Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.2.08
Jarosław Moskałyk
Najnowsze wydarzenia w dziejach współczesnego prawosławia, zwłaszcza w ostatnich trzech latach, mogą napawać pesymizmem i rozgoryczeniem. Powodem tego stanu rzeczy jest narastające napięcie strukturalne pomiędzy poszczególnymi wspólnotami autokefalicznymi. Jednym z dominujących czynników tego procesu staje się wewnętrzna rywalizacja, inspirowana głównie przez Rosyjski Kościół Prawosławny (RKP), która w rezultacie zakłada zmianę obowiązującego porządku autorytetu władzy w prawosławiu, w tym doprowadzenie do reformy w dziedzinie doktryny eklezjologicznej. W tle zaistniałej sytuacji pozostaje problem nadzwyczajnych kompetencji Patriarchy Ekumenicznego, dzięki którym może on decydować o ustanowieniu autokefalii dla określonej wspólnoty prawosławnej. Podstawą do podjęcia rozważań nad wspomnianymi kwestiami jest powołanie w grudniu 2021 roku pod patronatem Patriarchatu Moskiewskiego nowego egzarchatu prawosławnego w Afryce. W odniesieniu do tego wydarzenia przedmiotem szczególnej analizy w artykule są: kanoniczna doniosłość decyzji Synodu RKP, dążenie do zmiany prawosławnej eklezjologii, kwestionowanie prawdziwej sakramentalności i próba redukcji eucharystycznej synaksy.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.2.06
Krzysztof Góźdź
One will encounter views that there was no Supper of the Lord with His disciples, with the character of a religious and soteriological mystery, and that it only had the character of a simple supper or at most a mere Old Testament ritual. This position is ahistorical and anti-mysterial, and thus Arian and even secularist. On the other hand, there are frequent attempts to confine the Eucharist to the private sphere of life of the believers. The article shows that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI strongly challenges such views. For him, the Eucharist is not only the heart of his humble life and a theme of his extraordinary theological thought but also the central event, as well as the summary (ἀνακεϕαλαιώσις: cf. Eph 1:10) of the entire history and of all creation, which tends towards union with God. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI argues that in the Eucharist the integral Christ is present, with His whole Person, historical and at the same time glorified, and with Him the entire Holy Trinity. Such an understanding of the Eucharist has important consequences for the faith and social commitment of the contemporary Church.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.2.05
Małgorzata Pagacz
The article presents Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s view on mathematics as a way towards the creative Logos, and at the same time shows the understanding of scientificity presented by the present Pope Emeritus. For Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, mathematics is not only a tool of empirical sciences. The Pope looks at mathematics as: (1) a product of human intelligence, which, when reflected upon more deeply, also (2) leads to wonder and amazement at the mathematical character of created nature. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI considers the latter phenomenon as a way that can lead one towards the creative Logos. In this way, he presents a view on mathematics that goes against the current approach, which often tends towards the self-limitation of reason, towards accepting as the criterion of scientificity only that what is a result of mere cooperation between mathematics and empirics. According to the Pope, it is not science that redeems humans; they are redeemed by Love, by the incarnate Logos. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows the primacy of creative Reason as the decisive and indelible foundation of Christian faith.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.2.03
Józef Grzywaczewski
The discovery of Origen’s commentaries on Psalms in 2012 was an event for patristic studies. These commentaries are prepared in the form of homilies. It is said that Origen published them at the end of his life. In preparing his homilies, he applied the allegorical method as he used to do in many of his works. The implied author of Psalm 15(16) speaks in the first person. For Origen, it was evident that the persona speaking in Psalm 15(16) was Christ. Indeed, this Psalm belongs to the messianic Psalms. The article draws attention to three points: 1) Christ as the persona which has seen no corruption after the death in body; 2) Christ speaking about the Church; 3) Christ’s double inheritance corresponding to His double nature: Divine and human. The Son of God (eternal Logos) is connected ontologically to the Father. He is also connected to the people, especially to Christians. The Son of God acts for Christians in the Church. When the Son prays for protection, He prays for Himself and for the faithful. In his commentary on Psalm 15(16), Origen wanted to expose the unity of the Old Testament with the New Testament: God’s Son, Logos, Messiah and Christ is the center of both Testaments.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.2.10
M. Chrostowski
Badania biograficzne, cieszące się na gruncie nauk społecznych w polskim i międzynarodowym kontekście dużą popularnością, są wyrazem współczesnego społeczeństwa i kultury, która coraz częściej na pierwszy plan wysuwa temat „historii życia” konkretnej osoby. Wydaje się także, że owe badania mogą być zaczynem „zwrotu biograficznego” w zakresie poszukiwań prowadzonych w ramach teologii (praktycznej) i uzupełnienia ich o bogactwo indywidualnego pluralizmu płynącego z biografii konkretnego człowieka. Niniejszy artykuł posiada w tym kontekście niejako potrójny cel. Po pierwsze, ukazuje on podstawy metodologiczne badań biograficznych w teologii (praktycznej). Po drugie, przedstawia on znaczenie nakreślenia możliwych obszarów badawczych, w których badania biograficzne odgrywają rolę centralną. Po trzecie, wskazuje on na pewne trudności i perspektywy, płynące z zastosowania tej metody badawczej dla teologii (praktycznej).
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.1.04
Sławomir Zatwardnicki
The text asks the question about the role of the Word of God in connection with Pascha and its being made present in the liturgy. The article first refers to Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of liturgy. According to the Bavarian theologian, in Christian worship the historical event of the Passover (“just once”) corresponds to its continuous actuality (“once for ever”). The essence of Jesus’ words and actions – as the Son of the Father – at the Last Supper remains always present. It is then shown that the inspired writings can only be understood in connection with the words of institution at the Last Supper. The privileged time for listening to the word of God is the liturgy, during which Christ-the Lamb becomes the Exegete who opens up the deepest sense of Scripture (“Eucharistic hermeneutics”). An analogy is then presented between the entry of the past Passover into the present of the liturgy and the actualization of the events witnessed in the inspired books. This kind of “making present” is related to the sacramental transformation of the Jewish scriptures and feasts that Christ accomplished. The historical experience is not recreated, but recapitulated in the Eucharistic Passover. In the Blessed Sacrament Christ is also present in the spoken (and written under inspiration) word. In turn, the liturgy of the word is the verbal aspect of the sacramental action.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.1.08
W. Chrostowski
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.21697/ct.2022.92.1.03
Rafał Muzolf
Głoszenie Ewangelii stanowi istotę i misję Kościoła, która realizowana jest m.in. poprzez homilię. Należy ona do zadań niezwykle ważnych i odpowiedzialnych. W artykule odnaleźć można najistotniejsze wskazania dotyczące proforystyki w dokumentach Kościoła oraz przykład współczesnego kaznodziejstwa. Interpretacja perykopy o uzdrowieniu teściowej Szymona (por. Mk 1,29–31) w ujęciu o. Adama Szustaka ukazała pewien dysonans między orędziem tekstu źródłowego a tym, co dopowiedział kaznodzieja. Nadinterpretacja tekstu uwidoczniła się w kilku miejscach i doprowadziła do zniekształcenia, czy wręcz do zafałszowania przesłania biblijnego. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje wciąż otwarty problem aktualizacji Pisma Świętego i odpowiedzialnej proklamacji Bożego słowa.
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