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Poeci czasu Soboru: Wojtyła, Twardowski, Pasierb

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SOCHOŃ F. J.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2012

vol. 25

issue 4 (100)

The article presents three artistic strategies inspired by the event of Second Vatican Council and applied in the poetry of, respectively, Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II), Fr. Jan Twardowski, and Fr. Janusz Pasierb. One may rightly claim that had it not been for Pope John XXIII’s decision to convene the Council, their poetic work would have followed a different direction. While the three poets certainly differed in their approach to poetry as such, what they shared was that each of them pursued his own personal project of poetic theology, its center being man. Each of them, in his poems, referred to the new situation of the human being in the modern world, with its preference of liberal attitudes, the prevailing license of opinion, religious indifference, growing distance from the Church and tradition, and its abandonment of the conduct described in the Gospels. Wojtyła, as well as Twardowski and Pasierb, perceived the remedy for this situation in the new vision of the reality provided by the Council. The core of that vision was that the people of modern times, whether they believe in God or do not recognize him explicitly, should perceive clearly the integrity of their vocation and, having adopted the attitude of love, act in order that human dignity is respected and the brotherhood of all human beings deepened. The attitude of love was considered by the three poets as the only possibility to respond to the burning issues of the new age. The poetic sensibilities of Wojtyła (John Paul II), Twardowski and Pasierb opened the Church onto original poetic voices and lyrical emotions. Their accomplishment is still alive in the ongoing process of building a world in which God, man and culture, the fruit man’s effort, constitute a unity. In the name of the highest good, this unity needs to be constantly deepened and reinforced.

Kultura gestu i słowa Jana Pawła II

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SOCHOŃ F. J.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2012

vol. 25

issue 1 2(97 98)

In the article, the category of the “culture of gesture and word” is implemented in order to show how words accompanied by specific gestures played an important role in the pastoral activity of Karol Wojtyla, and later Pope John Paul II. In the case of the late Pope one may even speak about a hermeneutics of gesture. While drawing on certain classical theses of metaphysical anthropology, the author demonstrates how John Paul II succeeded in restoring the lost meanings of some gestures and in creating absolutely new ones which, in time, were commonly accepted and became part of a wide range of symbolic behaviours. Among the famous gestures made by John Paul II during his travels were putting on an Indian feather headdress, expressing elation over the break dance performed in front of him by young people or gaily waving his walking stick. These and other gestures of this kind were received with great enthusiasm and joy as they showed the Pope’s admiration for cultures and traditions other than european. At the same time they visibly expressed John Paul II’s spiritual zeal and epitomized the creativity inherent in God’s relation to man, revealed in the saving ministry of Christ. Not infrequently did the message John Paul II conveyed to the world, as well as the gestures that accompanied it, create situations surprising also in the semiotic sense: they would awaken entire peoples from their religious or political «slumber» (the latter being the case with Poles) and enhance their sense of pride with their histories and cultures. Pope John Paul II triggered off chains of gestures of goodwill, thus generating human solidarity, strenghtening people’s faith in God as well as their openess to others. Side by side with cementing the social bonds, he was creating a broad perspective of thinking in which life is a human pilgrimage to God. The concluding parts of the article focus on John Paul II’s theology of vision, manifested in particular throughout his interactions with people, and on his gesture of kissing the soil of the nations he visited. Both these gestures are analyzed with regard to their impact on broadly defined contemporary religious, social and political culture.

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