„Projekt Regina Protmann”. Szkic z historii podmiotowości w Prusach XVI w.

Abstract

This paper is an attepmt to summarise the person of Regina Protmann, founder of Sisters Saint Catherine Sister Cloister in Braniewo, as a “regional identity project”. According to authors its structure and its meaning can be fully understood by taking into consideration the cultural context in which the “project” was delineated. Full context is composed not only of political and economic factors of time and space, but also a rapid process of cultural change - clash of two ideas of interpretation of Christian Symbolic Universe (theological discourses) and thus different visions of good and modest life. Most of all, the context consists of local customs and habits, which reinterpret official religious discourse in frames of own, local experience (of “lived through” world). The main interpretation frames of problem essayed here are limited to theological discussion on the general concept of Church, which found its counterpart in social practice, eg. the “Chalice dispute” for laymen (Holy Communion in two forms) and, on the other hand, dispute about conception of Christian life – the concept of subjectivity. The latter polarized Catholics and Protestants around practices, beginning from the concept of priesthood and ending on penance. The importance of those two was eclipsed by the issue of opposition of life engaged in matters of this world and life, which meant to be out of temporal context. This paper is attempt to describe the consecrated life of beatified Regina Protmann as an element of dialectical process, in which both oppositions in the dispute clarify and complement with each other.