Mądrość i dobroć w nowoczesności
Wisdom and goodness in modern times

Summary/Abstract: Scientific interests of Bishop dr. Adam Lepa focus on family as the environment of socialization and upbringing, and on the mass media. He is interested in both negative and positive effects of the media on the life of an individual, family and society, and in the first place, in how to use the media in a creative way and prepare, especially children and young people, to this task. These themes were discussed in 9 books (Pedagogika mediów [Media pedagogics] had 3 editions), 162 scientific articles in collective works and journals, 105 popular articles, 242 commentaries and 90 interviews in various magazines, he has published until 2007. In his works, he competently analyzes present social, family, educational, religious, moral, political and economic problems. He is one of the best known and most cited authors specializing in the area of propaganda and manipulation, as well as in the media pedagogics. He is author of the original theory of the media environment whose main components are the iconosphere and the logosphere; nowadays the iconospehere dominates over the logosphere, while they should remain in harmony. School and family have the best conditions to organize the logosphere, and they should be the first to prepare the young generation to make an appropriate use of the media. In his works, Bishop dr. Adam Lepa connects the theory and the practice. His scientific attainments has interdisciplinary character and closely connected with pedagogics, sociology, sociology of education, communication and journalism, ethics, pastoral theology. The works of Bishop dr. Adam Lepa make a great contribution to these subdisciplines. In his scientific research, Bishop dr. A. Lepa always shows concern for man, for man's ability to use the modern media competently and make them serve his development. Being a wise and good person, Bishop Lepa creates a „civilization of the future” based – in agreement with the thought of the Holy Father John Paul II – on the culture of love and peace.

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