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Zagrożenia duchowe uniwersytetu
University Spiritual Threats

Author(s): Jan K. Miczyński
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: spiritual life; spirituality; university; student; professor; science; threat; humanities; culture

Summary/Abstract: Originally, the role of the university was to create a community of professors and students, whose goal was to learn the truth and shape life according to it. The university’s paradigm included human personal development  intellectual, volitional, moral, emotional  culminating in spiritual life. Today, various processes can be observed that propose a change to this earlier model. They embrace man himself in a reductionist manner or strive to “use” the university for its own particular purposes. All this means that the spiritual development of human society, including thanks to university culture, he is often at risk. Thus, the spectrum of anti-intellectualism, anti-culture, anti-humanism and anti-religion appears on the horizon of history. Many contemporary authors see an unsafe process. This article is a proposal to name these threats and systematize them, as well as to search for answers to the disturbing modern signs of the times. The hermeneutic key to these considerations, however, is the understanding of man as a person conical in the image and likeness of the Personality of Godhead.

  • Issue Year: 66/2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish