Charakterystyka i pochodzenie demonów rodzaju żeńskiego w Testamencie Salomona

Author(s): Wojciech Kardyś / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The pseudoepigraphical Testament of Solomon presents highly developed demonology. Among the evil spirits, who arrive and appear in the presence of king Solomon, there are also the female demons: Onoskelis, Obyzouth and Enepsigos. The category by itself is the group of seven evil spirits who have feminine designations. The characterization and provenance of the female demons, mentioned in our pseudoepigraghic writing – this is a subject of the article.

Analiza egzegetyczna wypowiedzi św. Pawła Apostoła „jeden drugiego brzemiona noście” (Ga 6,2) w kontekście Ga 6,1–5

Author(s): Tadeusz Knut / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The present article contains the exegetical analysis of the text from the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians: “Bear one another’s burdens” (Gal 6:2). In four points there are discussed the general issues of the translation, criticism, as well as the literary and exegetical analysis of the text. The paraneasis of Galatians 6:2 appears in the context of freedom and love which are the fruit of the Spirit and which the true Christian should follow in one’s behaviour. St. Paul’s statement from Galatians 6:2 is an incentive directed to all to bear one another’s burdens and, together with the sinner, to lean over his sin and to help him to overcome it, so that his conversion may take place. The term ‘burden’ indicates a weight in a moral sense. Burdens, therefore, are the sins in which every man falls. Reciprocal help is a protection from the moral downfall and a concern for one’s neighbour’s salvation. It is a definition of an interpersonal solidarity as well as the imitation of Christ and the fulfilment of Christ’s law whose essence is the love of the neighbour.

Rdz 1,1–2,3 na nowo odczytane? Czyli pytanie o to, czy możliwe jest nowe spojrzenie na kapłański opis stworzenia?

Author(s): Janusz Lemański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The article presents new exegetical and literary criticism proposals regarding the interpretation of Genesis 1,1,2,3. The author suggests to link them together and asks for the possibility of a new perspective to interpret the passage. Looking at Genesis 1 with the account of these new proposals enables us to read the text in a new way. Nevertheless, not all new suggestions are acceptable. The purely functional interpretation of the creation (J. Walton) is not confirmed in exegesis.

Ekumeniczna koncepcja Ukraińskiego Kościoła Greckokatolickiego

Author(s): Arkadiusz Trochanowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Eastern Catholic Churches (ECC) are an integral part of the universal Church. The Decree about Catholic Eastern Churches ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ emphasizes that they have the same dignity in relation to each other and to the Latin Church. The actions of these churches on the field of ecumenism are determined by the documents of the Second Vatican Council: The Decree about Ecumenism ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ and The Decree about Catholic Eastern Churches ‘Unitatis Redintegratio’. ECC Churches also have the right and duty to help the Holy See to understand the Christian East in search of the lost unity. These churches are responsible for cooperating with Orthodox Churches because of their common spiritual heritage. The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church prepared a document in the interest of the best possible relations with fraternal Christians. The mentioned document is entitled ‘The ecumenical concept of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’ (UGCC). It was published on 23 December 2015 and its legal force took on 23 February 2016. The concept has been approved for five years. The idea broadly describes the issues that are the source of the UGCC. The document is very critical to the historical processes, which on the one hand, hindered the development of UGCC and on the other hand posed a threat of losing its own identity. The ecumenical concept of the UGCC shows openness to dialogue with Orthodox Churches in particular in the Ukraine and emphasizes the need to unite the Christians, who are the heirs of St. Vladimir baptism. In the end of the ecumenical concept of the UGCC the authors state that the revival of faith in the Ukraine will take place through the renewal of the Church of Kiev in one Patriarchate in union with the Roman Pontiff and with the other particular Churches.

Prężność osobowości i jej rola w procesach radzenia sobie ze stresem

Author(s): Adam Falewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

This article is an attempt to show the sources and ways of understanding resiliency in the field of psychology. Firstly there are shown various approaches of understanding resiliency. Subsequently paper presents a distinction between resiliency (as a personality trait) and resilience (as a process). Following part gives a description of a resilient personality. Finally resiliency is shown as a resource for coping.

Komunikacja interpersonalna drogą do chrześcijańskiego braterstwa

Author(s): Anita Żurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The article presents the issue of Christian brotherhood. The theological understanding of brotherhood has been shown as the communion with God and having its source in the act of creation. Man created in the image and likeness of God participates in the communion with God, as well as in the communion of people. In the latter communion an important role is played by psychological processes, including the conditions of interpersonal communication. The last part of the article presents a mature interpersonal communication as a crucial condition of creating communion and mutual brotherhood.

Liberalizm a dobro wspólne

Author(s): Karol Jasiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The article concerns to the relation between liberalism and the concept of the common good. First, the theses of the theory of liberalism were presented, which essential feature is proceduralism (social justice is based on neutrality towards good and contractual rules). On this background, it was shown that an important feature of the state does not have to be neutral, because it leads to the problems in resolving some important issues, such as abortion and marriage. In addition, human life and the right functioning of the state should assume any recognition of the common good. The article mentions four of its ideas: liberal (the common good is the realization of individual freedom), the Aristotelian-Thomistic (the common good is to develop a rational and free potentiality of human nature), Communitarian (associated with Aristotle, but it rather emphasizes the social aspect, such as A. MacIntyre, Ch. Taylor, M. Walzer, A. Etzioni) and the concept of J. Locke (the common good is to maintain life, freedom and ownership of individual persons).

Rola sprawiedliwej płacy w kształtowaniu wolności odpowiedzialnej człowieka

Author(s): Janusz Szulist / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The issue of a fair wage is the object of the social teaching of the Church. Appropriate remuneration means meeting the demands arising from the principle of justice and the universal destination of goods. In each of these principles the first criterion for the use of normative order is the person in terms of his natural and supernatural vocation. The fundamental relationship between wage systems and human freedom has been pointed out in this article. Goods gained as a result of good work enable every person to deeply experience their own subjectivity. As a part of the making processes fundamental choices concerning liability for others have been made. Finally, a salary allows the development dynamics to be fulfilled which direction is determined by a human who take into consideration both his own abilities and the relationship with the divine order. The documents of the social teaching of the Church were the main resources in writing the article. The critical analysis of the text was used as the study method.

Zakony i instytuty życia konsekrowanego w dokumentach archiwów kościelnych diecezji koszalińsko-kołobrzeskiej

Author(s): Tadeusz Ceynowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

The Koszalin-Kolobrzeg (Kołobrzeg) Diocese was established in 1972. A diocesan archive was established 40 years later and the diocese documents have been collected since then. Religious congregations took a burden to work among the resettled population in the Western and Northern territories after 1945. All documents relating to their ministry can be found in two churches and diocese archives, and as well in the Bishop’s Curia.

Ludobójstwo w Ponarach – obraz zbrodni w świetle relacji Kazimierza Sakowicza i Heleny Pasierbskiej cz. 1

Author(s): Joanna Janusiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

This article addresses the truth, almost non-existent in the social awareness, about the genocide committed by the Germans and Lithuanians in 1941–1944 in Ponary. The first part of the publication describes the genesis of the Polish-Lithuanian conflict on the eve of World War II, as well as the situation of Poles in the Vilnius region in the months following occupation. On the basis of Diary by Kazimierz Sakowicz and a study by Helena Pasierbska, the author presents an enormous crime, whose victims included approximately 70 thousand Jews and over 20 thousand Poles killed by Lithuanian shaulists.

Marek Szulakiewicz, Poszukiwania metafizyczne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2014, ss. 248

Author(s): Marcin Napadło / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Studia soborowe tom II, cz. druga: Historia i recepcja Vaticanum II, red. M. Białkowski, Toruń 2015, ss. 856

Author(s): Jan Radkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Recenzja książki Polskie drogi do wolności. Kronika parafii Świętej Rodziny w Pile 6 października 1978 – 18 czerwca 1989, wybór, wstęp i opracowanie Jarosław Wąsowicz SDB, Piła 2015, ss. 276

Author(s): Grzegorz Wejman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej Małżeństwo i rodzina w nauczaniu i duszpasterskiej praktyce Kościoła, Koszalin, 16 kwietnia 2016

Author(s): Janusz Bujak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Sprawozdanie z sesji popularnonaukowej Działalność zakonów, zgromadzeń i instytutów życia konsekrowanego na terenie diecezji koszalińsko-kołobrzeskiej, Koszalin, 28 listopada 2015

Author(s): Tadeusz Ceynowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2016

Osoba Jezusa Chrystusa istotą eschatologii chrześcijańskiej

Author(s): Janusz Bujak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2015

The aim of the article The Christian teaching and practice in anticipation of Parusia is to show the most important elements of Christian eschatology in a context of errors like millenarism or setting the exact date of the end of the world. In reality, Christians don’t expect the end of the world – something – but the return of Someone, of Jesus Christ, who comes to bring us the ultimate salvation.

Komunia Święta na sposób Wiatyku

Author(s): Robert Kaszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2015

The specificity of the Holy Communion in the way of Viaticum is receiving Him in the most decisive yet delicate moment of life, for example at the moment of passing from this world into eternity or at least in the short perspective of this moment. Giving and receiving Holy Communion as Viaticum is one of the oldest traditions of the Church. The faithful should receive Viaticum in any danger of death. Not only priests should take care of the fulfillment of this obligation, but also the faithful himself and his family and relatives. In the case of any pastoral and legal concerns the salvation of souls should be the most important so the problem should be always resolved in favour of the faithful.

Zbawczy charakter misterium Bożego Narodzenia. Próba prezentacji dynamicznej wizji wcielenia

Author(s): Bogdan Kulik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2015

Although the work of salvation of man by Jesus Christ reached its climax in His passion, death and resurrection, it began on the reception of human nature by the Son of God. It is witnessed in the Holy Scripture and Tradition which teach that the main objective of the salvific action is to liberate the man from sin and restore him to the fullness of life. Since the destructive powerof sin reveals itself in: 1) breaking off the relationships with God, 2) death, 3) a loss of the meaning of life. These three specific consequences of sin relates to the salvific action of God inthe act of the Incarnation. Salvation has got a dual aspect: it is bestowing the good (the positive aspect) and liberating from the evil (the negative aspect). As a result, the Incarnation of theSon of God includes: 1) offering one’s presence and liberating from loneliness, 2) offering life and liberating from death, 3) offering hope and liberating from meaninglessness. Christmasis the right moment to spread this truth. This celebration ought to be a special occasion to reflect deeply upon the mystery of the liberating meeting of man with God in the newly-born Emmanuel.

Błogosławiona Dziewica Maryja Matka Boga w misterium Kościoła. W pięćdziesiątą rocznicę Konstytucji Dogmatycznej o Kościele „Lumen Gentium”

Author(s): Andrzej Proniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2015

Mariology was formed in the Church through the centuries. Mary’s Motherhood initiated from the Incarnation was not only limited to the outright relation with Jesus, but also has embracedthe whole Church community – the Mystical Body of Christ. It has an impact on the believers and shows Mary’s exceptional role in the history of redemption. The article refers to the characteristic Mariology aspects related to three different times: before the Vatican Council II, during it – all the thoughts have been written in the chapter VIII of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, and in a postcouncil theology. The discourse before the council saw Mary leading to the concept of Christ and Mary Ecclesia in which it emphasized her similarity to Christ’s role and the Church prototype (1). The Fathers Council put the Mariology issue in the mystery of Christ and the Church. They made Mary as someone who played an irreplaceable role in the relation to Christ, both historical and mysterious. Moreover, being the Mother of God she is also the spiritual Mother of all who build the Church – the Mystical Body of Christ (2). The postcouncil thoughts about Mary reflect on the existential attitude of all believers and make them more aware of being new to respect life, a woman’s dignity and the family value itself as the union between a woman and a man, and the place of a child’s natural growth (3).

Geneza i przegląd psychologicznych koncepcji mądrości

Author(s): Adam Falewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2015

This article is an attempt to show the sources and ways of understanding wisdom in the field of psychology. Firstly wisdom is depicted as a phenomenon that has got its source and a specificway of understanding in the philosophy and theology. Subsequently paper presents a history of the development of the concept of wisdom in psychology. Next part refers to selected conceptsof wisdom proposed by leading authors such as Sternberg, Baltes and Labouvie-Vief. This background allows to present Ardelt’s Three Dimensional Wisdom Theory in which wisdom is a understood as a combination of cognitive, reflective and emotional (compassionate) components.