Okrucieństwo wiary. Obrazy Boga w zbiorze Wiersze (1957) Aleksandra Wata
Cruelty of Faith. Images of God in the collection of Poems (1957) by Aleksander Wat

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the most important elements that make up the religious imagination of the author of Dziennik bez samogłosek – Aleksander Wat. The work is an analysis and interpretation of selected pieces of work from the first published volume of poems from 1957. Wat’s thought combines the tradition of Judaism and Christianity and includes the motives from both religions in his texts. References to Judaism include describing characters from the Old Testament and the understanding of faith as an event of God’s meeting with man. From Christianity, on the other hand, the author derives the depiction of God’s cruelty within the theme of Calvary, manifested in three areas: pain, received hope for posthumous relief and nothingness, and God’s indifference to the suffering of his creation. The reinterpretation of biblical threads and bold, maybe even the blasphemous rejection of the idea of the Resurrection reveal the apocryphal nature of Wat’s work. The non-canonical nature of the texts is also illustrated by the “non-canonical nature of faith”, which constantly balances on the border between trust and doubt. Questioning, rejecting faith, and suffering related to experiencing a relationship with God is caused by experiencing the cruelty of God, who in Christ is compassionate love, but in the Father - the executioner.

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