952 research outputs found
"Hours", "days", and "times" - Exploring the Temporal Realm
No full textSłowo wstępne ks. prof. dr. hab. Henryka Witczyka, założyciela "Verbum Vitae".Preface to the volume by Professor Henryk Witczyk, a founder of the journal "Verbum Vitae"
Eternal Punishment - what's that?
No full textSłowo wstępne redaktora naczelnego, ks. prof. dr. hab. Henryka Witczyka (KUL).Editorial written by Editor-in-Chief, Professor Henryk Witczyk (KUL)
Henryk Witczyk (red.), Nowy słownik teologii biblijnej (Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL – Kielce: Wydawnictwo "Jedność" 2017)
No full textRecenzja książki: Ks. Henryk Witczyk (red.), Nowy słownik teologii biblijnej (Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL – Kielce: Wydawnictwo JEDNOŚĆ 2017). Ss. 1023. PLN 75,65. ISBN 978-83-7971-603-6 Book review: Ks. Henryk Witczyk (red.), Nowy słownik teologii biblijnej (Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL – Kielce: Wydawnictwo JEDNOŚĆ 2017). Ss. 1023. PLN 75,65. ISBN 978-83-7971-603-6
Bóg nieskory do gniewu - bogaty w miłosierdzie (Ps 103)
No full textIn Psalm 103, God is portrayed as full of mercy, slow to anger. The author asks himself: how can one conciliate the picture of God who in His mercy heals the sinner with the image of God who is angry. The author analyzes several ways in which God's mercy is revealed in relation to the sinner and various forms of sin. Mercy means God's way of leading man away from evil, from the sin of pride, and particularly idolatry. Sins, which destroy man and tear him away from God arouse anger in God. The autbor proves that God, in showing mercy to man who realizes the effects of his sins and calls to Him, removes in this way the cause o f His anger. There are two images of God in Psalm 103 and in other Old Testament texts which are not in contradiction: a God of mercy and a God of anger. However, they should be seen dynamically: anger invokes mercy, which is always possible then, when man turns to God, who is God of the Covenant
Kapłańska misja ochrzczonych w świecie (Hbr 13,16; 10,22-25)
No full textThe author of the Letter to the Hebrews does not stop on presenting the priesthood of Christ. He also speaks of the participation of Christians in uniting people with God in the mission of the crucified and resurrected Jesus. First he pays attention to the "sacrifice" which all ought to give, more precisely, with those sacrifices God is content with in a new phase of salvation history, opened by the only sacrifice of Christ of the New Covenant (Heb 13, 16). Next, he explains that the typical for the baptized three attitudes - faith, hope and love - are the fullest form of uniting with the Highest Priest of our confession and from His sacrificial message in the world (Heb l0, 22-25). The three confinned essential dynamics of Christian existence (faith, hope and love) form the spiritual basis of a Christian towards Christ, the Archpriest, who offers a Sacrifice of expiation and the New Covenant and His Paschal Sacrifice. They cause that Christians live united with Him, and thanks to this uniting, they place their existence in the process of transformation, "perfected", "transfiguration", which was done first in the crucified and resurrected Jesus (Archpriest), and now is done in them - the participants in His priestly mission. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews does not cease, however, to show spiritual attitudes. He also points out the concrete, visible situation and means, thanks to which a Christian participates in priestly mediation of Christ, in His Sacrifice, and receives salvation flowing from it. At the same time he shows what the essence o f the "sacrifice" of those dear to God is (obedience and love ), which they ought to give
The Truth of Sacred Scripture as the Fruit of Inspiration
No full textThe author enlightens the novel approach to the question of truth of Sacred Scripture as presented in the recent document by Pontifical Biblical Commission, “The Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture.” The approach is projected on the background of the teaching on inspiration in the period before, during and after the Vatican Council II. The author stresses the shift that occurred from speaking of the truth necessary for salvation to the truth on God that wants to save man. The word of God as inspired comes from God and speaks about Him. The truth of Sacred Scripture has a performative and polyphonic character; it’s expressed in forms that are historically and literally conditioned. It’s disclosed in the subsequent books of the Bible side by side to the development of the history of salvation. The content of the truth of Sacred Scripture in the first place consists of the truth on God, the Creator who reveals himself as a person in Jesus Christ. The truth about salvation is focused on the resurrection of Christ and on the message about a Christian who becomes the heir of the Kingdom of God. It stresses, with the special power, the role of the word of God in the process of man’s salvation. The “true word of God” is a carrier of the salvific novelty of Christ the Lord who changes the “old man” into the “new creation.
Błogosławieństwo wiary. Od posłuszeństwa Abrahama do wiary Piotra i Kościoła
No full textRecenzja: Review: Ks. Henryk Witczyk, Błogosławieństwo wiary. Od posłuszeństwa Abrahama do wiary Piotra i Kościoła (Kielce: Jedność 2015)Review: Ks. Henryk Witczyk, Błogosławieństwo wiary. Od posłuszeństwa Abrahama do wiary Piotra i Kościoła (Kielce: Jedność 2015
Nowa ofiara podstawą Nowego Przymierza (Hbr 8-9)
No full textAn exegesis of the central part of The Letter to the Hebrews (8, 1-9, 28) leads to the conclusion that the author of this NT message, being faithful to Biblical tradition (prophetic announcement texts and OT cultic ritual laws) as well as Gospel tradition from the Last Supper gives the conviction that the death and resurrection of Jesus fulfill the Sinai Covenant, particularly its very core, meaning the cult it aimed to attain but did not. Essentially, the earthly shrine in Jerusalem was not the way to heaven, the high priest was a sinful man and did not have a sacrifice uniting the people (man) with God. This cult had a role of a design for the fully effective and final cult. Apparently the Sinai Covenant, according to The Letter to the Hebrews, is an elapsing (aging; temporal) outline of the "New Covenant", the lasting and definitive Covenant-Testament. The autbor shows that tbe relationship between the Sinai Covenant and the New Covenant-Testament in the Letter to the Hebrews is like that between the outline of a picture and the actual picture, in effect a relationship of:- A continuation of that, which comprises the main ideas (a bond between God and people );-A lack in continuation of important institutions (the OT cult);- Radical newness (the sacrifice of Christ joining man with God through the resurrection).The Sinai Covenant is the model of the New Covenant-Testament - the only one for all peoples without exception, as well as the "new and living Way" to God for all - Jews and pagans - it is Jesus Christ, the perfect Man and true Son ofGod "The New Covenant" is not a renewal of the Sinai Covenant, but being a continuation of the old, first way, is at the same time a completely new kind of way. "The New Covenant" is centered about the High Priest, who "once and for all" offered himself as sacrifice and in this way "opened (in himself) the new and living Way" (Heb 10,20a). There is no other Way to the living God for any man on earth in order to be united with Him for ages
Jezus przynosi Ewangelię Samarii (J 4,1-42)
No full textJesus, speaking with the Sarnacitan woman, and next with the inhabitants of Samaria, fulfills the "work" which he received from his Father to accomplish. In its essence it is a work of revelation and is done giving people "the gift of God" on which are based the gift of the Gospel (Truth) and gift ofthe Holy Spirit (Spirit of Truth). Accepting these two gifts of God from Jesus changes the person and life of the Samaritan woman and the inhabitants of Samaria. Jesus fulfills the, work of revelation, on which the salvation of the world depends, not only in Judea and Galilee, but also among Samaritans, the inheritants of the old kingdom of Israel, who due to difficult histoncal experiences became the followers of a syncretic religion. In reality they did not cease to follow the patriarch Jacob and worship the only God on mount Garizim, however through orthodox believers of Judaism they were considered separated from God and His blessings heralding finał salvation due to their mingling of the revealed religion with cults brought in over the ages from Babylon. Jesus Himself challenged them to hecorne followers of the authentic, new religion - "in the Spirit and in Truth."The author of the fourth Gospel teaches that Jesus "had to" go through Samaria, because in the saving plan of God it was to be that He first meet with the Samaritan woman, and next with the town's inhabitants. They are also called by God to be able to discover in Jesus the "Savior of the world." God, who sent Jesus into the world, is not only God of Israel, although ,,salvation has its beginning fromthe Jews." God, the Father of Jesus, is also Father of all peoples, beginning with orthodox Israel upholding forages faith in Him as the Only God. Turning to all the nations of the earth with His gifts, God, the Father ofJesus, begins with those who not only geographically but prlmarily through salvation history are closest to Israel - from the Samaritans
The Lord’s Supper – the Memorial of Jesus’ Passion, Death and Resurrection as the Sacrifice of Expiation “for Many” and the Sacrifice of the New Covenant (1 Cor 11:23-27; Luke 22:19-20)
No full textResearch on the role of oral tradition (orality) in the process of Gospel and Pauline letters composition provides a basis for the synchronic reading of the traditions on the Last Supper (Matt 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:14-14-20; 1 Cor 11:23-26). The author, taking into consideration the data contained in the mentioned textual traditions, seeks an answer to the question of what Jesus recommended to his disciples in the Cenacle by saying: “Do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24). The author enters into a polemic with the latest theories according to which Jesus intended to celebrate the Last Supper as a “covenant sacrifice”, precisely speaking a “feast of covenant”. Through the analysis of the formulas pronounced over bread and wine, which take into consideration the texts on the suffering and death of Jahwe’s Servant (Isa 53), the author seeks to demonstrate that Jesus applied to his death the sense of the sacrifice of expiation which also establishes the New Covenant. To interpret the formulas only in light of “covenant sacrifice/feast” means to radically diminish the meaning of the prophetic words and gestures of Jesus from the Last Supper
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