The Relation between Consciousness and Emotions in the Thought of Karol Wojtyła

Author(s): Grzegorz Hołub / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This article presents Karol Wojtyła’s thinking on consciousness and its possible distortion called the ‘emotionalization of consciousness’. In consciousness two functions can be distinguished, namely a receptive function and an experiencing/interiorizing function. When the emotionalization of this dual structure takes place, consciousness is weakened in registering emotional facts (in their cognitive aspect) as well as in their proper experiencing (i.e. in referring them to the interiority of the subject). Wojtyła concentrates on self-knowledge as a power, which can contribute to limiting or eliminating the emotionalization of consciousness. However, he does not mention how to strengthen self-knowledge and make it more adequate for the job. Hence, in the paper, the author underlines the role of understanding and command of language, which can make self-knowledge a more efficient tool.

Sola Scriptura

Author(s): Monika Kassner / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

What does a convert feel after the change of religious denomination? Some consider themselves freed from many duties and obligations. Others, through the simplicity of the rites and the legibility of the evangelical faith, feel the closeness of God and feel stronger in their faith.

Always a Theology of the People: Theology in the Anglophone Caribbean

Author(s): Ramon Luzarraga / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Anglophone Caribbean theology is a theology of the people, developing autonomously from the theology of the people developed by Argentine theologians. Their idea that a people’s concrete, day-to-day practice of their religious faith carries the authentic culture of a country, is an authentic source of Christian wisdom, yields true insights of God’s presence and activity in the world. This faith of the people, contextualized but not suppressed within the life of the Church overall and tapped into by its theologians, serve to evangelize a country and its people by calling a country and its people to a conversion to who they ought to be, a people of God who incarnate the Christian faith according to their unique genius, and share the fruits of the wisdom drawn from the lived experience of Christian faith by participating in the Church’s evangelizing mission.This idea finds affinity with the mission of the Caribbean theological project: cultural liberation from colonialism and neocolonialism which brings about a sense of inferiority and dependency by the people of the Caribbean toward global social and political powers. Instead, Caribbean theology seeks to build a unique Caribbean identity which fulfills the full humanity of the people of that region.

The National Revolutionary Party and the Religious Question

Author(s): Roberto J. Blancarte,Monica C. Veloz Leija / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The National Revolutionary Party was founded in 1929 to win elections and to resolve conflicts between different political groups after the Mexican Revolu tion. But it was also created in order to face the opposition of the Catholic hier archy to the Constitution of 1917 and the measures that the revolutionary gov ernments had established to “defanatize” the Mexican people and to limit the social influence and therefore the political power of the Catholic Church. In the past decades nevertheless, the PRI has evolved from initial anti-clerical and even anti-religious positions towards more respectful positions of religious freedom, in line with the logic of a State that considers itself to be plural and respectful of differences. On the other hand, party authorities do not always respect their liberal and revolutionary tradition, the secularism of the state and the principle of separation that guarantees the moral autonomy of individuals against corpo rations. At times, the search for legitimacy generates political dependence and eventually leads to the imposition of the creeds and dogmas of majorities with respect to minorities of all kinds consequently eliminating the free will of broad sectors of the population that do not share those principles and expect the pro tection and guarantee of their rights by the secular State.

Analiza moralna uczynków starców na przykładzie wybranych Apoftegmatów Ojców Pustyni

Author(s): Volodymyr Mosorov,Stanisław Skobel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The article presents spiritual guidance, startchestvo in the Eastern Churches. On the basis oftwo sayings of the Desert Fathers the author carried out a moral analysis of two spiritual starets’ behavior. Based on this analysis behavioral and moral norms were determined which regulated starets’activities. We presented problems which can be observed in spiritual guidance when a starets violates the norms in relation to his supervisees. We pointed out that this violation in pastoral ministry can becaused by the phenomenon called “mock startchestvo”.

E – jak echo

Author(s): Michał Zioło / Language(s): Polish Issue: 674/2018

Najwdzięczniejsze jest echo leśne, zawsze gotowe odpowiedzieć na ludzkie wołanie. Najtrudniejsze do obudzenia – to kościelne, o którym pisał niegdyś ks.Józef Tischner w Świecie ludzkiej nadziei: „Jeśli mowa Kościoła kieruje się do dobrej woli człowieka, to musi być taką mową, która budzi echo w przestrzeniach ludzkiej duszy”.

The concept of man’s salvation in the thought of Saint John Paul II and Paul Tillich: similarities and differences

Author(s): Maciej Bogdalczyk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The presented text aims to distinguish the understanding of the concept of salvation by two significant Christian scholars: John Paul II and Paul Tillich. They come from two separate Christian traditions: Catholicism and Lutheranism. The concept of salvation is so crucial that it is the essence of understanding Christianity and, if recognized as the goal of every human life, the effort of understanding it becomes even more important. An insight into the notion of salvation, based on the indication of similarities and differences in its understanding, makes it more comprehensible and accessible to every Christian.

Creștinismul – lumină și bucurie într-o lume debusolată și tristă

Author(s): Marius Florescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2018

The 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, during the late October and early November 2013. More than 5.000 delegates from around 300 member Churches and 100 countries, examined the tasks facing the World Council of Churches, their relationships in the world, their potential and their dreams, and they came to speak more and more of the „pilgrimage of justice and peace” in describing this journey on which the God of life is leading the Christians. In the following study, we try to capture how the theme Christianity - light and joy in a confused and grieved world is reflected in the official report, published by WCC Publications into the year 2014.

Legea lui dumnezeu și libertatea în gândirea teologului protestant Rudolf Bultmann

Author(s): Mihai Iordache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01+04/2017

Is it possible that God’s law can help us to become free? Isn’t indeed limited and restricted our freedom if we must submit strictly the commandments of the Creator? Can the freedom be considered as our independence to all internal and external challenges? These are just some questions that this text try to answer, as they are discovered in the thinking of the Protestant theologian Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976), one of the leading Protestant theologians of the twentieth century and the promoter of the idea of demythologizing (demythisation) New Testament. His concepts are evaluated with a critical view, by comparing them with the teaching of the Orthodox Church and patristic thought.

A II. vatikáni zsinat liturgikus konstitúciója

Author(s): Emőke Ilyés / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2018

A kenyér teológiája

Author(s): László Őrsy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2016

Lucskos földön

Author(s): László Borsodi L. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2016

Zárszó és nyitókép

Author(s): Margó Hadnagy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2016

A hetvenéves Jakubinyi György érsek köszöntése

Author(s): József Marton / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2016

Az egyház küldött, feladatom a párbeszéd

Author(s): Xénia Jonica / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2016

A posztmodern: átok vagy áldás? (1)

Author(s): Attila Daly / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2016

Márton Áron, az ifjúság és a nép nevelője

Author(s): Márta Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2016

Márton Áron: Egyház - Állam

Author(s): Márta Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2016

Odnos prema rimokatoličanstvu u ranim radovima Karla Bartha

Author(s): Lidija Matošević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2018

The article discusses the question of the relationship of the Protestant theologian Karl Barth towards Roman Catholicism. It focuses on the period of Barth’s occupation as a part-time professor at the Department of Reformed Theology at the University of Göttingen. It is a formative period both for Barth’s theology as a whole, as well as for his relationship towards Roman Catholicism. The article presents the genesis of Barth’s interest in Roman Catholicism by placing it in the context of his dealing with Protestant theology itself and its history, or pre-history in the theology of the Middle Ages. The article shows how Barth’s attitude towards Roman Catholicism changed – from understanding Roman Catholicism as a kind of »heresy« similar to New Protestantism, to understanding Roman Catholicism as a form of theology and ecclesiastics whose, although problematic understanding of the possibility of the Word of God in the discourse of the Church, can become a critical stimulus to Protestant theology and ecclesiastics in search for its partially obscure identity.

Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas revitalizācijas projekti 20. gadsimta 20.–30. gados: Jāņa Sandera un Alfreda Indriksona teoloģiskie uzskati un darbība

Author(s): Agita Misāne / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 1/2016

Soon after the foundation of an independent Republic of Latvia the Christian Churches in Latvia witnessed the first calls to reform and create particular version of a “Latvianised Christianity”. The sole response came from one theologian – Lutheran pastor Janis Sanders, who in 1923 published a small book Our cult reform. He attempted to reform church worship, wore a white, embroidered liturgical outfit and was also one of the proponents of the Aryan Jesus theory. Also, his idea was to abandon the use of the Old Testament in church teaching and practice due to its Judaic origin. Sanders’s ideas were similar to those of the Deutsche Christen in Germany. They earned broad criticism after the publication of his first, but especially after his second book Christian Faith Reform (1938). He did not gather wide following