Philosophy of the contemporary Christian Culture. 3620-1-FWKC-OG

1. Explanation of basic theological concepts for the use of this lecture: philosophy of religion, religious studies, cultural studies, theology (1 hour).
2. The natural theology and the revealed theology. The sources of revelation in Christianity (2 hours).
3. Dispute over the understanding of Tradition/ Tradition within Christianity (2 hours).
4. Christianity as a cultural phenomenon: Catholicism, the Orthodox Church, Protestantism (2 hours).
5. Christian terminology and attempts at bringing it up to date (2 hours).
6. Christian anthropology in the catholic, protestant and orthodox versions (2 hours).
7. Fundamental christology and dogmatic christology (2 hours).
8. Contemporary problems connected to the teachings of the Holy Trinity (triadology) (1 hour).
9. The Marian cult and the cult of other saints and their influence on the culture of different nations (1 hour).
10. Naturalistic and institutional understanding of the Church (1 hour).
11. The Church and the state. The Church and the nation (2 hours).
12. The question of the highest authority within Christianity: the pope or the council? (2 hours).
13. The Church as a „service shop” - the problem of commercialization of the sacraments (2 hours).
14. Christian ethics and contemporary culture (2 hours).
15. Attempts at redefining matrimony and the reaction of Christianity to this (1 hour).
16. Heaven and hell as well as „circumhellish” states: the purgatory, the limbus puerorum, the limbus Patrum (2 hours).
17. The phenomenon of millenarianism (1 hour).
18. Christian fundamentalism and liberalism (2 hours).

Type of course

general courses

Bibliography

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2) Towards Christianity of Tomorrow. An Introduction to Ecumenism, a collective work edited by Wacław Hryniewicz OMI, Jan Sergiusz Gajek MIC and Rev. Stanisław Józef Koza, The Learned Society of The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin 1997.

3) Kazimierz Urban, Kościół prawosławny w Polsce 1945-1970, „Nomos” Publishing, Cracow 1996.

4) Jan Paweł II w dialogu miłości z Kościołem wschodnim, selected and prepared by Andrzej Polkowski, introduction by Wacław Hryniewicz OMI, PAX, Warsaw 1984.

5) Prawosławie, a collective work edited by Jan Drabina, research issues of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków MCXCIV, studies on religion, issue 29., published by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow 1996.

6) Słowianie wschodni. Duchowość, mentalność, kultura, an anniversary book dedicated to Professor Ryszard Łużny on his seventieth birthday, edited by Anna Raźna and Danuta Piwowarska, Bohdan Grell i córka s.c. Publishing, Cracow 1997.

7) Karol Karski, Symbolika. Zarys wiedzy o Kościołach i Wspólnotach chrześcijańskich, Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw 1994.

8) Bliżej wspólnoty. Katolicy i luteranie w dialogu 1965-2000, edition, introduction, and translation of texts by Karol Karski and Stanisław Celestyn Napiórkowski OFMConv, The Learned Society of The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin 2003.

9) Zbigniew Wojewoda, Zarys historii Kościoła greckokatolickiego w Polsce w latach 1944-1989, „Nomos” Publishing, Cracow 1994.

10) Piotr Derdej, Status prawny Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego w III Rzeczypospolitej, Metropolis of Warsaw, Orthodox Theology Chair - University of Bialystok, Białystok 2005.

11) Krzysztof Mazur, Mariawityzm w Polsce, Institute for the Study of Religion, The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, „Nomos” Publishing, Cracow 1991.

12) Ryszard Podgórski, Religijność wiernych Starokatolickiego Kościoła Mariawitów. Studium historyczno-socjologiczne, „Nomos” Publishing, Cracow 1998.

13) Maciej Bielawski, Teologia rumuńska w pięciu odsłonach, homini, Bydgoszcz 1999.

14) Bishop Tadeusz Pikus, Rosja w objęciach ateizmu, published by the Archdiocese of Warsaw, Warsaw 1997.

15) Wacław Hryniewicz OMI, Sister Churches, Verbinum, Warsaw 1993.

16) Wacław Hryniewicz OMI, Leave the Past to God. Union and Uniatism in the Ecumenical Perspective, published by the Opole University, Opole 1995.

17) Grzegorz Przebinda, A Larger Europe – the Pope, and Russia and Ukraine, Znak, Cracow 2001.

18) Karol Karski, Dążenia ekumeniczne we współczesnym świecie, The Ecumenical Library, Instytut prasy i wydawnictw „Novum”, Warsaw 1986.

19) Stanisław C. Napiórkowski OFMConv, Solus Christus. Zbawcze pośrednictwo według „Księgi Zgody”, Editorial Staff of John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Publishing, Lublin 1999.

20) Stanisław Celestyn Napiórkowski OFMConv, Wierzę w jeden Kościół, published by „Biblos” - published by the Diocese of Tarnów, Tarnów 2003.

21) Maria Libiszowska-Żółkowska, Kościoły i związki wyznaniowe w Polsce, Mały Słownik, Verbinum, Warsaw 2001.

22) Położenie prawne Kościołów i związków wyznaniowych w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej. Zbiór przepisów i dokumentów w/g stanu na dzień 1 października 1960 r., prepared by Edward Małkiewicz and Stanisław Podemski, Ars Christiana, Warsaw 1960.

23) Rev. Stanisław Grzechowiak, Ruch arcybiskupa Lefebvre’a. Ku rozłamowi w Kościele posoborowym, The Primatial Publishing House „Gaudentinum”, Gniezno 1998.

24) The Second Vatican Council, Constitutions, Decrees and Declarations, Pallotinum, Poznań 2002.

25) Marek Blaza SJ, Jak wierzysz? Sakramenty inicjacji chrześcijańskiej w dialogu katolicko-prawosławnym, WAM, Cracow 2005.

26) Nierzymskokatolickie kościoły chrześcijańskie we współczesnej Polsce,
Zdzisław J. Winnicki J., edited by Tomasz Dębowski, published by Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2008.

26) Rev. Wacław Hryniewicz OMI, Karol Karski, Rev. Henryk Paprocki, Credo. Symbol naszej wiary, Znak, Cracow 2009.

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