Sekcja Teologów Moralistów Polskich w latach 1992-2001

Abstract

The section of Polish Moral Theologians is a Polish milieu in which a learned reflection on moral theology is pursued. It groups the staff of moral theology working at Theological Faculties in Theological Seminaries in Poland. In 2001 the first study on the history of moral theology was published. It was written by Ariusz Małyska and entitled The History of the Section of Polish Moral Theologians in the Years of 1958-2000, Lublin 2001. The paper seeks to provide the reader (in its first part) with the details of the section’s organisation, and then (the second part) to present some initiatives and broader problems. They were discussed at the annual learned meetings of the Section in the years of 1992-2001. The broader historical context was an inspiration to analyse and study the section in that period. The paper is supposed to answer the question whether and how much the social events were reflected in the works of the Section of Polish Moral Theologians. By the social events we mean here moral callings (signs of the time) drawn from social transformations caused by the event of 1989, the end of the second millennium, and the Great Jubilee of Christendom in 2000.