„Să slujim lui Dumnezeu cu toată mulțumirea!” O analiză din perspectivă social-filantropică a Tainei Sfântului Maslu

Author(s): Ovidiu Soare / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2012

The Sacrament of Holy Unction is the Sacrament of healing our souls and bodies. The fact that this sacrament is present today in our society proves that it fulfills its purpose for which it was ordained, which is the healing. An analysis of social and philanthropic perspective of this Sacrament reveals that our healing comes from God, the Greatest and the Highest, for us not to be healthy in order to fulfill our selfish individual desires, but for a higher purpose, which is to living respecting His commandments, because when we do not, we mocks us, the evil and when we do, we serve God with all thankfulness.

„SCARA IUBIRII DIVINE”, UN TEXT MISTIC ȘI CATEHETIC AL LITERATURII SPIRITUALE MEDIEVALE

Author(s): Constantin Valer Necula / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

Early knowledge of medieval literature, not only in Latin, it transfers you into a heaven of peace. No wonder that out of such springs came out the wholemethodology of the famous lectio divina (see Mario Masini) from which we still feed alarge part of modern communication methods. Scala divini amoris is such a challengefor the modern reader. Preserved in a manuscript Egerton 945 in the British Library inLondon, the text is written in Occitan, unknown both to researchers in theology and toscholars from those specializing in Provencal. The manuscript Egerton 945 contains twomajor texts: Liber divinis amoris și De divina impletione.

„Sentire cum Ecclesia” - Arcybiskup Oscar Romero w ogniu podziałów

Author(s): Andrzej Dobrzyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2006

W filmie pt. Karol. Papież, który pozostał człowiekiem, w reżyserii G. Battiato, wprowadzono motyw abp. San Salwadoru Oscara Romero i jego spotkania z Janem Pawłem II. Wątek ten jest kluczem do nakreślenia w ekranizacji skomplikowanej sytuacji w Ameryce Łacińskiej. Kościół nie mógł pozwolić, by religia utraciła swe społeczne znaczenie na kontynencie ogarniętym przez skrajne podziały polityczne i ekonomiczne. Pragnął być „pierwszym, który reaguje na ludzkie nieszczęście” . Ale zadanie to było trudne i wymagało osobistej ofiary, co przedstawia scena rozmowy abpa Romero z Ojcem Świętym. Metropolita wyznał, że jest „wzięty w dwa ognie” podzielonego świata i kraju, a „uzbrojony tylko w Słowo i modlitwę”. The article Sentire cum Ecclesia Archbishop Romero caught between the fires of division: presents a clear picture of the difficult situation the Archbishop was involved in while ministering the war torn politically explosive Archdiocese of San Salvador (1977-1998) and the importance of maintaining his relationship with Rome. He lived his life between two burning fires: the cold war and the revolution, right and left wing factions, the unity of the Church and Liberation theology, and at the same time bearing within the strain of the dichotomy between the tendency for the mystic and his prophetic gift. The Archbishop was committed to put into practice the teaching of Vatican II, the social doctrine of the Church, and to the documents written by the Latin American Bishops in the conferences of Medellin (1968) and Puebla (1979). Paying attention to the circumstances of the Archdiocese and to the needs of Salvadorian society as a whole, Romero searched for solutions, taking into account his conscience and the Magisterium of the Church, while living a deeply spiritual life. His Episcopal motto, “To be of one mind with the Church” signifies his dedication and compassion with the suffering poor and disenfranchised, and the Church as an institution. Proof of this stems from always referring his feelings back to Rome and his dedication to the poor and persecuted. Even though it is not easy to draw any conclusions or make any judgments regarding Oscar Romero’s mission of the Church in the midst of the countries crisis, the article underlines the Historical-Ecclesiastical perspective that allows the avoidance of myths that continue to exist, in both liberal and conservative Catholic surroundings.

„Serce faraona” – odpowiedzialność osobista czy bezwolne poddanie się działaniu Boga?

Author(s): Janusz Lemański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article is carried out a thorough, exegetical and theological analysis of the theme “the heart of Pharaoh”, which repeatedly appears in the context of Exodus 3–14. In the author’s opinion it is crucial to understand the theological message contained in this narration. The relationship between man’s free will and sovereign will of the Lord – the God of Israel, though present in the background of the story, is not a main theme of consideration. The aim of the biblical authors was rather to show that how God operates within the history and how His action relates to the historical experience of Israel in contact with the great powers of this world. This “political theology” also contains an instruction directed to individuals. Each “stubborn” human heart, sooner or later, will bring negative consequences for those who do not read in time marks given to him by God and for those who wishes to oppose His will.

„Skazani” na islam? Rémi Brague i obrona cywilizacji łacińskiej

Author(s): Przemysław Artemiuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Rémi Brague combines philosophical thought with the current analysis of the situation in Europe. He sees Islam as primarily legal system, demanding absolute obedience to Allah and his Prophet – Muhammad. In view of the crisis of European identity, the French philosopher proposes a return to the Latin tradition. He understands it as Romanity, which adopted the heritage of Athens and Jerusalem, and then forwarded it to the peoples living in the Empire.

„Skok wiary” w Lutrowej nauce o usprawiedliwieniu

Author(s): Rajmund Porada / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 17/2017

The article presents Luther’s teaching on justification by faith and its theological implications. In the doctrine of justification, the Reformer of Wittenberg found a way to free itself from doubts about salvation, concluding that not deeds and confession of sins before God, but only faith makes righteousness before God. Luther’s new perspective on the relation of man to God can be called a “leap of faith”. According to the Father of the Reformation, faith itself is enough for being sure of one’s own salvation. In this view, faith is identified with salvation. The basis of Luther’s conception of faith lies in his theological anthropology and its implications have become evident in ecclesiology.

„Słownik polskich teologów katolickich”, t. 9 (1994-2003), red. Józef Mandziuk, Warszawa 2006, ss. 771

Author(s): Józef Mandziuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14-15/2008

„Służ mi i bądź nieskazitelny (…)” (Rdz 17:1) – obrzezanie w Biblii Hebrajskiej jako usunięcie skazy

Author(s): Jakub Pogonowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 45/2019

The purpose of this article is to describe circumcision in the Hebrew Bible as a ritual performed to remove a blemish. The stress has been put on showing the relationship between the literal and metaphorical meaning of circumcision and its theological consequences. The paper includes an analysis of various Hebrew Bible verses pertaining to circumcision and containing related lexemes in various contexts. The analysis shows that the concept of circumcision in the Hebrew Bible presumes that lack thereof – in the literal as well as metaphorical sense – constitutes a blemish, which renders it impossible to fulfil one’s purpose or function.

„Spełniłem swój święty obowiązek”. Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata ks. Wincenty Mieczysław Zawadzki (1894–1975)

Author(s): Maria Misztal / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

Among people honoured by the Yad Vashem Institute with the Righteous Among the Nations medal, the largest group consists of the Poles. One of them was rev. Mieczysław Zawadzki, for many years the parish priest of the Holy Trinity Parish in Będzin. As early as in the first days of September 1939, he saved the lives of many Jews and continued to help them in the subsequent years. Several years after the war, the saved ones contacted the priest and corresponded with him on a regular basis until his death in 1975. This article presents the circumstances that led to rev. Mieczysław Zawadzki’s involvement in helping the Jews of Będzin, placing him among the Righteous Among Nations. Moreover, the text briefly describes his pastoral and social work in the light of the anti – church policy of the Polish People’s Republic authorities.

„Sprawiedliwy” według Ez 18

Author(s): Jan Jachym / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/1997

The prophet Ezekiel presents to the exiles, in chapter 18 of his book, the socio-moral program in the new circumstances of life. In the example of the opposite: the righteous - the sinner, Ezekiel develops the thought: that both the father and the son will be responsible for the facts they committed. Recalling to the exiles, in the new conception, the content of the liturgical Torah, that the people heard judis in the door of the temple, the prophet uses the terms understandable terms to listeners. The just in respecting the religious and moral rules concluded in the will be responsible Law of the Holiness satisfies the will of Jahve who is Holy God. Such a man may hope to remain alive and to participate in the worship of the new temple.

„Stała pokusa wiary”. Współczesne bałwochwalstwo i jego geneza

Author(s): Janusz Królikowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

Looking at some reputedly religious phenomena in today’s world we could openly ask whether these phenomena don’t fall, in certain cases, into a category of a new kind of idolatry which means replacing God with a creature. It is the world of human sensations and experiences that should be especially taken into consideration, sensations and experiences which are often regarded as religious or which, in some cases, undergo the process of absolutisation, whereas this is only a kind of concentration on oneself or on a particular thing. It has been noticed quite accurately, that modern times can be characterised by a shift “from wooden idols to spiritual idols”. Therefore, there is an urgent need for philosophical and theological perspective on this broad sphere of experiences, and for a question whether those experiences create new idols and, by the same token, whether they are idolatrous in character. To answer these questions responsibly and coherently we have to define the origins of idolatry and concurrently find the appropriate criteria which will enable us to evaluate theologically respective phenomena which may appear questionable. This very issue constitutes the subject of this study.

„Stań się ogniem w Ogniu” – Duch Święty i jego działanie w człowieku w świetle pism bł. Marii Celeste Crostarosa (1696-1755)

Author(s): Joanna Pakuza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

“My Spirit, when seated in the righteous soul as on Its own throne, never is silent!” – wrote in her works the Italian nun Maria Celeste Crostarosa, founder of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer. In her work, she presented a very active vision of the Holy Spirit’s action in the human soul, describing Its power with the help of the element of fire. The article presents the action of the Spirit in the life of the Blessed and the way in which she described it in her spiritual works, among others in her “Autobiography”, “Conversations of the soul with Jesus” and in “Steps of Prayer”.

„Staroobrzędowcy za granicą III. Historia. Religia. Język. Kultura”. Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej. Toruń 19-20.09.2016

Author(s): Angelika Pawlaczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

Conference report on an international scientific conference “Old Believers Abroad”, held in Toruń 19th-20th September 2016. The conference was devoted to various aspects of life of Old Believers’ communities outside Russia, as well as the problems of Old Believer emigration and general questions of Old Believerism.

„Sulle palme ti ho scolpito…” L’uso di Isaia 49,16a nel 2 Baruch 4,2.

Author(s): Jolanta Judyta Pudełko / Language(s): English,Italian Issue: 61/2/2014

The interpretation of the biblical books started already in the Bible itself, in which one can easily notice the plethora of quotations, allusions to and echoes of other biblical texts. This study analyzes theQUOTATION of Isaiah 49:16a found in the apocryphal Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch. By analyzing the immediate context of this verse in the Book of Isaiah, its form and historical background, the meaning of the text within its original context is reveled. Then a similar analysis applies to the form and the historical context of this verse within its new context, namely in 2 Baruch 4:2. The confrontation yields a significant number of possible interpretations and applications of this Isaianic text within its new context.

„Sutry Jezusa” – pierwsze syntezy chrystologiczne Dalekiego Wschodu

Author(s): Dariusz Klejnowski-Różycki / Language(s): English,Polish,Chinese Issue: 19/2019

Artykuł prezentuje badania dotyczące zabytkowych „dokumentów nestoriańskich” zwanych „Sutrami Jezusa”, które powstały podczas pierwszej misji Kościoła Wschodu do Chin w VII w. pod przewodnictwem Alopena. Teksty te są syntezą chrystologii oraz elementów teologii chrześcijańskiej istotną z punktu widzenia misji w Chinach. Opisują dogmaty chrześcijańskie za pomocą taoistycznej i buddyjskiej terminologii, filozofii, antropologii, kosmologii i symboliki. Są świadectwem rozwoju Kościoła w Chinach w ciągu trzech wieków za panowania dynastii Tang. „Sutry Jezusa” są odpowiedzią na pytanie: Co i w jaki sposób opowiedział Kościół o Jezusie Chrystusie po raz pierwszy Dalekiemu Wschodowi? Większość omawianych tekstów odkryta została w 1900 r. i jest przedmiotem badań teologów i sinologów głównie japońskich, chińskich i amerykańskich. Jednocześnie badania te zupełnie są nieznane w polskiej myśli teologicznej. Artykuł przedstawia pełną listę tych dokumentów, proponując polską nazwę oraz krótkie ich omówienie jako przyczynek do dalszych badań nad nimi. Wśród „Sutr Jezusa” na szczególną uwagę zasługuje kamienna Stela z Xi’an z wyrytym tekstem doktrynalno-historycznym, istotnym także z punktu widzenia rozwoju doktryny chrześcijańskiej w Chinach. Wnioski podkreślają wagę studiowania teologii nieeuropejskich kodowanych w innych systemach kultury i filozofii oraz pewne możliwości przekazu chrześcijańskiej doktryny także w symbolice innych religii (taoizm, buddyzm) z zachowaniem istoty doktryny chrześcijańskiej.

„Szlachetne milczenie” we wczesnym buddyzmie

Author(s): Krzysztof Kosior / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

According to the Pāli Canon scriptures, keeping silent was a daily practice of the monks from the congregation founded and presided over by Buddha. The article refers to the events and situations in which Buddha and his disciples refrain from speaking. In particular, the attention is focused on two ways of cultivating the so-called ‘noble silence.’ The fi rst one is characteristic of monks not speaking while staying in a group, while the second is an element of the concentration which determines the progress in meditation, as well as accomplishment of freedom from suffering.

„Taka otóż chwilka”. Stan duchowy człowieka a jego percepcja rzeczywistości w powieści Bracia Karamazow F. Dostojewskiego

Author(s): Urška Zabukovec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2011

W powieści Bracia Karamazow można w zależności od stanu duchowego człowieka odróżnić dwie przeciwstawne percepcje rzeczywistości: „percepcję zewnętrzną” oraz „percepcję w ukryciu”. Iwan Karamazow będąc w grzesznym stanie duchowym (pragnie śmierci ojca) za pomocą rzekomo pięknej idei o moralnej sprawiedliwości i zadośćuczynieniu wciąga brata Aloszę w „demoniczną eucharystię” i doprowadza go do buntu przeciwko Bogu. Alosza zapomina o niepojętości Bożej istoty, co powoduje zmianę jego percepcji rzeczywistości. Bohater wciąga Boga w sieć relacji czysto ludzkich, opartych na regule wzajemności i żąda od Niego „dowodów materialnych”. W świecie Dostojewskiego możliwa jest metanoia. Dokonuje się ona niespodziewanie i uwarunkowana jest gotowością otwarcia się człowieka na podarowaną mu łaskę.

„Tam, gdzie podążał Szymanowski, zmierzam i ja”

Author(s): Teresa Malecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2013

There has been no greater contrast of personality, biography, worldview, and lifestyle. And yet there is no end to similarities, proximities, even kinship; great was Górecki’s fascination with Szymanowski. First was the score of Beethoven’s Ninth, bought for the money earned by selling a ping-pong racket; but Górecki then spent his first savings on Chopin’s Impromptus and Szymanowski’s Mazurkas. He would recount later: “I still have these scores, and that is how my strange story begins: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Chopin’s Impromptus and Szymanowski’s Mazurkas.”28 Yet apart from Górecki’s fascination with Szymanowski music and oeuvre, there is another link still. Both artists fell in love with Podhale, the Tatra Mountains and the culture of the region; so much that its main spa, Zakopane, became their second home. This went hand in hand with their fascination with the music of Podhale. The focal point for Szymanowski’s impact on Górecki brings together two masterpieces of sacred music: Stabat Mater and Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Stabat Mater is one of Szymanowski’s few religious works; Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs are one of the many sacred works written both before and after the Symphony. Yet they are both instances of the highest artistry, of the apogee in their author’s creative achievements. Outside explicit examples of correlation between the work of Szymanowski and Górecki, there is an analogy between them of a more general nature. Taking into account the historical situation in which the two composers lived and worked, and the meanders of Polish music of the 20th centuries, the stylistic breakthrough that took place both in Szymanowski – before his Stabat Mater – and in Górecki – before his Third Symphony – was of tantamount import to establish their rank and their position in the history of Polish music.

„Taptybė tarsi sala“: Anglijos lietuvių akademinio jaunimo atvejis

Author(s): Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 100/2019

This article examines the cultural and religious identity expressed by the Lithuanian academic youth in the prestigious universities of England. Drawing on the theoretical background of the anthropologists E. Gellner and T. H. Eriksen, particular attention is given to the concept of identity. The analysis of cultural and religious identity is based on the ethnographic fieldwork of the author in England and Lithuania in 2017. The study reveals that the identity of Lithuania academic youth in England is like an „island“ hanging between several continents, where they “feel at home everywhere, but at the same time anywhere“. The analysis of the cultural identities of Lithuanian students and graduates in England emphasis a mixture of identities of several strata – city dweler, ethnographic representative, national, European, international citizen. The importance of religious idendity among academic Lithuanian youth in England was made by an empirical survey. In the three groups of prestigious university students and graduates, the vast majority were atheists, Roman Catholics, and agnostics. Some of the answers revealed undefined religious identities.

„Teologia paruzyjna” jako przełom w eschatologii chrześcijańskiej

Author(s): Łukasz Pondel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 44/2019

Scholarship does not like rapid changes. The current proposal thus fits into the modeling understanding of theological treatises in an integrated manner. The aim is not to initiate a Copernican revolution, but to attempt an integrated look at eschatology with the help of “parousian theology” (sic!). The proposed focus, after a more detailed development, may lead to a breakthrough in eschatology. The methodology rightly “suggests” that, as in every theological field, the first steps should be towards the foundation of Christian faith, that is, the Word of God. Following this, we should look at the current ways of understanding eschatology, looking for integrating connections. It will be shown that “parousian theology”, by its very definition, allows a bridge to be built between the present and the future, bringing out two paths to light, and at the same time two senses in which such theology may be practised: an eschatological and a Christological sense. For these two paths to combine, it is necessary to examine these senses in “parousian theology” (praesentia and adventus, as two Greek definitions of παρουσία). It is many years since Marie-Joseph Lagrange tried to connect these paths, dividing the eschatic times into two eons. The Lagrange concept allows “parousian theology” to build a bridge between the present and the future and vice versa. Will the idea of “parousian theology” become a Copernican breakthrough in eschatology?