Simone Weil’s questions about God

dc.contributor.authorKotkowska, Elżbieta
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T08:14:12Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T08:14:12Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractWe can say that the 20th century was not an era for seeking the truth in the first place. Philosophers and others were absorbed with the idea that we cannot know anything for certain. No one is able to claim that something is really true. However, we can find philosophers who were willing to die for the truth. We can discover them in the Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Churches. For example, father Pavel Florensky, a Russian philosopher and priest, played an important role in solving the problem of correlation between culture and religion. He died executed by the firing squad at the Solovki Gulag on December 8th, 1937. Another such philosopher was St. Edith Stein. She was martyred equally for the truth of the Catholic Faith and for the truth of Mosaic Faith. Edith Stein was put on a train heading for the East and died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz probably on 9th August, 1942. The third person, who died for the truth in those horrible times, was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The integrity of his Christian faith and life led him to a concentration camp, where he was hanged on April 9th, 1945. Looking at those great people of European history in the 20th century, we can see some contrasts and similarities to the life and activity of a French thinker – Simone Weil. Simone Weil was looking for the truth all her life. She was Jewish, but she was attracted to Roman Catholicism and sure that the truth is in God. Simone Weil persuades us that it is at the same time possible and impossible to know God, because “Dieu ne peut ętre présent dans la création que sous la forme de l’absence”.pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationPhenomena of Crisis. The Paschal Dimension of Suffering, red. Elżbieta Kotkowska, i inni, seria Maneat Quaestio, Poznań, Wydział Teologiczny UAM 2006, s. 85–102.pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn8389361930
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/14821
dc.language.isoengpl_PL
dc.publisherWydział Teologiczny UAMpl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.titleSimone Weil’s questions about Godpl_PL
dc.title.alternativeSimone Weil pytanie o Bogapl_PL
dc.typeRozdział z książkipl_PL

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