Bluźnierca czy heretyk?
Blasphemer or heretic?

Summary/Abstract: Apocalypsis cum Figuris, the last performance of Jerzy Grotowski, was considered blas- phemous. It was presented as such by Bishop Bronisław Dąbrowski, secretary of the Polish Epis- copal Conference, in confidential conversations with the secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party Central Committee Stanisław Kania and Minister Kazimierz Kąkol, head of the Office for Re- ligious Affairs. However, the Church did not go to formal accusation, only Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński condemned the work from the pulpit as pornographic. Jan Błoński belived this spec- tacle was not as tragic as the previous performances of the Laboratory Theatre, while Małgorzata Dziewulska saw it as a tragic variety of gnosis. The main character, The Simpleton, is anti-Church Christ, Christus in nobis, Christ acting in us. And that’s why Apocalypsis cum Figuris can be con- sidered not only blasphemous but also heretical, just as some of Czesław Miłosz’s writings. How- ever, the hierarchs of the Polish Church were not interested in Grotowski as a heretic — it was only the moral threads that outraged them in his work, which once again exposed the theological defi- ciency of Polish Catholicism and its obsession with sex.

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