One of Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky’s main goals was to unite the Church. However, he emphasised that he did not want everyone to become Roman Catholics, but to be united with the Bishop of Rome, preserving their own rites. In order to realise his intentions, he established relationships with many Orthodox Church hierarchs. His actions did not bring the intended results, though...
The aim of the article is to present the general view of mystical experience which emerges from the group of four spiritual writers related to The Golden Age of English Mysticism. All of them lived during the 14th century representing affective mysticism and negative theology. The most significant representatives of the period in English spirituality are Richard Rolle, the...
The dogmatic formulas are already created by the authors of books of the Bible, afterwards they are appeared in the liturgy and also within the whole tradition of the Church. The most important formulas are that which were created during the first ecumenical councils. They present precise synthesis of the manifested content. They answer for fundamental questions of the Christian...
The beauty revealed oneself in two spheres of the one reality: in nature and in culture – but as trancendentalium, beauty as exceeding beyond this reality. This way temporary beauty which is present in nature and culture is leading to Absolute Beauty. Article is presenting specifity of the beauty for nature and culture. So article is presenting the natural, craft and artistic...
The necessity of maintaining and storing parish registers is an important part of church administration. This article addresses a canonical aspect of such registers. First the regulations regarding the necessity to maintain parish registers have been discussed. Second different types of such registers which have to be maintained based on universal and particular law have been...
When Bishop Thomas II was holding the diocese of Wroclaw in 1270, he found a difficult situation after the rules of Prince Bishop Władysław, the interests of church suffered greatly, there was lawlessness and disorder. The first task was the establishment of law and order. During of implementating of order in the diocese, there was a dispute with Prince Henry IV. It was a big...
This paper analizes in what way Teresa of Avila affected the life and thinking processes of Edith Stein. The author focused especially on a particular moment in Edith Stein’s life, when she discovered Teresa of Avila, to show how it influenced Edith’s spirituality. While reading the book by Teresa of Avila, Edith Stein found God, the Only Truth, and this experience helped her to...
Karl Rahner has influenced 20th century theology through his conception of God’s self-communication. Commencing with his first publications, Rahner converses his idea of God’s self-communication to mankind. The questions and fears of the II. World War – stricken society forced – motivated him to reflect over the relationship between God and mankind. Grounded in the creation of...
The text, which follows the teachings of the Rev. Aleksander Zienkiewicz, a legendary academic chaplain from Wrocław, is an attempt to elicit and discuss his anthropological thought. The first part of the text emphasizes the inseparability of Zienkiewicz’s theology from anthropology. His discussion of God constitutes a discussion of man and, conversely, he never regards man as an...
Fiftieth anniversary of completing the II Vatican Council works allows us to look critically on theology and the post-conciliar achievements in topic of liturgy. The article regards chosen aspects of the renewal of liturgy in Joseph Ratzinger’s theological reflection. A kind of hermetic key proposed by Ratzinger for purpose of evaluating liturgy’s reform contains of three words...
Literary texts show and introduce people to some useful truths and messages, moral guidelines and warnings, tips concerning the progress, ideals and guiding lights, instructions and models of the decent life. They also provide the important help in the religious education. On the basis of the textbooks for teaching the religion for junior high school from the series “Odsłonić...
In contemporary culture is emerging a problem, which interest the public opinion – it is about faith in God, which is a challenge for the world. Existing difficulties, never-ending doubts, as well as objections to the Christian conception of life are the causes of departing the XXI century man from God. Requirements of Christianity are seen as too arduous and outdated, and as a...
It is hard for an human being to accept his suffering as a part of a process of spiritual growth. However St. Faustyna proves that identification and union with Jesus through the suffering is beneficial to save the lost souls. All her work on the internal life had been based on the union of her own will with God’s will, and her obedience without her logic and opinions. The Saint...
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...
The presented analysis is based on the incunabulum Auslegung der heiligen Messe that was issued in 1495 and preserved until 1810 in the library of the Clarissan cloister in Wrocław. Now it is kept in the Library of the Wrocław University. We are given an interesting model of creating individual prayer based on contemplating common parts of a mass liturgy. The unkonwn author has...
The article shows a new trend of research in the American biblical studies concerning canonical Acts, which departs from the traditional assign them Luke, the companion of St. Paul, and moves their rise at the beginning of the second century (100 –150). Shows that arguments for the appeal, to which the consequences of interpretation leads and how it affects the reconstruction of...