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Un pensamiento sinfónico. La teología de Joseph Ratzinger

Author(s): Pablo Blanco Sarto / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

In these lines we offer a synthesis on the theology elaborated by the current bishop of Rome. We begin at the centre, with the central nuclei: Christ present in the Scripture and the liturgy, and his closeness to the Church and Mary. Later we deal with the theological and ontological pillars of his thought, in which we find love, truth, beauty and hope. Regarding the announcement of the Christian message, Ratzinger insists on faith and reason, and in this relationship we can deduce his ideas on theology, catechesis and preaching. Finally, with regard to the mission, his statements about the ministry and the Eucharist (here an ecumenical theology can be deduced), creation, other religions and the relationship between the Church and the world are of some note.

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Encyklika „O wierze”

Author(s): Czesław S. Bartnik / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The encyclical “Lumen fidei” sketched by Benedict XVI, with some reflections by Pope Francis, is the first document by the Magisterium that is devoted as a whole to the issue of faith seen from the theological point of view. It deals with faith not only in the aspect of accepting the revealed truths by the mind, but also as the existence in Christ in all dimensions. It does not give a synthetic definition of faith, but on the basis of the presented elements faith probably may be defined as Christification of a man, an individual and a community, done by Christ’s Gift in cooperation with the human person in the aspect of reality of the revelation, redemption and salvation.

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„Ponieważ jeden jest chleb...” Eucharystyczna eklezjologia J. Ratzingera/Benedykta XVI

Author(s): Jerzy Szymik / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

In a specific way, while making a synthesis of various aspects of theology of the Eucharist, J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI leads us deep into the reality, towards the final truth of the world which was created by God as good and which was redeemed. As the realization of the unity of what is spiritual, internal, personal and what is physical, external, social, the Eucharist shapes the Church, which – in turn – enables it, assumes and exists on the basis of its gift, as one and universal (Catholic). The thought of J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI combines biblical hermeneutics, patristic interpretations, dogmatic findings, spirituality, morality, liturgy and social science. This integrity, manifested through the Passion and Paschality of Christianity, where such notions and terms as Body of Christ, Communion, Eucharist, participation in the Body and Blood, participation in the prayer of Jesus not only explain each other, but also add meaning to one another, shows what sacramental consciousness can be and how to approach the great mystery of faith.

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Charyzmatyczna struktura Kościoła. Wybrane elementy eklezjologii ks. Wincentego Granata

Author(s): Kordian Duda / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The Holy Spirit lead the way for the Church in every epoch and equipped believers with multiple spiritual faculties. Owing to the Holy Spirit, the Demos of God is still preserved in the aspic of His juvenescent viability. Nowadays, charismas and charismatic movement are often spoken about. Coming up to the history of the Church, one should mention that the faith of the Christians, who lived in the first centuries, was marked with the great experience of the Holy Spirit as the Power, through whom the risen Christ is present in the history of the world. This fact was the cause that they were comprehending the Church as a real and spiritually-charismatic world. Unfortunately, the strict connection between the Holy Spirit and the Church was forsaken for plenty of centuries. This question started experiencing its second juvenility after the Vatican Council II. John Paul II emphasized that there is neither such a contrast in the Church, nor a variance between the institutional and charismatic aspects. Both aspects are equally significant elements in the organization of the Church. The paper presents the topicality of the teaching of Rev. Vincent Granat, which is connected with the charismatic organization of the Church. The exposition of the professor from Lublin is mainly based on St. Paul’s texts, but it also refers to the teaching of the Vatican Council II. The Council pictured in its documents all good theological tendencies with regard to the question concerning charismas, which are one of a few manifestations of the redemptive presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church of Christ.

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Humanizm dogmatu chalcedonskiego

Author(s): Marcin Składanowski / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The article discusses the relevance of the Chalcedonian dogma of Christian anthropology. The context of the discussion is the Western theologians’ pursuit of new forms of expression of the faith. However, the Chalcedonian Christological doctrine is not outdated. The truth of faith that Jesus Christ is True God and True Man has its important anthropological implications. This dogma constitutes the foundation of the Christian teaching on the human dignity.

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Koncepcje stworzenia człowieka u początku XXI wieku

Author(s): Michał Kosche / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The great variety of conceptions of the genesis of man and the world is amazing. Even their classification is an extremely difficult thing, not to mention an attempt to assess their conformity to the teaching of the Church. According to the key accepted in the present article strictly theological theories (theological and biblical creationism) and progressive creationism aspire to be in conformity with the Catholic teaching. Theistic evolutionism also could be accepted on certain conditions and understood in a certain way, although the author expresses his skeptical attitude as to the possibility of presenting such an interpretation of it that still would not be progressive creationism, and would overcome all the aporias indicated in the analysis.

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„Droga piękna” (via pulchritudinis) a realizacja misji Kościoła według B. Fortego

Author(s): Jakub Dąbrowski / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

“The way of beauty” in Bruno Forte’s view appears to be experienced faith or life in the horizon of faith. Beauty, as a category connected with the attitude of love, is a moving, dynamic value. Understood in this way beauty of love till the end can be discovered in the icon of the Beautiful Shepherd – the Crucified Christ. In this personal fragment of history the entirety of the Mystery comes to us – God, who is Love (cf. 1 John 4, 8.16). The love that is cognized is the driving force: love demands a reply of gratefulness. This responsorial character of love that should be characteristic of every Christian, can be first of all seen in Mary – All Beautiful, a transparen Icon of the Mystery. Contemplation of Christ’s face (following Her example of in Her), to which Blessed John Paul II encouraged the faithful (cf. NMI 25), leads to a transformation of the person and the world of persons, as it is entering the way of beauty, whose end is beauty of the person and beauty of the world. For “beauty will save the world” (F. Dostoyevsky).

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Duch Święty nasz Orędownik?

Author(s): Stanisław Celestyn Napiórkowski / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

Is the Holy Spirit our Advocate, who intercedes for us? Rom 8, 26-27 seems to say just this. Various translations of the Bible and commentaries to its text do not give an unambiguous answer. It is the same with Biblicists who were consulted about this question: Romaniuk, Jankowski, Stachowiak, Langkammer; some, like Gaugler, cannot see any problems here at all; also Martin Luther does not see such a problem in his Commentary on Romans. John Paul II interprets the Holy Spirit’s intercession as supporting us in our prayer; similarly St Augustine, who explains the words concerning the Holy Spirit interpellat pro sanctis as interpellare Sanctos facit. The author of the article shares St Augustine’s position, as he does not think it is possible that the Holy Spirit could pray for us and be our Advocate in such a meaning. Incidentally, in a way, the author brings up the problems of intercession and appealing to the saints, as they are manifested in liturgy and in extra-liturgical piety. He quotes examples that are worrying with respect to theological correctness or indeed incorrect.

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Natura i osoba. Personalistyczne ujęcie natury człowieka według Karola Wojtyły

Author(s): Sławomir Kunka / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The article, based on Karol Wojtyła’s texts from the years 1957-1978, discusses the context of the appearance of the terms “person” and “nature” and their significance. Next the article reflects on the morality of the human person and shows, in a very synthetic mode, the apparent conflict between the person and the natural law. This conflict is based on the foundation of the mistaken opposition of the person and nature. Finally, the article discusses the question of the integration of the person and nature. Text analysis of Wojtyla’s texts allows a deeper understanding of how human nature and the law, which is depicted in the context of this nature, are means of the interpersonal dialogue of the Creator and the man.

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Natura człowieka a wpływ szatana

Author(s): Sławomir Kunka / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The Revelation of God, concerning the nature of evil spirits and their influence on man, it is only a setting of the manifestation of God’s love, of His concern for man and of the necessity of live in the sanctifying grace. Thanks to it the human life shines brightly of the beauty and of the goodness of creation. Entire knowledge about Satan and other evil spirits should bring oneself closer to God, inspiring to living in His grace and keeping control of oneself. The article considers the influence of Satan and the other fallen spirits on man. First it describes Adam’s sin, to which persuaded him the devil. Then, it attempts to define the limits of influence of demons on man who is free and intelligent creation. In the last two sections it reflects on the relation of Divine Providence to evil and the action of God’s grace, to which the faithful have access through the ministry of the Mother-Church.

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Między znakiem krzyża a symbolem serca. Hermeneutyka miłości Boskiej i ludzkiej Chrystusa

Author(s): Grzegorz Barth / Language(s): Issue: 5 (60)/2013

The mystery of Jesus’ Heart cannot be separated from the mystery of His cross. They both illustrate, but also realize God’s incomprehensible love for man – its realism and fact. They both also depict the divine-human dimension of salvation effected in the person of Christ. In this way the paradox of this love reaches its peak. Although they both express the same love, they are in a way beside each other, and they need each other so that the love could be expressed, be voiced. What happened on the cross is in a way complemented and consolidated in the image of the Heart. The core of this hermeneutics is: the act of Jesus’ Heart becomes clear in the cross, and the cross in the love of the Heart. At the same time in Jesus’ Heart – Jesus as the God and a man – the act of God’s love is joined in one thing, where human love is a reply to the priority of loving on the side of God; it is in it that it is fulfilled and verified. God’s love – the one that was crucified and wounded with the spear – only explains the significance of human love.

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„Świadectwo” (‘ēdût) w kapłańskiej koncepcji sanktuarium i przymierza

Author(s): Janusz Lemański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

The theological meaning of the word ‘ēdût, which is used in the priestly narrative about the construction of the Tent of Meeting, has long been a topic of debate. A synchronic analysis allows us to see in it “two stone tablets”, a kind of artifact which Moses puts into the Ark and which is not to be seen again. It symbolizes and brings to mind all the words of God passed on by Moses at Sinai. On other hand, diachronic analysis allows us to think that the idea of the Ark did not belong to the priestly strata of PG but rather was added later (PS). It has also been suggested that in P originally the Ark was called the Ark of Meeting and then the Ark of Testimony (the connection between j‘d and ‘dwt → ‘d). In its original form, the narrative about the Ark might have suggested the traditional role of the object: it symbolized the presence of God and was understood as the footstool of His invisible throne, where the treaty was kept. Later, the concept of the place of meeting with God was transferred to the Ark-cover (kappōret), and ‘ēdût (Testimony) became the symbol of the covenant stipulations. In the final phase it came to mean the two stone tablets with the Decalogue.

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Prorok jako świadek (Jr 23,16-22)

Author(s): Piotr Jaworski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

This article deals with the subject: “prophet as a witness”. The Bible portrays a prophet as a messenger speaking in God’s name and announcing His word. However, he is not merely a neutral reporter, but the witness of received revelation. A witness is a person who has participated in some event personally and therefore can confirm what he or she saw and heard. These two elements of witness in the prophet’s mission are pointed out by Jeremiah. His oracle in Jer 23:16-22 deals with false prophets, whose own visions proclaim themselves as coming from God. Meanwhile, the true prophet is following quite a different path. He participates in “the council of Yahweh”, experiencing divine revelation (conf. v. 18), and then testifies to what he has seen and heard (conf. v. 22). Therefore, such a prophet is truly the witness of God and His word.

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Dawidowe świadectwo o Bożym przebaczeniu w Iz 55,3-5 na tle wewnętrznych rozterek judejskich wygnańców (lata 550-539 przed Chr.)

Author(s): Arnold Zawadzki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

The article tries to describe the theology of David’s testimony in Isaiah 55:3-5 in light of its historical background, to wit the last decade of the Babylonian exile, and in relation to the internal quandary of Judean Exiles. The study undertakes an inquiry into the question of whether the eternal covenant in Isaiah 55:3-5 is the continuation of the Sinaitic Covenant, or rather does its content go beyond the Mosaic Law, creating a totally new relationship of God with Israel. The study also draws attention to the existence of a redactional addition, which shifts the weight of the original message from a revanchist Judeo-centrism toward the irenic ethno-centrism typical of the Book of Jonah.

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Rola świadectwa w życiu i posłudze duszpasterzy w świetle nauczania Benedykta XVI

Author(s): Wiesław Przygoda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

The objective of the Year for Priests proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI was to urge priests to interior renewal and more incisive witness to the Gospel in today’s world. Although the witness to Christ and his Gospel is a common responsibility of all Christians, this primarily refers to the pastors. The central problem of this study was expressed in the question: What is the function of testimony in the life and mission of pastors? Its main source is the teaching of Pope Benedict XVI on the priesthood. The article consists of three parts: (a) the biblical basis of Christian witness (martyria); (b) the spiritual life of priests as a foundation of their testimony; and (c) several ways to implement martyria in the ministry of pastors.

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Rola świadectwa w nowej ewangelizacji na przykładzie nowych ruchów eklezjalnych

Author(s): Sławomir Płusa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

The issue of testimony in evangelization is today quite widely addressed, both in pastoral literature and in the formation of new movements within the Church. The teaching of the Church also raises this issue as the center of evangelization engagement. In this paper, we engage the problem of the role of testimony from the point of view of the evangelization movements, and its importance for the new evangelization. Our analysis of this topic first addresses the problem of the aim set by the new religious movements, and which is: the transformation of human life under the influence of an encounter with Christ and one’s witness to it. The testimony, which is intended to attract a man to Christ, is born of a certain Christian experience and is the result of a personal relationship with God. This origin of the testimony dictates the motivation of the witness. This motivation is included in the testimony of life, which is a tool for both pre-evangelization and evangelization. Testimony of one’s word has its center of gravity in the proclamation of the kerygma and the Gospel of grace. Fruitful testimony strengthens the identity of disciple-missionary and co-creates pastoral conversion of ecclesial communities. This is also an expression of the call of the new evangelization to the baptized who have lost a personal relationship with Christ and the Church.

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Germano Galvagno – Federico Giuntoli, Dai frammenti alla storia. Introduzione al Pentateuco

Author(s): Krzysztof Napora / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

Review: Germano Galvagno – Federico Giuntoli, Dai frammenti alla storia. Introduzione al Pentateuco (GRAPHÉ 2; Torino: Elledici 2014). Ss. 416. 22 €. ISBN 978-88-01-04715-8

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Janusz Kręcidło MS, Honor i wstyd w interpretacji Ewangelii. Szkice z egzegezy antropologicznokulturowej

Author(s): Marcin Zieliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

Review: Ks. Janusz Kręcidło MS, Honor i wstyd w interpretacji Ewangelii. Szkice z egzegezy antropologicznokulturowej (Lingua Sacra. Monografie 1; Warszawa: Verbinum 2013). Ss. 397. 56 zł. ISBN 978-83-7192-463-7

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Jacek Stefański, Z Mojżeszem na ścieżkach naszego życia

Author(s): Adam Kubiś / Language(s): Polish Issue: 27/2015

Review: Ks. Jacek Stefański, Z Mojżeszem na ścieżkach naszego życia (Lublin: Gaudium 2014). Ss. 181. 15 zł. ISBN 978-83-7548-187-7

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Nigel Paul Willis, The Pentecostal Movement, its Challengesand Potential

Author(s): Mariusz Rosik / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2015

Review: Nigel Paul Willis, The Pentecostal Movement, its Challengesand Potential (Internationale Theologie / InternationalTheology 17; Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang2013). Pp. 202. $55.95. ISBN 978-3-631-64140-8 (Hardcover)

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