Biskup jako pasterz w tekstach liturgii słowa w obrzędach święceń biskupich

Author(s): Marcin Papuziński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

The Bible has a fundamental place in the theological reflection on the bishop’s role in the Church. Selected biblical readings read during liturgy, are not only the word of God, but also clarify meaning of the celebration and of the reality manifested during different liturgical actions of the Church. For this reason, while reflecting on the pastoral mission of the bishop, it is worthwhile to analyze the readings of the liturgy of the word selected for the rite of ordination of bishops. In this study, due to the large number of proposed readings, only some examples have been analyzed (two taken from the OT, and eight from the NT). The analysis, in the light of word of God, shows both the bishop’s role as pastor and the meaning of his ministry. As pastor the bishop is primarily a proclaimer of the Good News and protector of the faithful entrusted to him. His entire pastoral service must follow the example of the true Good Shepherd — Jesus Christ (cf. J 10,11).

Druga edycja Lekcjonarza Mszalnego

Author(s): Anna Pleskaczewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

Since the proclamation of the word of God is an important element of the liturgical celebration, the Mass Lectionary is considered one of the chief liturgical books. The paper consists of three parts in which it attempts to show the genesis of lectionaries. The first part shows the history of the development of lectionaries. At first, the word of God celebrated during the liturgy was read from the Bible. With time, sets of Gospel periscopes, and later lectionaries, were created. Euchological readings and texts were also combined in one book. The second part of the paper describes the work of the Committee for the Implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s Reform. The Committee’s task was to divide a Missal into two books, namely a sacramentary and a lectionary. The article also presents the Committee’s work on the choice of pericopes which were to be included in the Roman version of the Mass Lectionary, as well as efforts to create the first Polish edition of the Mass Lectionary, the task commissioned by Primate Wyszyński. The final part of the paper shows the works on the second edition of the Mass Lectionary. In addition to a new, extended introduction, a series of alterations have been made in the lectionary. The passages in the Mass Lectionary come from Biblia Tysiąclecia (5th edition). The language of the readings has been revised and updated, and a new spelling of religious vocabulary words has been included. Some acclamations and responsorial psalms have also been changed. The second edition of the Mass Lectionary has been adopted to the Ordo Lectionum Missae guidelines of 1981.

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.

“There can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology” (LS 118). Which man can take care of our common home?

Author(s): Alberto Piola / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2016

One of the underlying thesis of Laudato si’ is the close link between anthropology and ecology. Pope Francis calls for an ecological conversion, which involves an adequate anthropology based on an authentic interpretation of man’s creation in God’s likeness. Only the man who sees himself and acts as guardian, and not as a tyrant, can take care of our common home.

Библейские реминисценции в пьесах Ивана Вырыпаева Июль и Бытие №2

Author(s): Elena Kurant / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2013

The article makes an attempt to analyze the writing strategy of one of the leading representative of the contemporary literary process: the dramatist, actor, film and theater director Ivan Vyrypaev (based on his mono-drama July and drama Genesis 2). The text of the Bible has been part of literary discourses for centuries. It also appears in the works of Ivan Vyrypaev: as reminiscences and paraphrases, or as the principles of Semitic rhetoric in the plays (reflected in poetic parallelism, para-taxis, etc.). This method is not only a sign of the author’s formal researches, but also imposes the principles of ‘involved reading’ on the audience. This kind of subjective and even subversive reading of the Bible seems to be part of contemporary culture, which seeks to re-explore the metaphysics of the modern world through intuitive exploration of religious experience. In the works of Vyrypaev, the Bible is a cultural concept deeply rooted in the realities of everyday life. Thus, Vyrypaev plays a game with tradition, which oscillates between the categories of privacy and versatility in the attempts to rediscover humanity in the modern world.

Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus, the Psalm 42 (41): artistic interpretations and imagery

Author(s): Rosângela Aparecida da Conceição / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This article presents the analysis of the artistic interpretationsand the imaginary representations of Psalm 41 (42), present in the motif ofthe chained deer that was represented in the ecclesiastical textiles of theCathedral of Brandenburg, dating from the third quarter of the 14th century,with reproductions executed in the second half of the 19th century and thebeginning of the 20th century, with some copies in the Historical andArtistic Collection of the Venerable Third Order of Saint Francis ofPenance of the City of São Paulo (VOTSFPCSP) and the Collection of theSão Bento Monastery in São Paulo. In addition to textiles, we have theanalysis of the Wilton diptych (c.1395-9), belonging to the NationalGallery of London, as well as the relief on the altar of the Chapel of theBlessed Sacrament of the Abbey Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption.Our analysis has as a theoretical basis 'The Commentaries on the Psalms'of Saint Augustine (1997), the work of Albert Rouet (1994) that deals withthe relation between art and liturgy, methodology for the study of the imageand its uses by Bock (1859 ), EH Gombrich (2012a, 2012b) and Panofsky(1990, 1995), with the support of the study in heraldry by William Berry(1828).

Kształt edytorski postylli polskich XVI i XVII wieku – w poszukiwaniu staropolskich konwencji wydawniczych

Author(s): Magdalena Komorowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3 (36)/2015

In 16th and 17th century Poland-Lithuania, vernacular postils, both Protestant and Catholic, were a powerful vehicle for religious reform and a useful tool in the confessional conflict. Between 1556 and the end of the 17th century, over forty editions of various postils (some of them multivolume) were printed. Together, they constitute one of the largest groups of surviving old-Polish publications connected by genre and published in the vernacular to reach a wider audience. For these reasons they are an excellent material for scholars interested in the development of the form of the Polish printed book. The paper begins with rectification of some widespread yet misleading convictions about Polish postils. Results of the author’s bibliographical research allows her to prove that Polish postils should not be associated with Reformation only, but rather should be seen as a universal instrument of confessional polemic and pastoral aid. The main body of the article focuses on the development and changes of the form of Early Modern Polish postils. Because of the similarities of structure and purpose of these publications, the author is able to compare solutions chosen by different printers in terms of format, layout, illustrations, title-page composition, etc. Focusing on the most infl uential volumes printed in Kraków, she presents how Polish printers adapted German book designs and introduced new patterns later on. Based not only on the analysis of postils themselves, but also on surviving correspondence and other archival materials, the author sheds some light both on the circumstances of production and on the author’s and the reader’s role in shaping the form of the postil as a book. The question of using typography and illustration to attract Catholic readers to Protestant postils and vice versa is also raised. Analysis of the material prompts the author to the conclusion that the printing craft was above religious divisions.

Pasja Chrystusa – kaznodziejskie renarracje

Author(s): Wojciech Ryczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3 (36)/2015

Męka i śmierć Chrystusa na krzyżu – od modlitwy w ogrodzie Oliwnym (Getsemani), aż po złożenie martwego ciała Pana do grobuto temat najdłuższej i najbardziej szczegółowej narracji u każdego z czterech ewangelistów. Dramatyczne wydarzenia, które rozegrały się wówczas w Jerozolimie i jej okolicach, odmieniły nie tylko losy uczniów Chrystusa, ale okazały się również momentem przełomowym w historii Odkupienia, przynosząc upadłej ludzkości nadzieję pojednania z miłosiernym Stwórcą. Opisane z różną dokładnością przez autorów Dobrej Nowiny i opowiadane po wielokroć w czasach pierwszych gmin chrześcijańskich stały się z czasem tematem kazań poświęconych w całości pobożnemu rozpamiętywaniu męczeńskiej śmierci Chrystusa. Wśród autorów narracji pasyjnych odnajdziemy apostołów, ojców Kościoła, a także wielu kaznodziejów opowiadających na nowo o wydarzeniach z Wielkiego Piątku i ukazujących ich znaczenie zarówno w kontekście ludzkiej egzystencji, jak i historii powszechnej.

„Wszyscy muszą nauczyć się milczenia” (fragmenty Listu apostolskiego Orientale lumen)

Author(s): Jan Paweł II / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

In the liturgical experience, Christ the Lord is the light which illumines the way and reveals the transparency of the cosmos, precisely as in Scripture. The events of the past find in Christ their meaning and fullness, and creation is revealed for what it is: a complex whole which finds its perfection, its purpose in the liturgy alone. This is why the liturgy is heaven on earth, and in it the Word who became flesh imbues matter with a saving potential which is fully manifest in the sacraments: there, creation communicates to each individual the power conferred on it by Christ. Thus the Lord, immersed in the Jordan, transmits to the waters a power which enables them to become the bath of baptismal rebirth.4 Within this framework, liturgical prayer in the East shows a great aptitude for involving the human person in his or her totality: the mystery is sung in the loftiness of its content, but also in the warmth of the sentiments it awakens in the heart of redeemed humanity. In the sacred act, even bodiliness is summoned to praise, and beauty, which in the East is one of the best loved names expressing the divine harmony and the model of humanity transfigured, appears everywhere: in the shape of the church, in the sounds, in the colors, in the lights, in the scents. The lengthy duration of the celebrations, the repeated invocations, everything expresses gradual identification with the mystery celebrated with one’s whole person. Thus the prayer of the Church already becomes participation in the heavenly liturgy, an anticipation of the final beatitude.

Stanisław Koziara, Szkice z polskiej frazeologii biblijnej, Łask 2015

Author(s): Bogdan Walczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2016

A Book Review

Ars Memorativa, Ars Oblivionis in Middle English Religious Plays

Author(s): Estella Ciobanu / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2015

This paper investigates the multi-layered violence of religious representation in the late medieval York biblical plays, with a focus on the Supper at Emmaus. I read Emmaus (Y40), a play which commemorates the Crucifixion and openly encourages strong anti-Judaism, alongside scenes in an early predecessor pageant, The Crucifixion (Y35), within their contemporary devotional and mnemonic practices, i.e. the confessional Book of Margery Kempe and Thomas Bradwardine‘s tract on ars memorativa. Emmaus in particular demonstrates how a fundamentally violent ars memorativa, the legacy of ancient rhetoric to the Middle Ages, also underpins the instruction of the laity in the basics of Christian faith, here with the aid of highly musical prosody and repetition, and thereby hones a biased, intolerant and violence-inured Christian collective memory. To study the York play‘s position relative to late medieval mnemonic practices, I frame my analysis within memory studies, enriched with the more specific insights offered by social-psychological, neurobiological and cognitivist studies of memory.

RECENZJA POLSKIEGO WYDANIA KSIĄŻKI D. SPERBERA I D. WILSON RELEVANCE. COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION

Author(s): Leszek Wroński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 32/2016

The review of: Relewancja. Komunikacja i poznanie by D. Sperber and D. Wilson; przeł. Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, Małgorzata Kata, Iwona Matyjas (rozdz. 1), Ewa Willim (rozdz. 2), Maria Jodłowiec (rozdz. 3), Małgorzata Majewska, Agnieszka Solska (rozdz. 4, posłowie), red. nauk. Maria Jodłowiec, Agnieszka Piskorska, Kraków: Tertium, 2011

Historia i pamięć w biblijno-liturgicznym przekazie katechetycznym w koncepcji Sofii Cavalletti

Author(s): Barbara Surma / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2012

The main topic raised in this article is Sofia Cavalletti’s idea of religious education, which is closely related to historical message and educates to understanding what memory in liturgy really means. The aim of the article is to present briefly theoretical basis of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for second and third level of religious education (children 6–12 years old). This approach is based on the method of signs and it introduces children to the history and memory of the Chosen People.

Teologia Arnolda z Villanova: między Biblią a polityką

Author(s): Bogusław Kochaniewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2011

Biblical interpretation of Arnold of Villanova manifests us not only a specific and particular current of exegesis within 14th century. He emphasised the idea of eschaton fullfilled, manifested through the history more and more clear and perfect. His exegesis, based on Joachim de Fiore’s work presented the Bible as an instrument of the historical knowledge. The Bible, interpreted in allegorical perspective, manifested the meaning of the events pasted and presents and future. In order that Bible could be always actual, it required miracles and apparitions, which would support and manifest extraordinary divine interventions within the history of the world. In Arnold’s opinion, the Bible, without miracles and mistical experiences, could lost its own meaning.

Откровение св. Иоанна Богослова среди православных славян и в южнославянской письменности

Author(s): Iva Trifonova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2016

The article focuses on the history of the Book of Revelation of St. John the Theologian among Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages. The aim is to present its place among the other biblical books, related to Cyril and Methodius’ literary tradition and follow its origin, its way of life and spreading in the Slavia Orthodoxa. The two main versions of the distribution of the book are presented – without interpretations and with the interpretations of St. Andrew of Caesarea, while the specifics of the basic versions of the book are also presented (East Slavonic and South Slavic versions with commentaries, Bosnian Cyrillic version, the earliest Serbian transcript, Croatian Glagolitic fragments, Bulgarian calendar version). An opinion has been expressed that a common initial translation is at the root of all these versions of the book, which was accompanied by interpretations, and probably made in Bulgaria at the end of 9th–10th C. Subsequently, it has been edited at different Times and in different locations, placed in the composition of different collections, or as a separate book.

Prezentari bibliografice

Author(s): Stelian Gomboş,Vasile Muntean,Cosmin Panțuru,Constantin Cilibia,Marius Florescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01-03/2017

Dokument Stolicy Apostolskiej w pół wieku po Nostra aetate

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

The latest document ot the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews, the fourth turn, is strictly theological. Taken in the four specific issues: (1) the importance of revelation (God's Word), (2) the relationship between the Old and New Testament/Covenant, (3) the relationship between the universality of salvation in Jesus Christ and saying that God's covenant with Israel has never been revoked, and (4) the task of evangelization of the Church in relation to Judaism. In addition, the document provides a brief overview of the impact of the Second Vatican Council declaration Nostra Aetate, determines the status of dialogue Catholic-Judaic and its objectives. The article is a critical commentary on the document and author a discussion on it.

Jono Bretkūno Postilės (1591) teksto istorija: perikopių redagavimo šaltiniai

Author(s): Ona Aleknavičienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 10/2008

In this article I make an effort to determine in what way and based on what Jonas Bretkūnas edited the text of the Bible (pericopes) that he took from Baltramiejus Vilentas’s Gospels and Letters (Evangelijos bei Epistolos, 1579; EE) and inserted before the sermons in his own Postilla (1591; BP). I analyze separately the corrections of the initial lines of pericopes. All this research is important for the understanding of Bretkūnas’s work with the process of preparing the text, and for the assessment of Bretkūnas’s attitudes towards the Bible text. My analysis leads to the following conclusions: (1) A fter Jonas Bretkūnas took pericopes from Baltramiejus Vilentas’s Gospels and Letters for his Postilla, he edited them in compliance with Martin Luther’s Bible (1546 or later editions; LB). Most of the additions, omissions, and changes that Bretkūnas made in BP are proof of a conscious and purposeful comparison with LB. (2) B retkūnas’s BP presented one more version of Lithuanian liturgical texts to society and added to the variety of Lithuanian Bible texts available at the time. The main direction of Bretkūnas’s work was to establish Luther’s Bible. Bretkūnas edited the places in the text that Vilentas had earlier translated from the Vulgate and from the Greek New Testament, and in this way diminished the number of passages of the text corresponding to those originals (he distanced his text farther from the Vulgate which was canonized by the Catholic Church). (3) Because of the conscious and purposeful changes, the texts of BP pericopes must be considered as a new edition of EE texts. Bretkūnas critically assessed every pericope of EE, he matched the translation to LB and more seldom to the Greek New Testament, and he searched for the optimal means to express the content of the original. Bretkūnas performed a philological analysis of Vilentas’s translation. Bretkūnas’s pericopes reflect not only Vilentas’s but also Bretkūnas’s mentality, knowledge of exegesis and ability to write well. (4) Similar parallel passages in BP and Bretkūnas’s Bible (BNT) are most often determined by the availability of synonyms in the Lithuanian language and should not be considered a result of BNT influence. I did not find any proof that Bretkūnas used other Lithuanian texts with pericopes from the Bible in editing the excerpts taken from EE. It was Vilentas who kept more to the traditional text. (5) Bretkūnas’s correction of the initial lines of the pericopes was evidently determined not by the translation originals but by the concept of the Bible excerpt as a liturgical text. This attests to the pragmatic competence of Bretkūnas.