Theological Research: Recent submissions

  • Greek Models of Life up to Plato’s Philosophy and its Influence on the Christian Life in the Early Church 
    Baron, Arkadiusz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2015)
    This article deals with the issue of ancient Greek models of life up to the time of Plato’s philosophy. The author presents in a brief way the ideals in the writing of Homer’s and Hesiod’s, in the Pericleus’ speech from ...
  • Immutability of God in Christian Terms 
    Drzyżdżyk, Szymon; Kosińska, Zuzanna (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    This article deals with the issue of the immutability of God in Himself. What is meant by “immutability” and why God should (or must) be immutable? Doesn’t He – whom Christians preach – contradict His immutability by showing ...
  • Ethique et Politique 
    Bruguès, Jean-Louis (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    The lecture engages the debate concerning the relation between politics and ethics. Ethics is the guardian of good practice and policy the guardian of the quality of life in the community. The author discusses their mutual ...
  • Monastic Exegesis and the Biblical Typology of Monasticism in the Patristic Period 
    Kasprzak, Dariusz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    Monastic exegesis of the Bible in the Patristic period was characterized by ascetic pragmatism, reminiscence and meditation of the canonical text and at the same time its extra-verbal literal and spiritual interpretation. ...
  • Christian Anthropology Versus the New Anthropology and the Quest for Human Perfection 
    Kraj, Tomasz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    In the current debate, we witness a conflict between the Christian concept of man vs. concepts that justify in vitro fertilization (IVF), genetic enhancement, or the reassignment of sexuality. Modern concepts cannot disregard ...
  • Natura Pura: A Concept for the New Evangelization 
    Seiler, Christopher M. (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    This article explores the concept of Natura Pura. It addresses its aspects both from the point of Scholastic thought as seen especially in the thinking of Thomas Aquinas. It also addresses the metaphysical question in ...
  • Life as Relation: Classical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Ontology 
    Maspero, Giulio (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    Life is a theological and metaphysical problem, because it constitutes the apex of the realm of being. The Aristotelian Unmoved Mover was identified with Life as the act of thinking. Christian doctrine affirms that God is ...
  • The Necessity of Faith in the Church in the Age of Secularization 
    Napiórkowski, Andrzej (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2014)
    This article explores the causes and shifts of the ever-growing secularization in the modern world. It also examins and the idea that Christ can be discovered without the Church as well as, how the faith of the Church can ...
  • Candidus, Marius Victorinus’ fictitious friend, and his doctrine of the “Logos” 
    Baron, Arkadiusz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    This article elaborates the term Logos in two fictitious letters of Candidus, which Marius Victorinus wrote to present Arian points of view concerning the Trinitarian debate in the middle of the 4th century. The article ...
  • The Theological Principles Underlying. Augustine’s “City of God” 
    Kasprzak, Dariusz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    In his treatise the City of God Augustine intended to show that the pagans anti-Christian charges blaming the Christians for the fall of Rome were unsubstantiated and that it was in Christianity that they could find the ...
  • Résurrection et Nouveauté aux premiers temps de l’Église 
    Wolinski, Joseph (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    The article is aimed to prove the importance of the event of the resurrection for early theology (Scripture and patristic theology of the 2nd and 3rd centuries). This importance has been obscured down through the centuries. ...
  • Ist Nächstenliebe möglich? Versuch einer philosophisch-theologischen Positionsbestimmung 
    Breitsameter, Christof (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    The attempt of a modern interpretation of the concept of charity which is pivotal to Jewish-Christian ethics as well as the occidental culture can hardly succeed without a dialogue with those disciplines studying the secular ...
  • The Role of Virtue Ethics... in Determining Acceptable Limits of Genetic Enhancement 
    Kraj, Tomasz (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    There are always new proposals concerning the application of new genetic technology. Some of them concern the genetic enhancement of man. There are four groups of such proposals, labeled as: better children, better ...
  • Christology and the ‘Scotist Rupture’ 
    Riches, Aaron (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, 2013)
    This essay engages the debate concerning the so-called ‘Scotist rupture’ from the point of view of Christology. The essay investigates John Duns Scotus’s development of Christological doctrine against the strong Cyrilline ...

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