Roczniki Teologii Fundamentalnej i Religiologii (Annals of Fundamental Theology and Religiology)
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The title „Son of Mary”, depicted in the article, belongs to the most early and the most popular qualifications of Jesus in the Koran. It appears 23 times independently as well as in the combination with other titles and qualifications of Jesus. It characterizes his biography and includes a theological message. Its use is related not only to the presentation of Jesus’ person and life, but was useful...
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One of the problems of contemporary society is the understanding of sacrum - its place and meaning for the common day life. This article presents two sources that distinguishing sacrum / profanum - in space and time - entered into culture of the European society. The source of separating space into sacred and profane is the religiosity that is based on observation of nature. The source of separating...
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The Konkomba, like other African peoples, do not consider the fact of death as immediate and final nor the dead person as either living or finally dead. Among the Konkomba, this transitory period between burial and secondary funeral lasts three or four years. The transitory period finishes with the secondary funeral, which lasts five to seven days. In a very expansive village of Sambul, including...
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In this article one can find the methodological sketch of Fundamental Ecclesiology, in particular: the former lines of this discipline, main concepts, ‘side' sciences, subject, goal and functions and, particularly, methods. This sketch is based on mostly Polish literature which is not ‘large’ but consists important solutions. These solutions ought to be unifed which was one of the aims of this article...
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A review of contemporary theological publications that concern a variety of different issues lets one notice a certain regularity, i.e. frequent referring to complementary thinking or the principle of complementarity in the theological reflection. In the present article first the fact is shown that referring to complementary thinking has a significant effect on the quality and versatility of theological...
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The present article explains the concept of the research method, what such a method is in the general meaning, then it presents those research methods that are most frequently used in writing master’s and doctoral dissertations in ethnology of religion that undertake issues connected with folk religiousness. In dissertations such methods, among others, are used, as the method of ethnographic field...
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From the beginning of its existence the Church watched the moral side of the human condition. The years preceding the Vatican Council II were marked by a progressing crisis of moral culture; hence undertaking this issue was an urgent need for the Council Fathers. Moral theology of that period, with its casuistry and the individualist concept of morality seemed to have only a slight influence on Christian...
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Pomorze Zachodnie, do którego należała Ziemia Lubuska, było centrum pogaństwa słowiańskiego. Rugia była stolica pogaństwa, a Swarożyc naczelnym bożkiem. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych wykopalisk na terenie Głogowa i okolic znamy pozostałości mieszkań ludzkich ze średniowiecza. Zachowały się skorupy i resztki żywności, kości zwierząt, a także materiał opalowy (drewno dębowe). Kapłani pogańscy sprawowali...
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The aim of his article was to show the meaning of the Christian Tradition in the Transfer of Divine Revelation. Due to it the Revelation is transferred into history. The Tradition is means for it. The Transfer of the Revelation in tradition is performed with reference to work and God’s words. As said, that each supernatural Revelation is realized in the form of God’s action, which accompanies word...
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The article presents the problem of the most proper nature of the structure of fundamental theology. The author opts (by formulating arguments in favour of his stance) for a structure composed of four treatises: a tractatus on religion, a tractatus on Revelation, a tractatus on the Church and a tractatus on theological epistemology. Furthermore, he analyses the traditional structure: religion-Revelation-Church...
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The article raises the following question: is the Bible the most important source of theological cognition, or just a First Theology? It seems that the Bible contains implicite a 'First Theology' of the Church. However, according to B. S. Childs, a canon, an ultimate text is not identified with the final meaning of the text. So, it is an Orthodox Theology that reflects on God's words to get TO know...
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It is a fact that Neopentecostal version of Christianity, i.e. the so-called third wave of Pentecostal revival developing form the 1970s, receives quite a lot of attention in Ghana (and not only there). To a large extent, its attractiveness is due to such treatment of indigenous key worries of the Ghanaians (health and prosperity) that many perceive as Christian. The article presents an outline of...
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Fundamental Theology is scientific discipline which ex professo treats about justifying the credibility of Christianity. This discipline is about the foundations of faith and justifies credibility of Divine Revelation which has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ and lasts in the Church. Fundamental Theology would like to make Christian faith reasonable as it shoud be because a man is reasonable and free...
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The subject of the research is the text of the Hymns to the Church by Gertruda von le Fort, a twentieth-century Christian German writer. The Hymns is the turning-point in le Fort's writings; in fact it is a record of the revelation of the truth about the Church and of the way leading to it. The author analyses le Fort's writings from the point of view of the image of the church presented there and...
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The aim of the paper is to present Saint Catharine of Alexandria and Saint Andrew in the context of country-folk religiosity and traditions. Memorials of these two Saints in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church fall at the end of liturgical year and the beginning of Advent. The Feasts of these two Saints also became the focal point of pre-Christian folk customs and beliefs pertaining mostly to...
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(German title: Ist die Gliederung der Fundamentaltheologie in Traktate eine sinnvolle Weiterfuhrung der traditionellen Demonstrationes?). The article presents a traditional classification of the subjects of fundamental theology based on three demonstrationes. Despite the fact that it was criticized by the participants of Vaticanum II, its existence in the present (German) fundamental theology can...
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At the beginning, the author draws attention to some controversial elements contained in the article by Peter Hofmann, who understands the Bible as the 'First Theology' in too narrow a sense. In the next part, the canonical approach of Brevard Childs, who concentrates on the final form of the text, is confronted with the canonical criticism presented by James Sanders. Then, the stages of the Biblical...
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The main aim of the article is to demonstrate the elements indispensable to understanding how hermeneutics constitutes a fundamental 'locus' in which the question of 'truth' and the task of 'metaphysics' may be again welcomed, understood and renewed. This task requires presenting historical views of authors who showed the real nature of hermeneutics. Such a historical exposition is composed of elements...
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The article analyzes the veritative credibility of the Catholic Church according to H. U. von Balthasar. We are trying to answer the question: Does the Church transmit the truth revealed in Jesus Christ in an honest and intact way? Despite changeable, philosophical and cultural directions the doctrine and moral rules of the Church remain constant and in accordance with ecclesiastical tradition. Christianity...
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The credibility of Christianity as a revealed religion, which comes first of all from the authority of God who reveals Himself, is one of the key topics of fundamental theology. A theologian's task is to analyse the Revelation which remains at the bottom of this religion. The author of this article analyses the problem of recognizing the Divine Revelation, present in the Bible and Tradition, according...
