Bartnik, Czesław S. (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2002)
Personalism can be taken in its narrow meaning as a branch of the knowledge about man as person. In this meaning it tends to define person. Personalism can also denote the whole intellectual system which takes the overall phenomenon of the human person and his or her experience as its point of departure. From this point it takes into consideration any reality. As a result, this reality is taken to mean the content-related and methodological relationship of the person’s world and the non-personal world. Personalism becomes today dominant in the humanistic sciences, in philosophy and theology.
