Apologia Kościoła w dzisiejszej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej
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Date
2012
Authors
Rossa, Piotr
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Stowarzyszenie Teologów Fundamentalnych w Polsce
Title alternative
Apology of The Church in modern Eastern and Central Europe
Abstract
The 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.
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Artykuł został opracowany do udostępnienia w internecie przez Muzeum Historii Polski w ramach prac podejmowanych na rzecz zapewnienia otwartego, powszechnego i trwałego dostępu do polskiego dorobku naukowego i kulturalnego. Artykuł jest umieszczony w kolekcji cyfrowej bazhum.muzhp.pl gromadzącej zawartość polskich czasopism humanistycznych i społecznych.
Keywords
European Union, Europe (Central, Eastern), Berlin Wall, Prague Spring, Solidarity, apology, World War II, transformation (sociopolitical), Judaism, martyrdom, Kościół, Jan Paweł II, Benedykt XVI, Tertio Millenio Adveniente, świadectwo, nadzieja
Citation
P. Rossa, Apologia Kościoła w dzisiejszej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, [w:] red. F. Krauze, P. Rabczyński, Apologia Kościoła dzisiaj, Gdańsk - Olsztyn - Bydgoszcz 2012, s. 117-138.
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Biblioteka Teologii Fundamentalnej;7
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2084-5731