Ecumeny and Law Vol. 5 Youth – Church – Evangelism Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego · Katowice 2017 Editor-in-chief Andrzej Pastwa Deputy editor-in-chief Józef Budniak Secretaries Kinga Karsten, Marek Rembierz Head of ecumeny department Zdzisław Kijas Head of law department Piotr Kroczek Scientific board Head Cyril Vasil’ (archbishop, Roma) Members Leszek Adamowicz (Lublin), František Čitbaj (Prešov), Andrzej Czaja (bishop, Opole), Pavol Dancák (Prešov), Alojzy Drożdż (Katowice), Nicolae V. Dură (Constanţa), Ginter Dzierżon (Warszawa), Tomasz Gałkowski (Warszawa), Zygfryd Glaeser (Opole), Wojciech Góralski (Warszawa), Wojciech Hanc (Warszawa), Marcin Hintz (bishop, Warszawa), Janusz Kowal (Roma), Adrian Loretan (Luzern), Damián Němec (Olomouc), Urszula Nowicka (Warszawa), Theodosie Petrescu (archbishop, Constanţa), Marek Petro (Prešov), Wilhelm Rees (Innsbruck), Gerda Riedl (Augsburg), Peter Šturák (Prešov), Peter Szabó (Budapest), Jerzy Szymik (Katowice), Marek Jerzy Uglorz (Warszawa) Statistical editor Wojciech Świątkiewicz English language editor Michelle Adamowski French language editor Dorota Śliwa Italian language editor Agnieszka Gatti The publication is available online among others at: Central and Eastern European Online Library www.ceeol.com The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences ERIH PLUS https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus Index Copernicus International www.index.copernicus.com Table of contents Part One Ecumenical Theological Thought Wojciech Świątkiewicz Marriage and Family in Life Projects of Contemporary Youth 9 Stanisława Mielimąka, Michał Mielimąka The Challenges of Becoming a Woman 27 Pavol Dancák The Ethos of Education and the Ethos of Christianity 45 Jacek Kurzępa Conditions of an Efficient Dialogue with the Contemporary Youth 57 Aleksander R. Bańka Youth and Experience of Living Faith. The Essential Aspects of the Path to Christian Maturity 81 Przemysław Sawa Is That a Really New Spirituality? Basics and Signs of the Spirituality of the New Evangelization — the Case of Poland 95 Part Two Ecumenical Juridical Thought Cătălina Mititelu The “Globalization Era” and the Right of the Church to Preach the Gospel to All Peoples. Canonical-Juridical Considerations and Assessments 127 Nicolae V. Dură The Right to the “Freedom of Conscience”, Legal Basis for the Educational and Missionary Activity of Religious Denominations 147 4 Table of contents Zbigniew Janczewski The Sacrament of Confirmation as a Call to the Evangelization Directed to- wards Young People 171 Damián Němec Contemporary Youth and the Preparation for Priesthood 185 Małgorzata Tomkiewicz Modern Youth vs. Preparation for Family Life. Legal Issues 201 Monika Menke Young People at Present and Their Preparation for Religious Life 217 Andrzej Pastwa Ius connubii Today — Legal and Pastoral Perspective 235 Lucjan Świto Resolution in Favour of Marriage — an Oppressive Relic of the Past? The favor matrimonii Principle in Contemporary Law 263 Stanislav Přibyl Pastoral Care of Youth in the Czech Republic — Legal Aspects 277 Part Three Reviews Marta Majorek: Kod YouTube. Od kultury partycypacji do kultury kreatywności. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Universitas, 2015, pp. 240. — Michał Drożdż (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland) 291 Maria Teresa Lizisowa: Komunikacyjna teoria języka prawnego. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe CONTACT, 2016, pp. 492. — Michał Drożdż (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland) 295 Michał Gierycz: Europejski spór o człowieka. Studium z antropologii poli- tycznej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, 2017, pp. 616. — Arkadiusz Wuwer (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) 299 Klinika Dziennikarstwa — Credo. Eds. Kazimierz Wolny-Zmorzyński, Ka- tarzyna Konarska. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2016, pp. 168 — Alojzy Drożdż (University of Silesia in Katowice, Po- land) 303 Twarze Świętości. Eds. Katarzyna Dybeł, Zofia Zarębianka. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II, 2016, pp. 154 — Alojzy Drożdż (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) 307 Jerguš Olejár: Cyril Jeruzalemský a Martin Luther. Liptovský Mikuláš: Trano- scius, 2009, pp. 144. — Lucjan Klimsza (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) 309 Table of contents 5 Jerzy Sojka: Czytanie Reformatora. Marcin Luter i jego pisma. Wisła: Wydawnictwo Luteranin, 2017, pp. 250 — Józef Budniak (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) 311 Billy Graham: „Ewangelizator w rozdartym świecie”. Studium ekumeniczne Ed. Adam Palion. [Oecumenica Silesiana, Vol. 1]. Katowice 2015, pp. 194 — Adam Palion (Akademia Ekumeniczna i Dialogu Międzyreligijnego) 313 Notes on Contributors 317 Part One Ecumenical Theological Thought Ecumeny and Law, vol. 5 (2017) pp. 9—25 Wojciech Świątkiewicz University of Silesia in Katowice Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Marriage and Family in Life Projects of Contemporary Youth Keywords: youth, family, marriage, religion, values Like culture, like family Contemporary culture seems to be characterized by a notion of inces- sant, multidirectional change, a loss of one’s identity for the sake of trans- formations and extreme forms of networked decentralization. Nowadays, cultural changes are commonly categorized with respect to their histori- cally unparalleled pace as well as the multilateral nature of axiological ref- erences and symbolic interpretations, which is referred to as a condition of warpedness. Both the post-modern dissolution of basic moral terms and the deconstruction of cultural ecumene could be subsumed within the aforementioned notion of warpedness. The values of liberty, equality, fraternity, once conceived as symbolic figures of modernity, are becom- ing dethroned by latitude, diversity and tolerance conceived of as values orchestrating the direction of contemporary changes in culture.1 Knowl- edge is fragile, and ethos is being fitted into changing socio-cultural con- texts, thereby losing its durability and the certitude of applied cognitive or axiological criteria. Changeability seems to constitute the sole long-lasting value. In this sense, individualization of human choices, egocentrism of 1 Z. Bauman: Modernity and Ambivalence. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. 10 Wojciech Świątkiewicz motivations and inherent subjectivity of ethical judgements make the cre- ation of social structures difficult. The category of social structure clearly applies to marriage which may be perceived in terms of a social group founded by the man and woman with an underlying intension of its dis- solubility — which is expressed in the Christian doctrine as an institution lasting until one of the spouses’ demise — and its subsequent transforma- tion into the structure of family based on kinship ties, either biological or adoptive. Since ideologized egocentrism aims to emancipate an individual from social relations based on mutual obligations and responsibilities, it also submits the said relationships to the principle of self-actualization conceived as an incessant pursuit of entertainment, wealth, power, or self-realization. The ideology of radical egocentrism “gathers its follow- ers easily because it knows how to entice them: new idols say that being oneself and jumping at occasions is sufficient enough to learn that there are no limits, and no greater effort is needed to obtain everything and everyone.”2 What follows are the main tendencies with respect of changes of con- temporary culture: 1. Social differentiation leading to the atomization of diversified spheres of social life (i.e. family, economy, work, culture, science, politics, reli- gion, etc.) which remain interrelated to a certain degree, but stay inde- pendent in normative and behavioral ways. The tendency, to a certain extent, becomes manifested as the privatization and individualization of cultural significance attributed to the family. While diagnosing the directions of changes in contemporary culture, T. N. Clark and Ronald Inglehart postulate that the diminishing role of the family facilitates individualization and differentiations of tastes, which becomes con- ducive for tolerating diversity of lifestyles. Likewise, by enabling the execution of rights towards new individuals or types of social activity, the changes foster the development of a new political culture3 in which the role of natural family diminishes, and family-related problems are generally conceived as private issues. When understood as a self-suffi- cient component of social system, the family becomes disconnected from its traditionally robust ties with the religious component of social system. This process is multidimensional and could be represented as a delegitimization processes with regard to the sacramental character 2 “An interview with Professor Zbigniew Stawrowski.” Interview by Bogumił Łoziński. Available at: http://religie.wiara.pl/doc/3334109.Samobojstwo-Zachodu (date of access: 1.09.2016). 3 T. N. Clark, R. Inglehart: The New Political Culture. Changing Dynamics of Sup- port for the Welfare State and Other Politics in Post-Industrial Societies. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1990. Marriage and Family in Life Projects of Contemporary Youth 11 of marital union. The decreasing marriage rate becomes concurrent with an increase in the number of civil marriages with regard to the number of marriages taken according to the Code of Canon Law.4 In the context of Polish society, the secularization of mentality is more evident in the case of young Poles,