The article raises a multi-faceted issue which is based on the concepts of ‘culture’ and ‘upbringing’. These have been very important theoretical and practical issues in the history of civilisation since antiquity. Upbringing by culture determines the shaping of man and society. After 1989, huge changes took place in Poland and around the world. In this context, we should answer...
The aim of the article is to show the reality experienced by the modern child as well as those aspects of this reality which have the main impact on its development. The author also made an attempt at indicating the needs of adults in the area of education towards becoming “a man of the new world” and the ways in which the dominance of pre-figurative culture may create...
The importance of reflection on the most important aspects of political history and its goals should be strongly emphasized. The main role of that history is not just cultivating and remembering the historical truth by such acts as building monuments and organizing various marches and parades commemorating historical events, but it rather consists in defending and proclaiming the...
The paper presents Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski’s selected views on the state. In his opinion, the state reality is family, society, nation, territory, power as well as cultural and economic sovereignty. State authorities should perform a service function with regard to society, acting for the common good and protecting the rights and freedoms of a man and a citizen. The limits of...
One of the best known contemporary Italian philosophers is Massimo Cacciari (1944-), who participates actively in the public debate on political, bioethical or ideological issues. He is an agnostic with left-liberal views, maintaining a positive attitude towards religion. In his philosophical research, Cacciari analyzes various elements of Christian tradition. The main purpose of...
This article addresses the problem of overcoming the discrepancy between faith and temporal engagement, signaled in the Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council and in many statements of John Paul II. It begins with the analysis of the Council’s text (no. 43), showing the historical-ecclesiastical, theological-spiritual and social causes of this discord. Then it points to...
The concept of confessional communication contained in Mohyła’s “Speech...” was built on the Neoplatonic – gradualist concept of the world. It is possible that this resulted in a vision of Christianity’s unity. Although admittedly broken up into individual and, at the same time, antagonized and seemingly unconnected Churches, Christianity, in fact, forms an ontological unity...
Thanks to the autocephaly of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in 2019, there is a fundamental change in the whole local Church in the religious, ecclesial, organizational, administrative and jurisdictional aspects. At the same time, there is a completely new perspective of self-realization in a fully autonomous Church based on communication with the Constantinopolitan patriarchate. This...
The article discusses the religious creativity of Wojciech Łukaszewski. He composed three works for a large ensembles and five religious songs for solo voice and solo voice with piano or organ. These works have religious connotations. Confessioni were inspired by the Confessions of Saint Augustine. In De morte Boleslaui Carmina, the composer repeatedly quotes the Polish song...
In the name of the national socialist ideology, German scholars and cultural personalities weeded out Polishness from the history of Gniezno during the Nazi occupation (1939-1945). Consequently, in their perception, culture was only a weapon in the struggle to strengthen the process of Germanization. Their reinterpretation of the city’s history, mendacious and incoherent as it...
At the end of the 19th century, Reverend Jan Siemiec initiated caretaking and didactic activities among the children and the youth in the Warsaw borough of Powiśle. In a previously purchased square, he erected a building housing a school, a dormitory, workshops and a Holy Family rectoral church. In 1919, the board management of the Foundation was taken over by Salesians. They...
The article presents a general characteristics and content of Book 16 of the Theodosian Code and the religious policy of the late Empire against the dissenters, in order to analyze the status of Jews. In the subsequent part, the author analyzes the privileges enjoyed by the followers of Judaism in the 4th century Empire, that is, privileges for superiors and members of...
The altar dedicated to the Holy Cross (altare sanctae crucis) appeared in church interiors in the early Middle Ages: the oldest testimonies to such altars date back to the 6th century. The altar was always accompanied by an impressive crucifix placed centrally in the church (crux in medio ecclesiae), and it was precisely this element that the location, dedication, and symbolic...
One of the fundamental conditions of successful adoption is to provide parents with accurate information about the past of the child and his or her family, analyze the impact of his or her experiences on current functioning, and anticipate their long-term effects. Contemporary knowledge of prenatal and perinatal pedagogy, psychology and medicine allows to claim that the earliest...
In 1918, Poland after 123 years of foreign rule regained its independence. The country was recreated from three partitions. The process of restoring the statehood came across numerous problems: war damage, lack of political structures, or of one, unified legislation or education system. The situation was further complicated by the global economic crisis. The new authorities were...
Niniejszy artykuł jest swego rodzaju kontinuum poprzedniego, opublikowanego w Seminare 2018, t. 2. Tekst jest podzielony na trzy części: pierwsza to prezentacja Przedszkola w lesie w miejscowości Ostia Antica, które inspiruje się modelem Outdoor Education. Druga część zawiera natomiast swoistego rodzaju badania pogłębiające przeprowadzone na terenie tego przedszkola, mające na...
Wandering, travelling from place to place and, using the theological language, pilgrimaging is part of human development. This article, focusing on pilgrimaging understood as a component of overall human development, discusses its selected areas, namely, cognitive, emotional, personality, social and spiritual.