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Natura jako źródło wolności
Schindler, David C. (Wydawnictwo Pallottinum, 2020)
David C. Schneider in the article „Nature as the Well-Spring of Freedom” shows, based upon Catholic theology, especially the encyclicals of Paul VI Humanae Vitae and John Paul II Veritatis Splendor, that freedom is a tool to achieve perfection for a Christian, although it never leads to full perfection. God is the only one who is, while we are condemned to becoming. Having God’s perfection before our eyes, we can choose whether or not to „condemn ourselves” to getting better and better. If there is any aspect of negative freedom here, it is only in the context of breaking the person free from his own limitations. There is a real difference between a person and human nature, but it is not the opposition. A person means the highest human subjectivity and the human „me” in terms of one’s own being and action. On the other hand, nature means specific forms of immersion of a person into matter, biology and history. At the same time, the human nature, humanity, has such properties that allow a specific person to be a person. In and through the person, the human nature is integrated into one single supposition „human being” The human person is therefore a special compositum humanum.
Pośrednictwo: znak rozpoznawczy chrześcijaństwa
Schindler, David C. (Wydawnictwo Pallottinum, 2021)
In „Mediation: The Distinguishing Mark of Christianity”, D.C. Schindler reflects on how God, both in creating and in saving, always communicates his presence to his creature through and with created natures, as is disclosed perfectly in the Incarnation. Inwardly structured by the love from which it flows, Jesus Christ’s unique and universal mediation of the Father imparts the love it reveals by including others in its very mediating, first Mary and ultimately the universal Church. In this light we discover that mediation in every order manifests divine generosity. „Mediation implies not just the enrichment of the other as recipient of the gift, but an enrichment of the gift itself, and therefore of the giver himself”.
Work as Contemplation: on the Platonic Notion of technê
Schindler, David C. (Wydawnictwo Pallottinum, 2020)
D. C. Schindler’s „Work as Contemplation: On the Platonie Notion of Technê” asks whether work has intrinsic meaning, or is only a kind of necessary evil. Drawing from Plato, Josef Pieper, and Matthew Crawford (philosopher-motorcycle mechanic), Schindler argues that „the meaning of the world and the meaning of man jointly come to expression in a decisive way in work” Work articulates the metaphysical reality of man’s union with, and stewardship of, all of creation. However, we remain always in danger of reducing work to its merely pragmatic value, evacuating it of meaning and thereby obscuring the right relation between man and the world.