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Radykalna ortodoksja jako suspended middle

Author(s): Sławomir Zatwardnicki / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The article addresses the central ideas of radical orthodoxy. It has been emphasised that the criticism of modern paradigms and rethinking of the Christian tradition connect with the radical return to orthodoxy. The main ideas behind the movement are presented in the form of a juxtaposition of affirmations of orthodox beliefs together with the dangerous consequences of their abandonment. The results of the departure from the concept of patricipation, which is central to radical orthodoxy, are shown with pointing to the heritage of John Duns Scotus that opens space for the misunderstood autonomy of creatures and the dangerous concept of natura pura. Reference was also made to the legacy of Henri de Lubac, which the supporters of the movement interpret most thoroughly and which they want to develop. The author of Surnaturel is also interested in the understanding of humanism and the relationship between theology and philosophy. Suspended middle, a term used by Hans Urs von Balthasar, which later became the title of John Milbanek’s book on de Lubac, seems to be the best self-characteristics of the movement. At the end of the article, the author puts forward a thesis that the authors’ call for radical orthodoxy towards post-conciliar Catholic theology can be compared to the contribution of the Second Council of Constantinople to Christology. In both cases, it is a matter of emphasising unity and rejecting all harmful ‘Nestorian’ duality.

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Eucharystia jako źródło i szczyt communio

Author(s): Karol Rasała / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2020

The present article analyses J. Ratzinger’s texts on the subject of the Eucharist, focusing on those in which he reflects on the mystery of the Eucharist by discussing its sources. In his texts, the Bavarian theologian attempts to define the essence and permanence of this sacrament describing it as an unshakeable foundation for the Church’s communio. This dimension is examined in the first part of the article. The article further discusses the role that, according to the Bavarian theologian, the Eucharist plays in the life of the Church and how it affects the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. The last part of the article is devoted to the realisation of the Eucharist in the life of Christians and how it builds communio in the community of the Church including the concrete ways indicated by J. Ratzinger in which the Church realizes its communio. The Bavarian theologian, in his reflection on the role of the Eucharist in building the community of the Church, does not restrict himself to purely theoretical reflection but also points out specific ways in which this reality can be realised in the lives of Christians.

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Adversus haereses 4,38,3 – „maturizarea” și pericolul heterodox

Author(s): Paul Andrei Mucichescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2020

This paper approaches the problem of reaching maturity in Adversus Haereses 4,38,3 and indicates the heterodox danger connected with a certain kind of reading this passage. The present analysis argues for the need to reconstitute Man’s irineic „maturity” as a gradual process, which should be considered in an analogous fashion to how its theologian, St. Irenaeus of Lugdunum, regarded Man’s „growth”. The paper defends the coherence of this theological concept against both John Hick’s heterodox interpretative attack and against an unorganized kind of exegetical reconstruction of the passage in question. Referring to a recent Romanian example of such an unorganized exegetical reconstruction, the present analysis illustrates it as a type of research which bears the blame for enabling such an attack like Hick’s.

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Cechy duchowości św. Jana Bosko w formularzach mszalnych

Author(s): Radosław Błaszczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 57/2021

The author analyzed all euchological texts of the liturgical memorial of St. John Bosco, both from the Roman Missal for Polish Dioceses and the Messale Proprio della Famiglia Salesiana. This analysis turned out to be a valuable procedure aimed at showing the essential elements of the spirituality of St. John Bosco, founder of the Society of St. Francis de Sales. In addition, the article presents a wealth of mass texts that fulfill many functions, primarily formative and didactic ones, which, when used well, can enlarge the bunch of people elevated to the group of blessed and canonized people in the Catholic Church.

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Brant Pitre, Isus și rădăcinile evreiești ale Mariei

Author(s): Lucian Farcaşiu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Review of: Brant Pitre, “Isus și rădăcinile evreiești ale Mariei” (Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary), traducere din engleză de Monica Broșteanu, Editura Humanitas, București, 2020, 227 pp.

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A bűn kollektív dimenziójának azonosítható sajátosságai a Szentírásban

Author(s): István Bakos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2021

This study attempts to sketch the biblical and Christian ethical dimensions of collective crime by analysing biblical texts and terminology relevant to the topic. The definition and critique of collective crime was born in Germany in the aftermath of political, philosophical and legal debates after the second world war. The concept expressing the essence of the notion – namely that the whole community can be considered guilty for the crimes committed by individuals or a smaller group within the community – has led to several Neroic acts, having served as a legitimate ideological basis for dictatorships, extermination camps, war crimes, conceptional proceedings, and victimisations. Therefore the 20th century definition of collective crime cannot be sustained any longer either legally, or morally. It is clear nonetheless that some thoughts behind this concept are also familiar from the Bible, which is aware that the consequences of individual crimes affect an entire nation. However, the view which penalises the innocent for crimes committed by others, is foreign to the conceptual world of the Bible. In this study I point to biblical and ethical principles providing guidelines for dealing with collective crime and collective responsibility.

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Fazakas Sándor: A Reformatio Vitae jegyében. Tanulmányok a reformátori teológiatörténet, egyháztan és politikai etika tárgykörében

Author(s): S. Béla Visky / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2021

Review of: Fazakas Sándor: „A Reformatio Vitae jegyében. Tanulmányok a reformátori teológiatörténet, egyháztan és politikai etika tárgykörében.“ Tanulmányok 14. Egyetemi Műhely Kiadó, Bolyai Társaság, Kolozsvár 2020, ISBN 978-606-8886-54-1, 231 old

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Geneza i przygotowania do nowego Synodu Biskupów poświęconego synodalności

Author(s): Janusz Królikowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

Pope Francis has guided the Church so as to make her more synodal in character, which is why another Synod of Bishops already deals with the issue of synodality and is committed to find its appropriate shape. It is vital to analyse thoroughly the origins of this matter since only then it will be possible to deal with it correctly and to apply it in the mission of salvation pursued by the Church. In the teachings of pope Francis we can find clearly defined principles which may constitute a foundation for correctly understood synodality which can be incorporated in the life of the Church on different levels of her activity. These principles constitute an appropriate preparation for the present Synod of Bishops and the appropriate orientation for its proceedings and particular undertakings.

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Synodalność i prymat jako wyzwanie w ekumenicznym dialogu katolicko-prawosławnym

Author(s): Janusz Bujak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

In recent decades the topic of the relationship between primacy and synodality has increasingly come up in ecumenical dialogues. It especially refers to the official catholic-orthodox dialogue, started from its first document adopted in Munich in 1982 to the recent documents of Ravenna (2007) and Chieti (2016), addresses the issues of primacy and synodality in the context of Eucharistic ecclesiology. The study of the St. Irenaeus’ Working Group published in 2018 is another important document on the same content. The aim of the article Synodality and Primacy as a Challenge in Catholic-Orthodox Ecumenical Dialogue is to show the development of a synodal and primacy thought in the work of the International Mixed Commission for Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue. It both estimates the state of synodality in the Orthodox Churches from the perspective of Eastern theology and presents a document produced by the St. Irenaeus Group who aspires to contribute to an official Catholic-Orthodox dialogue.The noticeable impasse in the dialogue is, largely due to ecclesiology that reduces the Church to the local level, Orthodox ethnophilicism, competition for primacy in the Orthodox world between the Moscow and Constantinopolitan patriarchates and the denial of the legitimacy of the development of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome in the first and especially the second millennium. The denial is shown also by many Catholic theologians.

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Wymiar wspólnotowy życia zakonnego

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

Community life, along with the practice of the evangelical counsels in imitation of Jesus Christ, is one of the essential elements of religious life. The article discusses the theological sources of the religious community, showing its biblical foundations and the inspiration which it draws from the inner life of the Holy Trinity. The second part presents some practical and contemporary elements of the community dimension.

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The Third Wave of Liberation Theology From the Catholic Enfant Terrible to Vehicle of Ecumenism, Interreligious and Social Dialog?

Author(s): Filip Krauze / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2021

The past decade has seen a radical shift in the Church’s stance toward liberation theology. At the same time, the complexity of its description has greatly increased. The issue has grown beyond South America and intra-ecclesiastical affairs. The multicultural and multireligious nature of liberation theology presents, on the one hand, a methodological difficulty and, on the other hand, an opportunity to look at faith and religion in different cultures and denominations through a new unifying key. According to the author, we are dealing with the “third wave” of liberation theology nowadays. Efforts are needed to utilize it more productive than the better known South American “infant terrible” of the Church.

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Luminile de pe morminte - Înțelesul și folosul rugăciunilor pentru cei morți

Author(s): His Beatitude Daniel Patriarch of Romania / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2021

By virtue of its communional character and the fullness of truth it possesses, Orthodoxy does not exclude anyone and anything which God has created, out of His will and love, and which He rules as Almighty Lord (cf. Romans 14, 9). This accounts for the Orthodox veneration of saints and remembrance of the dead, its hierurgies and various prayers for the entire creation which because of man has been subjected to the vanity of sin and now awaits sanctification (cf. Romans 8, 20). As prayer is the truest and deepest expression of the love generated by the salvific truth, Orthodoxy has prayer for the reposed in the Lord because „whether we live, or die, we are the Lord's” (Romans 14, 8), and in the Church we are one body, with Christ as Head and „ Lord both of the dead and living” (Romani 14, 9); moreover, „if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it” (1 Corinthians 12, 26). The commemoration of the dead, in gratitude and prayer, is not only a moral duty for us all, but also an of spiritual health because only prayer and gratitude foster and sustain the bonds between souls, the spiritual communion of souls which is stronger than the physical death of the body. As the present study shows, commemoration of the deceased in the Orthodox Church is based on Scriptural and patristic arguments in support of praying for the deceased, so that the remembrance of the dead is actually a duty derived from the great commandment of love, preached by the Gospel. Therefore, praying for the reposed in the Lord is an expression of steadfast faith, continuity and unity in sentiment and beliefs from generation to generation, and the testament to our appreciation and gratitude to them, to „love that vanquishes death”, and to our hope and belief in their communion with Christ our Lord in eternity, in the Resurrection and everlasting life.

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Despre nemurirea sufletului

Author(s): Saint Nectarie Kefala / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2021

The study on soul’s immortality aims to draw the attention of readers on an issue of great religious significance. Before addressing it, however, it must be ascertained whether the soul exists as distinct from the body. Based on the divine revelation, the Church asserts the independent existence of the soul. As the metaphysical truths of Christianity have often been disputed and challenged by experimental science, unsurprisingly this fact has also been challenged. Out os its sense of self-importance generated by success obtained through experiments, experimental science deemed itself qualified to offer its views on the existence of the soul, which it denied because the issue did not actually pertain to its area of expertise. The main aim of this study is, on the one hand, to edify those who hold wrong opinions, ignoring the doctrine of our Holy Church, opposing it and looking for arguments to contradict the teachings on salvation, and on the other hand to defend the truths and the holy traditions of the Church, and to strengthen the religious convictions of those believers who are vulnerable because of their insufficient knowledge, and to protect them from any misleading notions so that, in full awareness and strong faith, they should uphold the truths of the Church. This will enable the believers thus empowered to keep to the path of salvation and lead a life full of hope and peace of mind, anticipating and expecting the Kingdom promised by God – may we all be worthy of it.

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Charles-Claude Genest: Cartesianism and Theology

Author(s): Adam Drozdek / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Charles-Claude Genest was a Catholic priest who in his versified work, Principles of philosophy, proposed evidence of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul. In this undertaking he used as his philosophical foundation the ideas of Descartes, in particular, his cogito principle, the ontological argument for the existence of God, and his physical theory of vertices and the plenum. However, Genest used in his arguments to a much larger extent physico-theological ideas than Descartes did.

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Działalność Związku Polskiej Młodzieży Ewangelickiej Województwa Śląskiego w latach 1927–1939

Author(s): Paweł Cieśla / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The problems of activation and education of Evangelical youth in the interwar period has been paid much attention, because they constituted the future of the church, society and the reborn nation. The aim of the article is an attempt to detail, from the pedagogical perspective, the main areas of activity of the association – “The Union of Polish Evangelical Youth of the Silesian Voivodeship”. Thus, the conditions of the creation and development of the Association were characterized, taking into account the scope of its patriotic-religious, cultural-educational and social influence, preparing young people to perform important religious, social-educational and national duties in their environment. The assumptions of the Evangelical model of upbringing, as well as recreational, sports and charity activities of the association, supporting the social integration of young Evangelicals, were also discussed.

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O ks. Antonim Korczoku (1891–1941) w 80. rocznicę jego męczeńskiej śmierci (nowe ustalenia)

Author(s): Piotr Górecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

On the occasion of the passing last year of the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of Fr Antoni Korczok (5 February 1941), which he suffered for his faith in the concentration camp in Dachau, the “Year of Fr Antoni Korczok” was celebrated both in Gliwice and in the Gliwice diocese. During the meetings organised, including an international conference on 2nd October 2021, the story of his saintly life and the circumstances of his martyrdom were once again recalled. On this occasion, local historians took another look at the person of the pre-war parish priest from Gliwice-Sośnica, trying to solve the complexities of his life story. In this way, thanks to the archival search and on the basis of interviews with surviving witnesses, they were able to obtain new information about the person of the World War II martyrdom, especially on the question of his alleged political involvement and his activity on behalf of the Polish-speaking pastoral ministry in the prewar German Upper Silesia.

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The Good Friday oration as defined in the rubrics in the light of the twentieth-century liturgical reforms

Author(s): Dawid Mielnik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The present paper is an attempt to analyse the changes in the Good Friday oration in the light of the rubrics. This was made possible thanks to the analyses of the changes within certain categories in the liturgical books. The source material included Benedict XV’s Roman Missal, Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae Instauratus and two typical editions of the revised Roman Missals from 1970 and 2002. The paper was divided into six parts. Firstly, the Good Friday oration was placed within the whole liturgy and its structure was presented. The next parts showed the question of the persons involved in the liturgy and their liturgical vestments. Finally, the place and manner of saying the oration were discussed. The analyses have led to the conclusion that the scope of the changes introduced in the rubrics was relatively large. While the place of the Good Friday prayer within the entire liturgy was not changed, its order was significantly modified. The categories of persons who directly participated in the prayer were changed. Another modification was related to the liturgical vestments and their colour. The places from which the Solemn Intercessions were said were clearly defined, and another way of praying the oration was added

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Reinterpretacja teologii imago Dei według modelu nupcjalnego

Author(s): Aneta Krupka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2022

The article deals with the topic of reinterpretation of theology imago Dei according to the nuptial mystery model. These considerations were included in the contemporary context of the development of the theology of the image of God. Starting from the thoughts of the Second Vatican Council, there was shown the possibility of recognizing that the basic dimension of being the image of God is the structural openness of man to relationships. Taking into account the postulate of Christological reorientation of theology, along with the statement about the communion-like nature of being the image of God, the advantages and consequences of such a reinterpretation were shown. The main conclusions concern the multi-faceted emphasis on the importance of relations, especially ecclesiastical, in the realization of being imago Dei. The particular value of this reinterpretation was shown on the example of the theology of marriage.

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Kosmologia Jana z Kwidzyna

Author(s): Julian Wojtkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2019

A transliteration of the medieval manuscript and its translation from Latin into Polish are in preparation. It is about the "Expositio Symboli Apostolorum" of John of Marienwerder/Kwidzyn (1343 – 1417). In the submitted article there is a fragment of the translation Expositio (No. I). It presents an outline of the cosmological views of the provost of the chapter in Mairenwerder/Kwidzyn and previously a professor at the University of Prague.

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DIGITALNA KOMUNIKACIJA KAO NOVI STIL ŽIVOTA U ZATVORENOM SVIJETU

Author(s): Mario Bernadić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2022

The corona virus pandemic proved to be a kind of catalyst in the sense of widening invisible social divisions, ultimately showing the modern world to be divided and essentially closed, despite the existence of numerous modern technologies, which until recently promised to connect the whole world in a single communication entity. In this way, the old social divisions were not overcome, but only further deepened. However, according to Pope Francis, this whole situation also becomes a sign of hope, if it leads us to an insight into the essence of our human nature, and if it provides us with extraordinary examples of human kindness. In this article, we begin from a consideration of different types of hope. Then we examine the extent to which modern technology itself can be a reason for human hope. Next, we look in particular at issues of knowledge and authority in the modern digitalized context, concluding with a consideration of the disadvantages and advantages of certain types of modern interpersonal communication.

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