Biblia między oknem a lustrem. Wykorzystanie metod naukowej egzegezy do lektury duchowej

Abstract

The paper deals with the possibilities of employing the results of methods of scientific exegesis in personal reading of the Bible, prayer, meditation and contemplation. Presented possibilities have been written in a comparison in which the Bible is treated as a window or a mirror. As the first example, the fragment from Mt 9, 9 was given, together with its interpretation, made with the help of historical and critical method and evangelical meditation, which allows personal meeting with Christ. In the second example, a reference was made to the fragment from 1 Cor 12-14, its literary analysis and St. Theresa's recognition of herself in chapter 12 of this Letter. In the summing up part, the author points out the conditions relating to a possibility of overcoming the limitations of scientific methods of exegesis and the well-known, also in Poland, application of the proposals described in the paper.