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Studia Gdańskie Tom Xxxix STUDIA GDAŃSKIE TOM XXXIX STUDIA GEDANENSIA ISSN 0137-4338 GEDANI 2016 GDAŃSKIE SEMINARIUM DUCHOWNE STUDIA GDAŃSKIE TOM XXXIX GDAŃSK 2016 Rada naukowa ks. Janusz Balicki (Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie) ks. Wojciech Bęben (Uniwersytet Gdański) ks. Jacek Bramorski (Akademia Muzyczna w Gdańsku) ks. Andrzej Dańczak (Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne) Adam Drozdek (Duquesne University w Pittsburghu, USA) ks. Stanisław Dziekoński (Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie) ks. Dariusz Kotecki (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu) Dariusz Robert Mazurek OFM Conv. (Instituto Superior de Estudios Teologicos „Juan XXIII” w Limie, Peru) ks. Kazimierz Misiaszek (Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie) ks. Józef Niewiadomski (Leopold-Franzens-Universität w Innsbrucku, Austria) ks. Ivan Platovnjak (Univerza v Ljubljani, Słowenia) ks. Piotr Roszak (Universidad de Navarra w Pampelunie, Hiszpania) Redaktor naczelny ks. prof. UG, dr hab. Grzegorz Szamocki Sekretarz redakcji ks. mgr Łukasz Koszałka Redaktorzy tematyczni ks. dr hab. Grzegorz Szamocki, prof. UG - historia i nauki biblijne ks. prof. dr hab. Jan Perszon, UMK - teologia systematyczna ks. prof. dr hab. Wojciech Cichosz, UMK - teologia praktyczna ks. dr hab. Maciej Bała, prof. UKSW - flozofa i nauki społeczne Redaktorzy językowi ks. dr Maciej Kwiecień - język polski prof. UG dr hab. Jean Ward - native speaker Recenzenci tomu 39 (2016) Wojciech Gajewski, ks. Zygfryd Glaeser, bp Marcin Hintz, ks. Marek Karczewski, ks. Wiesław Kraiński, ks. Wiesław Łużyński, ks. Andrzej Najda, ks. Mieczysław Ozorowski, Katarzyna Parzych-Blakiewicz, ks. Adam Romejko, ks. Adam Skreczko, ks. Janusz Szulist, ks. Zbigniew Wanat, ks. Ireneusz Werbiński Deklaracja o wersji pierwotnej Czasopismo jest publikowane w wersji papierowej i elektronicznej. Wersją pierwotną jest wydanie papierowe Adres redakcji ul. Bpa Edmunda Nowickiego 3 80-330 Gdańsk tel.: 58 552 00 50 e-mail: [email protected] www.studiagdanskie.diecezja.gda.pl © Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne Skład i projekt okładki: Katolicka Agencja Marketingowa Spokokatolik Na okładce: fragment ryciny Antoniego Möllera, pt. Widok Gdańska z Biskupiej Górki (1592/1593), ze zbiorów Biblioteki Gdańskiej PAN Druk i oprawa Wydawnictwo „Bernardinum” Sp. z o.o. 83-130 Pelplin, ul. Bpa Dominika 11 tel./fax: 58 536 43 76 e-mail: biuroobsł[email protected] Wydawca Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska Spis treści Od Redakcji ....................................................................................................................................... 11 Editorial ............................................................................................................................................. 13 Artykuły URSZULA BRZOZOWSKA Miłość Boga w doświadczeniu duchowym Ozeasza (Oz 2,4-25) ..................................................... 19 KS. TOMASZ NAWRACAŁA Między prezbiterem a kapłanem. Kilka uwag o zmianie słownictwa w teologii kapłaństwa ........... 31 O. KRZYSZTOF NIEWIADOMSKI, OFMCAP Czy powinno się wyznawać swoje grzechy także poza sakramentem pojednania? Na podstawie rozważań bł. Jana Dunsa Szkota, św. Tomasza z Akwinu i innych autorów .......................................................................................... 49 KS. STANISŁAW SUWIŃSKI Nowe życie i duchowość chrzcielna ................................................................................................. 69 KS. PAWEŁ RABCZYŃSKI Kościół w ujęciu Carlo Marii Martiniego ......................................................................................... 81 MICHAŁ MIKOŁAJCZAK Eucharystia – źródło i szczyt życia i misji bł. Piera Giorgia Frassatiego ....................................... 101 KS. JAN UCHWAT Espiritualidad conyugal según Dietrich von Hildebrand ................................................................ 113 O. MIECZYSŁAW CELESTYN PACZKOWSKI OFM Dyplomacja i religia. Zakonnicy franciszkańscy u sułtanów w Stambule. ..................................... 127 MATEUSZ IHNATOWICZ Charakterystyka operacyjna jezuitów Prowincji Wielkopolsko-Mazowieckiej na podstawie materiałów aparatu bezpieczeństwa w Polsce Ludowej z lat 1945-1989 ....................................... 139 KS. TOMASZ DUTKIEWICZ Filozofczny spór o przedmiot poznania, a koncepcja poznania duchów czystych w wykładzie angelologii św. Tomasza z Akwinu ............................................................................ 151 6 Spis treści KS. ŁUKASZ PONDEL Hermeneutyka symbolu w ujęciu Paula Ricoeura .......................................................................... 165 KS. ARKADIUSZ OLCZYK Zagrożenie infltracją ze strony sekt w kontekście patologizacji życia rodzinnego ....................... 175 KS. MAREK KLUZ Odpowiedzialność za Ojczyznę w zjednoczonej Europie w ujęciu księdza profesora Jerzego Bajdy ..................................................................................... 191 MAGDALENA PARZYSZEK Chrześcijaństwo jako czynnik integracji społeczno-duchowej całej ludzkości. Implikacje pedagogiczne ................................................................................................................. 207 KS. JANUSZ BALICKI, ANNE WELLS Attitudes Towards Muslims and Hindus in England.Are British People Afraid of Muslims? ........ 219 KS. MIROSŁAW PISKOZUB Radzenie sobie ze stresem w pracy katechetycznej ........................................................................ 235 MAGDALENA EWA RUSZEL Psychologiczne aspekty zamykania się młodzieży na religię ......................................................... 245 Recenzje i omówienia KS. WOJCIECH CICHOSZ (REC.) Ks. Wiesław Łużyński (red.), Bóg jest miłością. Komentarz do encykliki Benedykta XVI, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Toruń 2015, s. 215. ...................................................................... 259 KS. IRENEUSZ WERBIŃSKI(REC.) Zofa Kuźniewska, Działalność charytatywna w archidiakonatach kruszwickim i włocławskim diecezji kujawskiej i pomorskiej, Wydawnictwo Gaudentinum, Gniezno 2015, s. 274. ................. 263 KS. ADAM ROMEJKO (REC.) Andrzej Kubka, Modele demokracji w Skandynawii, Wydawnictwo LIBRON, Kraków 2016, s. 162. ............................................................................. 269 KS. ADAM ROMEJKO (REC.) Krzysztof Ogiolda (red.), Rozmowy na 10-lecie Ustawy o mniejszościach narodowych i etnicznych. Gespräche über das zehnjährige Bestehen des Gesetzes über nationale und estnische Minderheiten, Dom Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej, Gliwice – Opole 2015, s. 255. .......................................... 277 Spis treści 7 KS. ŁUKASZ KOSZAŁKA Dylan M. Burns, Apocalypse of the Alien God. Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2014, s. XVII+321..................................................................................................................................... 287 MATEUSZ IHNATOWICZ (REC.) Dorota Koczwańska-Kalita, (Nie)chciane dziecko III RP. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej 2000-2010. Geneza, funkcjonowanie, kontekst społeczny i polityczny, Wydawnictwo ARCANA, Kraków 2015, s. 470. .............................................................................................................................................. 291 8 Contents Contents Editorial ............................................................................................................................................. 13 Articles URSZULA BRZOZOWSKA The Love of God in Hosea’s Spiritual Experience (Hos 2,4-25) ...................................................... 30 KS. TOMASZ NAWRACAŁA Between Presbyter and Priest. A Few Comments on Changes of Language in the Theology of Priesthood .................................................................. 47 O. KRZYSZTOF NIEWIADOMSKI, OFMCAP Should One also Reveal One’s Sins Outside the Sacrament of Reconciliation? Discussion Based on the Deliberations of Bl. John Duns Scotus, St. Thomas Aquinas and Other Authors........................................................ 67 KS. STANISŁAW SUWIŃSKI New Life and Baptismal Spirituality ................................................................................................. 79 KS. PAWEŁ RABCZYŃSKI The Church in the View of Carlo Maria Martini ............................................................................. 100 MICHAŁ MIKOŁAJCZAK The Eucharist - Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of P.G. Frassati ................................ 111 KS. JAN UCHWAT Conjugal Spirituality in Dietrich von Hildebrand ........................................................................... 126 O. MIECZYSŁAW CELESTYN PACZKOWSKI OFM Religion and Diplomacy. The Franciscan Friars at the Sultans‘ in Istanbul ................................... 138 MATEUSZ IHNATOWICZ Operational Characteristics of the Jesuit Province of Greater Poland and Mazovia on the Basis of Materials of the Security Apparatus in People’s Poland in the Years 1945-1989 ........................... 150 KS. TOMASZ DUTKIEWICZ The Philosophical Dispute over the Subject of Cognition and the Concept of Cognition of Pure Spirits in St. Thomas Aquinas’ Lecture on Angelology ................................................................. 164 KS. ŁUKASZ PONDEL Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Symbols ....................................................................................... 173 KS. ARKADIUSZ OLCZYK The Threat of Infltration by Sects in the Context of Family Life .........................................................................................................
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