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Świat i Słowo
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2014
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vol. 12
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issue (2)23
67-82
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As such, religious thinking is a special kind of thinking. To think is to linger within a question while not allowing the question to dissolve in political correctness, i.e. to get fossilized in thought-less certainty. Religious thinking carries us away to continual novelty and lets us get inspired by that “else” and “somewhere else”. Religious thinking is unable to be satisfied with anything that is makeshift or temporary, yet aspiring to be ultimate and uncontested.
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In the current shape (or rather shapelessness) of the modern world, we are uncreasingly faced with the otherness of another person. We meet with strange cognitive horizons, radically different points of view. We understand more and more clearly the issue of multiplicity (however not insurmountable strangeness) of human conversations. In 1991 in Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw John Paul II said: “I do not want, dear brothers and sisters, just to tolerate you. What are brothers and sisters who just tolerate each other? We really are dearly beloved children of God, precious sons in Son of God, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit; we started to love the Gospel”. The Pope’s claim seems to reveal some new and unexpected horizons of opening (revealing) oneself to another person. The fact that human mind is an uncertain tool and that our cognitive perspectives are limited can never be a reason for us to get rid of this faint flame illuminating human paths. Only that flame, vigilant towards any signs of totalism, open towards otherness, united with the most secret desires of a human being, has the power to reveal new perspectives of being human among other people.
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Świat i Słowo
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2013
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vol. 11
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issue 2(21)
53-66
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Using a semantically capacious category of decline with reference to the history of Christianity, we clearly see that decline, fall, exhausting of some historical formations of Christianity do not necessarily indicate the gradual disappearance of a evangelical kerygma. On the contrary, it is a chance for a fuller development and bringing forth the hidden novelty of Christ’s message. Thus Nietzsche’s thought (and similar ideas) can be perceived as a refreshing wave which inspires us to reveal and deepen our understanding of the Gospel’s potential.
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The subject or the present essay is a critical rationalism of Leszek Kołakowski, a philosopher who is a scholar and a jester, and who tracks down cognitive and speculative limitations of reason. While questioning the belief in reason, Kołakowski exposed illusions, proved that the reason quite often behaves unreasonably (when it serves ideologies). The author analyses the development of the philosopher’s thinking which led him to the conclusion that the scientific rationalism, which has deceived Christianity proved to be helpless in the face of the world without God
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