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Item Apologia Kościoła w dzisiejszej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej(Stowarzyszenie Teologów Fundamentalnych w Polsce, 2012) Rossa, PiotrThe starting point of the article is expressed in the statement, that apology of the Church exhibits a close dependence on a local dimension. The three aspects of the Church are set in the background of the thesis: universal, local and of the actually gathering community. The identity of the faith, as well as the one of the Church, demands unceasing apology, clarification and dialog. This apologic dimension characterized the Church also in 20th century, in the mid-eastern part of European Continent, during totalitarian persecutions by Hitler’s Nazism and Stalin’s communism. The Catholic answer has acquired a shape of radical Christian witness. Apologic dimension of the Church was highly participated by the Blessed Pope John Paul II, who by His parentage, life and ecclesiastic experience was deeply bound to this part of Europe. These circumstances found their reflection in teaching of the “Slavic Pope” and his activity on the field of beatifications and canonizations, concerned about continual discovery of European spiritual foundation. This task was taken on by the Pope Benedict XVI and is also an unceasing challenge for every local community of the Church in context of socio-political transformations and emerging European unity within the European Union structures. As we recall the times of crisis – wars, “Solidarity”, “Prague Spring”, fall of the Berlin Wall – in these moments the Church was and is discovered as the medium of hope – says the author. This effects with necessity of quest for roots of Europe – those Christian, as well as those Jewish. Giving the witness to this hope is the constant portraying and imitating of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in lives of the Church members.Item Dialog religijny w świetle Bożego Słowa(Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza; Wydział Teologiczny, 2011) Rossa, PiotrThe article presents dialogue as the most basic phenomenon which takes place in the life of man who is understood as homo-religiosus, situated primarily within the experience of an encounter between man and God. The presence of the Word of God in the world, in the areas of culture and media, for instance, has had a good and effective influence on the relationships which are present in the world. The word of God inspires us to defend the rights of man, to live a life in freedom by introducing justice and peace into international relations. It also reminds us of the importance of protecting the natural environment. At the heart of the word of God there is Divine Revelation in its interpersonal dimension, whose summit and fullness is Jesus Christ Himself. This mutual existence of God and man, made complete in Jesus Christ, finds its extension in creation. That is why both an encounter and dialogue with all people of good will and persons of various religious traditions constitutes a foundation for the Church’s activity. It is from this foundation that the article draws the theme of dialogue between Christianity and the great religions of the world, with particular attention being given to Islam, while presenting contemporary Church pronouncements on this subject as well as Christianity’s tasks in the field of interreligious dialogue for the future.Item El testimonio cristiano del monacato(Universidad Pontificia Comillas - Hiszpania, 2016) Rossa, PiotrEntre las varias realizaciones del testimonio cristiano se distingue especialmente la vida monástica. Hoy se entiende este modo de testimonio de vida cristiana como una de las posibilidades de realizar la vida consagrada. Los que realizan este modelo de vida, quieren seguir a Jesucristo y sencillez de su vida realizando en sí al «hombre nuevo» a través de los consejos evangelicos y de las bendiciones. Durante los siglos y hoy día las dos formas de presencia de la vida monástica –eremitismo y cenobitismo– quieren ser el signo radical escatológico para el mundo.Item Eucharystia - pamięć i uobecnienie(Poznań : Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza. Wydział Teologiczny, 2015) Rossa, PiotrThe article discusses the historicity of Christianity, where a fundamental role is being played by the remembrance of Jesus Christ and His Salvific presence. These elements are expressed in the liturgical actions of the Church, especially in the Eucharist. The Church celebrates the Eucharist and recalls the Pasch of Jesus Christ which is made present. The offering which Christ made once and for all on the Cross remains forever present on the Church’s altars. Speaking about memory, beginning from the New Testament up until contemporary documents, the Church does not orient itself toward the past only, but lives with the awareness of the constant meaning of Salvific events, taking them up in the present and living them out while being oriented toward the ultimate future. The Eucharist, understood as the memorial of Jesus Christ, is also a mystery of His real presence. The celebration of the Eucharist places man in the presence of the Savior Himself until the end of the world, which is something that takes place in the Church and through the Church.Item Karola Wojtyły postulat dialogicznego wzbogacania wiary(Włocławskie Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne, 2013) Rossa, PiotrThe text elaborates on Karol Wojtyła’s dialogical call for the enrichment of faith. The basis of such an approach to faith was Wojtyła’s earlier philosophical and theological research which took note of man’s personhood, and emphasized the personal and dialogical character of one’s ability to humanly relate to God and other human beings. This research enabled Wojtyła to contribute significantly to the various formulations of Vatican II and constituted the foundation of his spiritual and pastoral activities.Item Kontekstualność przemian polskiej szkoły(Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny, 2018) Rossa, PiotrThe text refers to antropological and cultural as well as sociological-pedagogical approaches to analyse the challenges of the modern world towards the Polish school. Such a wide analysis, going beyond the school environment itself, allowed to outline the ongoing cultural changes, that are bringing many new opportunities with them, as well as posing treeats on the roads to obtaining ethical orientation and the hierarchy of values in the home and school education. In the introduction, I showed the dissimilarity of 20th-century historical experiences for particular regions of Europe, an at the end I made an assessment of the changes taking place in the contemporary Polish educational system and their impact on tasks for parents, teachers and educators.Item La familia cristiana en su tarea de testimoniar a Jesucristo hoy(2016) Rossa, PiotrGod makes it possible through His grace for Christian marriage and family to be His sign in the world. Christians who are united by the Sacrament of marriage are witnesses of Christ, because, by being strengthened through His grace they love and forgive each other in a sacrificial way. Mutual love which is directed toward God and neighbor is the greatest guarantee of this form of striving for holiness, as it is emphasized in the documents of the present Magisterium. Christian married couples and families are accompanied by the promise of Christ concerning His presence through the Holy Spirit.Item Liturgia jako objawienie Misterium Jezusa Chrystusa w ujęciu Javiera Pradesa(Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Teologiczny, 2019) Rossa, PiotrThe article attempts to examine the revelation of Christ in the liturgy in its wide context, as understood in the thought of the Madrid systematic theologian, Javier Prades. The history of Salvation which constitutes God's self-donation, with its center in Jesus Christ, has been exteriorized in sacramental signs, especially in the Eucharist. The liturgy is primarily a testimony of God's love revealed in Christ, through which man becomes grafted into the Community of the Triune God. The liturgy makes brotherhood among people possible. The categories of gratuitousness and communio are helpful guidepost for the understanding of Prades' liturgical Christology.Item Romano Guardiniego ponowożytny obraz świata(Stowarzyszenie Teologów Fundamentalnych w Polsce, 2013) Rossa, PiotrThe article presents a postmodern view of the world, as it is seen by Romano Guardini, one of the most important 20th century theologians of Italian and German descent. Gaurdini, who looks at the postmodern reality as a whole, notes a deep de-Christianization of the vision of man, his culture and his world. Nevertheless, Guardini expresses the hope that the postmodern Christian will be more radically guided by faith and trust in God’s action.Item Sakramenty w przekazie wiary Kościoła o Jezusie Chrystusie w świetle encykliki Lumen fidei(Włocławskie Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne, 2013) Rossa, PiotrThe article presents a reflection of the encyclical Lumen fidei on the role of the Sacraments in the transmission of faith. They are understood in light of this document as one of the forms of the Church’s communal memory. Of all the Sac-raments, Baptism and Eucharist are the most foundational ones in the experience of encountering Christ and journeying toward Him who is the end, toward whom man is striving.Item Sofiologiczna koncepcja ikony(Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza; Wydział Teologiczny, 2011) Rossa, PiotrThe article looks at sophiology as a phenomenon integral to Eastern Christianity, presented here as a fundamental notion needed for the understanding of what an icon is. Sophia points to a certain type of wholeness and meaning while remaining as an intermediate sphere between God and the world (creation). Reference to Sophia has become important for Russian thinkers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (V. Solovyov, S. Bulgakov, P. Florensky). Fundamentally, the notion of Sophia remains a reality which is personal, spiritual and dialogical in nature. This made it a difficult issue to contend with in the course of analytical research concerning this reality on the basis of rational notions. The approach to this reality from a unitive and dialogical perspective allowed for the appraisal of Sophia from the stand point of the New Testament, while recognizing in it a synthesis of apparently conflicting currents which are sensual, rational and spiritual in nature. This synthesis has found its particular reflection in the mystery of the Incarnation as the foundation for all iconology. God entrusted His own image and likeness to man in an irrevocable way, and in facing the tarnishing of this image by sin, the Creator appears in the midst of His creation in a totally unexpected manner as the God-Man. The renewal of God’s image in man takes place through service, suffering and the cross, while introducing creation once again into the perspective of the Triune God’s love.The image of God exists and remains in man, then, as the mystery of dignity and calling. This mystery is turned into a palpable reality by man in his enormity by getting closer to Christ, especially through the sacraments in the Church. The community of persons alone bears witness to the iconic dimension of mankind when human society patterns itself after the image of Most Holy Trinity.From this perspective of the Christian understanding of Sophia which is bound mainly to the Incarnate Word of God – Jesus Christ – Russian sophiologists make references to various depictions of beauty, as seen in icons. An icon constitutes for those thinkers a symbolic concretization of the ideal of beauty which directs the observer toward the Unseen. While an icon is read and interpreted under the categories of artwork, it actually also constitutes a revelation of God, a form of prayer and a means for prayer, as a way of dialogue and agreement with God. An icon, as a work of eschatological realism, basically shows forth the image and likeness of God in man. It also points to the impossibility of man’s annihilation. It brings to mind the source, the sense and the purpose of the world and mankind, as well as the role played by spaces (houses of worship) and actions (the liturgy), where icons are present. By finding (thanks to the icon and its presence) God’s mark and sense in man’s personal and universal history, the icon allows mankind to participate in the foretaste of the heavenly liturgy. The unequivocal understanding of the notion of Sophia by these Russian sophiologists as well as the posing of questions concerning the freedom of the human person in one’s encounter with Sophia have brought about some concerns already present in the works of thinkers living in the same era as the above mentioned intellectuals (E. Trubiecko, among others) .Item Stanowisko Kościoła w kwestii pokoju we współczesnym świecie(Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, 2016) Rossa, PiotrThe article takes up the theme of peace as both a particular good for humanity and an object of man’s constant concern. From a theological perspective, the source of peace is God Himself, who – as the Creator – instilled in man the desire for peace and calls him to introduce this gift into his relationships. In Christ’s teaching, justice and love are the two foundations of peace. The article points to the teaching of Vatican II and the magisterium of Conciliar and post-Conciliar Popes as the sources for the contemporary Church’s understanding of peace. They Popes have pointed to dialogue as a particular form of assistance in making peace a reality. Man learns how to live in peace from his earliest years, beginning from one’s familiar environment and thanks to educational influences beyond the home environment. Peace gives rise to the domain of social and political engagement, which, in turn becomes the foundation on which peace plays a significant role in resolving human conflicts on a larger or smaller scale.Item Świadectwo chrześcijańskie skarbem Kościoła(Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, 2014) Rossa, PiotrThe article discusses Christian witness as a possibility of making use of one’s freedom. The model for any Christian witness is Jesus Christ Himself, God’s only witness, „faithful and true” (Rev. 3,14). Christian witness is the imitation of Jesus Christ for the purpose of affirming one’s own union with God and leading others to faith in Christ by word and deed. The separation of these two realities from one another in Christian daily life leads to a non-evangelical alternative: either the deepening of one’s own faith or its proclamation to others. The documents of Vatican II and the teaching of Conciliar and post-Conciliar Popes show the unique role of Christian witness as it is realized in one’s everyday life both in the individual and communal sphere. Within the domain of Christian witness, the author of the article familiarizes the reader with the two aspects of putting Christian witness into practice: in the familial and religious sphere.Item Tradycja jako przekazywanie Bożego Objawienia w świetle dokumentu Międzynarodowej Komisji Teologicznej "Teologia dzisiaj: perspektywy, zasady, kryteria"(Włocławskie Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne, 2013) Rossa, PiotrThe author of the article reflects upon of the theme of handing down Revela-tion in light of International Theological Commission’s document, Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles and Criteria. The starting point in this handing-down process is a broadly-understood listening to the Word of God. Recognizing, in light of the Word, the revealed God in Jesus Christ, one sees the whole process which has taken place through Christ’s commission to the Apostles, that they proclaim the Gospel which has been announced and fulfilled by Him. The handing down process takes place through the words and life of the Apostles; it is committed to writing, and Scripture as well as Tradition are tightly bound in order for Revelation to be handed down. This process takes place in the Church by the power of the Holy Spirit. At the same time, the Church Magisterium – which is the College of Bishops who are the Apostles’ successors by the power of succession in union with the Pope as the head – authentically interprets the deposit of faith. In this handing down process, the mission of theologians is not only individual, but collegial as well.Item Trudności i szanse wychowania na współczesnym uniwersytecie: autorytet mistrza(Przedsiębiorstwo Produkcyjno-Handlowe ZAPOL, 2013) Rossa, PiotrThe university as a community of theachers and students is dedicated to the search for truth through scientific research. This search is intrinsically connected with the university's educational role. It is a role which, for centuries, has been bound up with the authority of the academic teacher who is also a mentor. Contemporary transformations have resulted in placing an ever growing emphasis on the student's professional training and a lesser emphasis on educational tasks. The modern university is characterized by an economization and an easy access to multiple fields of study. In spite of a frequent tendency to abandon the task of factual evaluation, the university retains some of its educational functions which are linked with the person who is both a teacher and a mentor, as for instance, in the case of a project coordinator.Item Znaki świętości Kościoła(Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2018) Rossa, PiotrThe article discusses the unique divine and human nature of the Church which contains in itself a dimension that is both deeper and mysterious as well as external and institutional. Among the attributes of the Church – one, holy, universal and Apostolic – it seems that holiness best describes the complexity of the Church’s existence. The source of holiness is the Triune God Himself in whom all holiness has its origin. It was fully revealed in the Person of Jesus Christ. Still, the Chosen People already recognized the signs of holiness and – in so doing – signaled the future fulfillment of holiness. These signs were seen in images and figures expressed by Old and New Testament and are contemporarily attributed to the Church, especially in the texts of Vatican II. Among the dominant images and figures, the following are noteworthy: the human organism as the Body of Christ, the People of God, the Bride, the Temple, the Mystery – sacramentum. All these images and figures show that the Church reflects the holiness of its source from which it originates: God Himself. The realization of this holiness in the Church is seen in the word of God, in Sacramental life, in graces and charisms, in the universal call of all the faithful to holiness and in the realization of holiness in the life of the faithful as a form of witness to Jesus Christ and to the Communion of Saints.Item Zwyczajna/niezwyczajna codzienność w opowiadaniach Karla Capka(Slovenske filozoficke zdruzenie, Polskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne, 2008) Rossa, PiotrThe article discusses the subject of everyday life in its twofold dimension, as the experience of banality and normality, as well as the possibility of deeper theological meaning. In doing so, the discussion refers to Karel Capek's Apocrypha Tales. First, the article points to every event, as understood from a historical and religious perspective. Next, it concentrates on the Bible, as a particular example of the possible historic and religious record of this event. Finally, in order to show his profound perception of human existence in its inception, duration and completion, the article points to the Apocryphal writings, as a record which is theological by nature. This is illustrated by the particular representative examples from the Tales (Holy Night, The Crucifixtion, and Lazarus.