Robert Bellarmine’s Disputationes de controversiis Christianae Fidei as a Source of Commentaries in Jakub Wujek’s Translation of the Holy Writ: The Example of Augustyn Biesiekierski and Indirect Borrowings from Disputationes Cover Image

Disputationes de controversiis Christianae Fidei Roberta Bellarmina jako źródło komentarzy do Pisma Świętego przekładu Jakuba Wujka. Problematyka pośrednich zapożyczeń z Disputationes… na przykładzie Augustyna Biesiekierskiego
Robert Bellarmine’s Disputationes de controversiis Christianae Fidei as a Source of Commentaries in Jakub Wujek’s Translation of the Holy Writ: The Example of Augustyn Biesiekierski and Indirect Borrowings from Disputationes

Author(s): Tadeusz Rubik
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Jakub Wujek; Robert Bellarmine; Augustyn Biesiekierski; Bible; holy images;Biblical commentaries; intertextual relations

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper is dedicated to the issues of adapting the Biblical commentaries on idolatry and ‘entitled’ depictions—originally featured in Disputationes de controversiis Christianae Fidei published by Robert Bellarmine—for the purpose of Jakub Wujek’s endeavour to translate the Bible into Polish. A careful analysis has shown that at least four out of thirteen of the investigated commentaries are adaptations of Bellarmine’s considerations in the form of translations or paraphrases. Building upon this discovery, the author proceeds to the second part of the paper, where he poses a question about the possibility of there being an indirect reception of Bellarmine’s theological categories, which might have occurred in the discussed biblical commentaries. The problem is addressed by comparing Augustyn Biesiekier ski’s A Short Treatise on Adoration and Veneration of Sacred Images (the author made use of the Disputationes…, as proved by Piotr Krasny) and the content of respective commentaries.

  • Issue Year: 20/2018
  • Issue No: 1 (46)
  • Page Range: 85-120
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Polish