Stan badań nad dziejami Wyższego Instytutu Teologicznego w Częstochowie

Abstract

Theological Institute in Czestochowa celebrates in 2016 the 50th anniversary. Throughout the years 10 historical studies have been written to present the history of this college. After reading these works there is a picture of complicated legislative way which the authorities of diocese should have overcome to create from the scientific organisation (Secretary of Ecumenical Council Documentation) the college using the following titles one by one: Study of Ecumenical Council Documentation, Institute of Ecumenical Council Documentation, and finally Theological Institute. The first historical study was written by fr. prof. Stanisław Grzybek in 1991. Throughout the years fr. prof. Jan Kowalski (2000), fr. phd. Paweł Wolnicki (2006 and 2011) and fr. prof. Jan Związek (2009) took the research on this matter. All these works are very valuable in historical respect, because they are based on source materials and were used as a base by writing the next studies of this type, both scientific: fr. Jerzy Duchniewski, fr. Jan Walkusz (1997), fr. Władysław Piotr Wlaźlak (2014), fr. Jacek Kapuściński (2015), and scientific for the general public: fr. Mariusz Frukacz (2008), Beata Stypułkowska (2016). The publishing initiatives showed above reflect on extended historiography of Theological Institute in Czestochowa, despite the fact that they appeared in last 25 years.