Seminare, 2016, Tom 37, nr 4

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The Genesis of the Papal Eastern Seminary in Dubno and Its Patrons
Zając, Jerzy (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
The Papal Eastern Seminary in Dubno provides education for young men wanting to devote themselves to the clerical state. The author refers to the sources rarely quoted so far, or completely unused, and on their basis outlines the genesis of the University and shows its patrons-almoners. The documents unknown until today comprise among others: a seminarist periodical “Charitas” (later Caritas ), and “Druh-Другъ-Amicus” issued in Dubno. Other sources previously unused are two further periodicals: “Miesięcznik Pasterski Łucki” (“Monthly Pastoral of Lutsk”, 1926-1939) and “Oriens”, a bimonthly devoted to the religious affairs of the East, published in the years 1933-1939. Perusal of seminarist, diocesal and thematically profiled periodicals, journals and documents from the Archives of New Records in Warsaw allows us not only to verify specific knowledge, but also to broaden our horizons by learning about new important facts, issues and areas.
Education of Social Workers in Poland and Slovakia
Szluz, Beata (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
The presented article aims at clarifying the situation in the field of social workers university education in Poland and Slovakia, taking into account social and political transformations in both countries. The first part of the article presents the origins of the beginning and development of social workers university education in Poland. The second part, based on an analysis of available governmental conceptual and strategic documents, clarifies the crucial influence of the state policy in the field of university education on the current state of social workers education in Slovakia. The third part, outlines a vision and the priorities as well as points to appropriate tools adopted on the level of national association of educators in the field of social work.
Inspirations of Pope Francis’ Concept of Integral Ecology
Sadowski, Ryszard F. (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
This article presents the cultural ideas as well as philosophical, social and scientific theories that shaped the concept of integral ecology presented by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’. There are many indications that the direct impact on the thought of the Pope was St. Francis’ of Assisi vision of the world and the social teaching of the Church, especially the teachings of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. It also seems that at least an indirect impact on the ecology of the Pope’s vision expressed in the ecological encyclical was exerted by Jacques Maritain’s integral humanism. Because of the similarity of ideas, we can also assume that the earlier versions of integral ecology proposed by Ken Wilber, Leonardo Boff and Thomas Berry also to some extent might have provided inspiration for Pope Francis.
Selected Aspects of Grounded Theory Methodology. A Qualitative Research Strategy
Skoczyńska-Prokopowicz, Barbara (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
Scientists conducting research in the field of social sciences are constantly looking for new ways of analysing the social reality. For many years, scientific research has successfully used quantitative methods alongside qualitative research methods. The grounded theory methodology is a type of methodology providing a basis for systematic empirical research and analysis of the obtained qualitative data. The presented article reviews the main points of the grounded theory. It also aims at comparing this methodology with an ethnomethodological approach and at indicating the role of the researcher in qualitative research.
The Concept of Creativity: Towards an Intergrative Vision of Creativity in the Psychoeducational Application
Anoumou, Coffi Roger; Formella, Zbigniew (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
Although it is a positive word, always attracting and increasing attention, creativity is a concept that defies definition. As a psychological concept, creativity has resisted unequivocal definition or clear operationalization. Nevertheless, after viewing its etymological and semantic aspects, we focus on some attempts of definitions. As “man’s capacity to produce new ideas, insights, inventions or artistic objects, or the act to create something new, to find original solutions, and the willingness to change or transform the world. Creativity has generated numerous definitions with the problem of the lack of consensus among creativity researchers. This seems more complicated when we focus on creativity in cultural context (be the Western or the Eastern one). However, since differences are not deficits, but rather richness that must be complemented, our proposal is to integrate different cultural criteria and offer a unified vision of the concept, which we illustrate referring to Kharkurin’s Creativity. 4in1 model based on the criteria of Novelty, Utility, Aesthetics and Authenticity. This integrative vision is not yet the last possible attempt, so the call for deeper research and better model is still active.
“There You Shall Offer Him Up as a Holocaust on the Height That I Will Point Out to You” (Gen 22:2). Selected Methods of Patristic Exegesis. Part Two
Pamuła, Stanisław (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
For the Church Fathers the Scriptures constituted more than just Words and they strived to go beyond literal understanding of the text. Therefore, the purpose of this article, which is the second one of a two-part study, is to give a brief explanation of various methods of patristic exegesis and its practical application using as an example the Sacrifice of Isaac in the Book of Genesis.
From Mesocosmos to Cosmos: Man in Search of His oikos
Łepko, Zbigniew (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
This study draws on the cybernetic concept of living beings’ presence in the natural environment formulated by Jakob von Uexküll, which points to the cognitive basis for the presence of a living being in its surroundings. In this perspective, living beings are perceived as subjects, since they transform their surroundings into an environment which is optimal for their survival in the world of average measurements, called mesocosmos. Thus understood, mesocosmos is synonymous with both the ecological and cognitive niche of a living being. Consequently, we can say that living beings, in the course of their characteristic pursuit of a better world, find only such a world that matches their cognitive and behavioral abilities. This, in turn, means that the basic level of knowledge about the reality achieved by living beings expresses the utilitarian nature of that knowledge; in this respect, it is genetically determined and is, therefore, a function of a species’ aspiration to survive in the mesocosmic environment. In this context, the uniqueness of man, who due to his remarkable cognitive abilities is able to transcend the mesocosmos, becomes clearly evident. This transcendence is achieved, in particular, through scientific knowledge which is, in a sense, unlimited and points to the fact that human environment comprises (can comprise), in fact, the whole universe.
Ecological Education in “Laudato si’”
Kureethadam, Joshtrom Isaac (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on care for our common home, reminds us that ecological education is vital to becoming more responsible stewards of our home planet. In the face of the contemporary ecological crisis, we stand in need of a deep personal transformation and a radical renewal of our life-styles. Here the role of education is paramount. Pope Francis calls for an ecological education capable of establishing a new covenant between humanity and the natural world. According to the Pope, we need a holistic education that can re-establish harmony with nature, our fellow human beings and the Transcendent. The Pope also speaks of the variety of settings for education to ecological citizenship: schools, families, media, catechesis, houses of religious formation, etc. Education towards ecological citizenship is the need of the hour in this crucial moment of planetary emergency.
“[Mulier] salvabitur per filiorum generationem” (1Tm 2,15) in the Interpretation of Selected Works of the Latin Church Fathers
Kołosowski, Tadeusz (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
[Γυνή] σωθήσεται δὲ διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας (1 Timothy 2:15). What does St. Paul mean when he speaks about salvation of women through childbearing? Does the word τεκνογονία mean something more than “motherhood,” or “bearing children”? How do the chosen Latin Church Fathers: Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory the Great interpret the text of 1 Timothy 2:15? Ambrosiaster limits his commentary to the actual words of St. Paul the Apostle contained in his letter to Timothy. The other writers refrain very decidedly from such a literal interpretation, seeking for a deeper, spiritual meaning of the word τεκνογονία as well as of the other passages of the whole text. In the idea of attaining salvation by giving birth to children, both St. Augustine and St. Gregory the Great, interpret children as good, noble deeds. Hilary, Ambrose and Jerome, in turn, make a typological and allegorical interpretation of the text written by St. Paul the Apostle. The mystery of the creation of Adam and Eve, refers to Christ and the Church. Adam and Eve typify Christ and the Church. The woman saved by childbearing, stands for the Church, which bears people to salvation through baptism.
Ethics and Nihilism in the Philosophy of Weak Thought of Gianni Vattimo
Kobyliński, Andrzej (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
The main aim of this article is to outline the relationship between nihilism and ethics according to an Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo (1936–) and his concept of weak thought. Nihilism denotes a broadly-conceived cultural phenomenon in which the idea of nothingness plays a crucial role. One of the most important tasks, facing contemporary philosophy is not so much overcoming nihilism, as understanding its essence and looking for appropriate forms of ethics. Nihilist ethics of mercy is possible, with the reservation that it is a variety of weak ethics which ignores transcendence and is threatened by relativism.
Call for Preserving Cultural Identity in the Face of Today’s Threats
Gocko, Jerzy (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
Cultural identity can be analyzed from different perspectives: cultural and social anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and other human and cultural sciences. The present study undertakes a reflection on the cultural identity of man in the view of Catholic moral theology and, more precisely, on the factors that may induce its loss. In the first place, the author discusses the issue of contemporary religious indifferentism, read as a specific type of threat to human identity in vertical dimension. Religious indifferentism along with pluralism on axiological level are manifested as, to use the classification proper for classic aretology, a specific type of distortion of cultural identity per defectum, while fundamentalism and nationalism, described in the later part of the article, as distortion per excessum. Finally, the study presents the relationship between fidelity to cultural identity and deficits of modern democracy.
The Issue of Migrants and Refugees in the Light of the Social Teaching of the Church in the Context of the Events of 2015
Borutka, Tadeusz (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2016)
In the past century, migration has become a widespread phenomenon that has an impact on the countries of origin, as well as on the countries of transit and destination. It is becoming a huge social problem and a particular challenge for politicians, economists, sociologists and demographers. Migration affects millions of people. It is also a problem for the Church, which serves all humanity, and which must cope with and meet all its demands in an evangelical spirit of love. The unprecedented migration of the past year has reached dimensions previously unimaginable. Currently, we are dealing with an influx of hundreds of thousands of people from very different cultural and religious backgrounds. The migration represents an ethical and social issue as well as a pastoral challenge for the Church. This fact should encourage the Christian community to reflect on and undertake well-conceived and targeted actions. We cannot put off these issues until tomorrow. The Church urges the faithful to stand in solidarity with the refugees. First of all, we need long-range actions aimed at eliminating the reasons of that phenomenon. It is necessary to make an effort to remove the causes of this situation. What is needed is greater international cooperation to resolve the conflicts that caused bloodshed and diminish other causes that motivated people to leave their homes. Efforts are needed to promote conditions that would allow them to remain in their homeland or, if they have already left it, to encourage them to return to it.

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