Irenologia – chrześcijańska nauka o pokoju. Próba określenia kierunków badań z perspektywy protestanckiej

Author(s): Bogusław Tondera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2013

Protestant theology states that “Christian annunciation is essentially the message of peace, and theology, as an interpreter of Revelation, it must be peaceful in nature”. Nowadays peacekeeping doctrine in Polish Protestant theology was represented by Witold Benedyktowicz. The basis of the Christian irenology are the following statements: 1) war is a sin, 2) peace is a positive value, 3) peace for Christians is Christ; 4) peace among people is the result of the reconciliation of mankind with God, 5) peace is the normal state of things; 6) Christian peace service is a result of responsibility and represents penance, 7) commitment to the service of peace is a matter of a decision of faith; 8) the Church is the forerunner and promoter of peace; 9) there is no peace without unity of the mankind. Irenology the branch of theology can be seen as part of ecumenical theology and in Poland also as a kind of political theology.

Obywatel w państwie. Kilka uwag o typach ładu zbiorowego i społeczeństwie polskim

Author(s): Kazimierz Z. Sowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2012

In the paper the author singles out three types of social order, that is the way of a social organization from the political power point of view: 1) religious order, 2) masterful order, and 3) civil order. The basic form of the social order is the state. According to the author the main difference between, from one had, the first two types, and the third from the other, lies in different political relation between the government and the rank and file members of the state. In the case of the first two types – religious and masterful – all members, “citizens”, are subject to the state, whereas in the case of civil order – the state is subject to its citizens. Poland after demise of communism has developed apparently a civil state, but Polish civil society has been still rather weak. The author of the essay is searching for the roots of this weakness in the Polish history.

The Second Vatican Council and Today’s Roman Catholic Church in America

Author(s): Kamil Pindel / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Some Notes on Religion and Democratic Liberty

Author(s): Mark Blitz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

Religion and American Foreign Policy: Contesting the Obvious

Author(s): Spasimir Domaradzki / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

Enemies or Allies: Liberalism and Catholicism in Lord Acton’s Thought

Author(s): Christopher Lazarski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

The Place of Religion in the American Public Square: Christianity, Civil Religion, and the Enduring Contribution of Richard John Neuhaus

Author(s): Wilfred M. McClay / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

The Theological-Political Predicament of American Jewry

Author(s): Alan Mittleman / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2011

Chomejni i jego ideologiczna spuścizna

Author(s): Łukasz Kosowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2010

Obchody święta Aszury a procesy polityczne w Libanie

Author(s): Rachela Tonta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2009

Orientalism and Relationships between Islam and the West

Author(s): Abdulrahman Al-Salimi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

Religion and Politics in the Shining City: How the “Winthrop Message” Became the “Reagan Message”

Author(s): Richard Gamble / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2009

Building Better then They Knew: John Courtney’s Murray’s American, Catholic View of the True Foundation of Our Country

Author(s): Peter Augustine Lawler / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2009

Church and State: The Current Constitutional Debate in the USA

Author(s): Christopher Wolfe / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2008

Wolfe analyses the current understanding of two clauses contained in the 1st Amendment to U.S. Constitution concerning the relations between the church and the state: the clause that sets up the freedom of the creed (Free Exercise Clause) and the one prohibiting the establishment of state religion (Establishment Clause). On the basis of opinions of members of the Supreme Court, the author claims that the far-going interpretation of the latter clause, which provides the grounds for decisions resulting, among others, in bans on hanging the Decalogue in court buildings or performance of Christian nativity plays in schools, as contradictory to civil freedoms guaranteed in the first clause. For how can such prohibitions be reconciled with the freedom of public manifestation of religion? The problem goes beyond constitutional discourse. In their views of religion, the Founding Fathers followed rather Locke and his guarantee for religious freedom to the believing but not to atheists. The modern, liberal concept of constitutional law presented by the Supreme Court reads the notion of ‘religion’ along the lines of the Free Exercise Clause in a broader sense, as “various potential answers to the question of faith”, including the negation in the form of atheism or agnosticism.This far-reaching, ‘separatist’ interpretation of the 1st Amendment is motivated by the mistaken, as Wolfe believes, understanding of intentions of the Constitution’s authors. Most Supreme Court judges believe that any involvement of state structures on the side of religious or denominational institutions must inevitably lead to the establishment of social divides. This belief of the intellectual elites is the result of their specific outlook at religion, which is “not tainted by the acquaintance with numerous believers”. Actually, this separatist model is not only inconsistent with the tradition of the American nation but also a threat for the American democracy, whose power was perceived already by Tocqueville in the common moral foundations of citizens resulting from Christian faith.

Konferencja Naukowa i Wystawa Dokumentów poświęcona Konkordatom pomiędzy Polską a Stolicą Apostolską w 1925 i 1993 roku

Author(s): Jan Staszków / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2006

Konkordat z 1993 roku pomiędzy Stolicą Apostolską a Polską

Author(s): Janusz Stańczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2006

Konkordatowe i pozakonkordatowe gwarancje poszanowania niedzieli i dni świątecznych jako dni wolnych od pracy

Author(s): Zdzisław Zarzycki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2006

Muzułmańska chusta a idea laickości we współczesnej Francji

Author(s): Ilona Kielan-Glińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2004

Wizja życia politycznego współczesnych środowisk neopogańskich w Polsce

Author(s): Maciej Strutyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2008

Rodzimowierstwo polskie a życie publiczne po 1989 r. Próba szkicu

Author(s): Tomasz Szczepański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2008