Kulbacki, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2016)
The article concerns the reception by Fr. Blachnicki thoughts of John Paul II’s encyclical Dives in misericordia. Formulating the program of human liberation Fr. Blachnicki closely tied it with evangelization and deuterocatechumenate formation. This program is founded on the biblical concept of liberation or salvation, based on the paradigm of the Exodus and on Christian anthropology, especially expressed in the encyclical John Paul II’s Redemptor hominis. The study proved that the Church’s teaching on God’s Mercy allowed F. Blachnicki to formulate the fundamental thesis of “liberation by truth” regarded as “the basic work of mercy”. Thus, “Polish liberation theology” understood in that way displayed its realization in the social commitment based on the evangelization program Ad Christum Redemptorem and in its three phases of proclaiming God’s Mercy – prayer, kerygma, liberation.
