The purpose of this paper is to explain an important question related to the text theory, which concerns understanding of processuality. In other words, a concept in which the text “is not” but “is becoming one“. According to the etymology of the term, the homily, in textological practice, may concern different elements that will influence its processuality. In the paper, those...
The article analyzes the social and political activity of the native of Rivne region, First World War veteran, Mykyta Bura, the cultural and educational aspects of his work, kinds of effort to the Ukrainization of the Orthodox Church of Poland. It was proved that in the first half of the 1920’s teacher M. Bura was involved in the development of Prosvita and Volyn co-operation...
The article makes an attempt at providing answers to questions necessary to clarify the doubts related to the universal conviction about the breakthrough of the nineteenth century for the development of health promotion and health prophylaxis. Can ancient texts provide any evidence that it was actually the antiquity that laid the foundations for preventive medicine? Can it be...
This theoretical and research paper focuses on the physician-patient relationship, and more specifically on the meanings ascribed to the notion of “patient”. Authors of relevant literature indicate that particular models of the physician-patient relationship depend on the understanding of the notion of “patient” as well as on the understanding of two basic terms in medicine...
In defining the place and significance of the Central Industrial District (COP) in Polish history and economy, it is impossible to overlook the numerous components of this complex economic undertaking, the plan whose main purpose was to increase the level of defence capabilities of the Second Polish Republic and to offset the differences in the economic sphere of particular areas...
The main purpose of this article is to consider the merits of including the transcendent concern in the set of ultimate concerns of human life as they are understood by M. Archer. In the first place, the author discusses Archer’s definition of that concern presented in the scientist’s works, and then presents a broader understanding of that concept highlighting its significance...
The main objective of this study was to investigate the influences of some personality traits, measured with the HEXACO model of personality, on the perceived ability to manage one’s own affects. The results of the correlations and the linear regressions between the personality traits, measured by the HEXACO-60, and the perceived ability to manage affects, measured by the...
Interpersonal communication is most fully manifested in the experience of personal love, thanks to which human beings express themselves as loving beings (homo amans). Love has many different dimensions depending on its object. The essence of love can be best grasped at the example of interpersonal relationship between man and woman. Descriptions of love bring to the fore such...
The paper studies the problem of the transcendence of the person suggested by Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. It originates in the philosophical thought of this Polish personalist and is complemented in his theological works. According to Wojtyła transcendence can be described as “another name for the person” as it is closely related to the fulfilment of man as a personal being. The...
The aim of the article is to indicate new possibilities of health protection from the perspective of pastoral theology. The Church’s teaching on the protection of human life and health is very rich. It should also be pointed out that the Church supports all social initiatives to reform health care, especially is humanisation and personalisation, which can lead to better care for...
Following the jubilee year 2018 of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae (1968), the invitation of Pope Francis in Amoris laetitia should be accepted to rediscover the message of Humanae vitae. In this context it seems important to grasp the intimate conjunction of the significations of the marital act, namely loving union and procreation. In this way the fundaments for an...
The article discusses Pope Paul VI’s encyclicals Eccelsiam suam and Humanae vitae and their relevance for the Church teaching on moral principles concerning procreation, marital love and human sexuality. Pope Paul VI expressed his opposition to the corruption of morality and his words resonate with striking prophetic relevance. The Pope called for conversion and opening to Christ...
Omawiana pozycja jest wydaną drukiem rozprawą doktorską Ewy Jóźwiak przedstawiającą rezultaty badań w dwóch ważnych obszarach. Po pierwsze, jest próbą syntezy historii rodziny Sachsów, z której wywodziły się cztery pokolenia pastorów pełniących posługę m.in. w Warszawie, Wieluniu, Przedczu, Wierzbołowie, Tomaszowie Mazowieckim, Łodzi, Turku, Szczytnie oraz Kaliszu. Ich przodek...
Artykuł dotyczy książki zatyytułowanej Współczesne wyzwania teologii pastoralnej, opracowanej pod redakcją R. Chałupniaka i J. Kostorza, opublikowanej w Redakcji Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego UO, w Opolu w roku 2016. Współczesne problemy natury społeczno-kulturowej obligują do podejmowania wyzwań w obszarze teologii pastoralnej, celem odnowy i udzisiejszenia działań...
From the beginning of his service in the Przemyśl Diocese, bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk performed his pastoral activities with great vigor and dedication and was, therefore, the most important “object” of the operational work of the PRL’s Security Service (a Polish acronym: SB) in the south-east of Poland. The Security Service undertook number of operational activities against him. He...
The present article concentrates on the role of Archbishop Antoni Baraniak in the Polish Episcopate in the difficult period of the communist dictatorship. Despite numerous studies on the history of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of Poland, the steadfast bishop’s biography has not yet been written. The undertaken analysis is aimed at rectifying this lack of...
Pontificale Plocense from the 12th-century is one of the first Polish pontificals entirely preserved to this day. Among liturgical ceremonials, there is a rhymed officium about St. Catherine of Alexandria. Its music bears some explicitly characteristic features of the late Middle Ages monody. A condensed musical style reveals a departure from the initial esthetic assumptions and...
In pedagogics the notion of values is analysed from many perspectives, however, the author of the article looks at it through the prism of the personalistic theory. The article presents the results of a research survey conducted in the group of 160 parents. The results are interpreted against the hierarchy of values based on the concept of integral development and education.
The article presents educational, care and aid activities carried out for children in Rwanda. As a result of the civil war in this country in 1994, several hundred thousand children were orphaned. Real emergency situation of children affected by the phenomenon of orphanhood has launched a wide intervention and compensation activities of diverse entities and milieus. Various...