Franc Grivec i słowiańska myśl zjednoczeniowa
Franc Grivec and the Slavic unificational idea

Summary/Abstract: Franc Grivec (1878–1963), Slovene theologian, Church historian and student of Slavonic languages and culture, was concerned with the philosophical and religious thought of Czech and Polish writers. He was particularly interested in these aspects of their writings that borrowed inspiration from the idea of Christian community of Slavonic nations. The tradition of Cyril and Methodius, developing in Moravia in the first half of the 20th century, with its international congresses and thematic book series, as well as the writings of O. Březina and Catholic modernists proved very close to Grivec's ideas. At the same time, Grivec won numerous adherents and supporters in the Czech academic circles (J. Vašica and F. Jemelka). At the beginning of the 20th century, Grivec frequently referred to works of Polish authors, acting both as a reviewer and a disseminator. He valued M. Morawski’s neoscholastic thought and early literary-philological writings of M. Zdziechowski, whom he valued for his idea of Slavonic communion and universal Polish messianism. Still, in Polish literature, Grivec is little known. Only one of his books has been translated into Polish and merely several notes about Grivec have appeared in journals. It was only in the ecumenical atmosphere after the Council of Churches that Grivec was presented in Poland – mainly thanks to L. Górka's papers – as a student and theoretician of the Christian unification idea.

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