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In my paper I consider the question, whether one can reconcile radical apophatic perspective with the realistic interpretation of religious discourse. Both are supported by very important religious intuitions, but seem to be mutually inconsistent. In order to show what form of “apophatic realism” is possible to hold, I analyze the thought of Nicolas of Cusa: fifteenth century mystic and philosopher, whose thought does justice to the deepest religious intuitions and can be inspiring, and – in its basic principles – also tenable, even in XXI century.
Forum Philosophicum
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2007
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vol. 12
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issue 2
458-464
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The article reviews the book Słowa i zbawienie. Dyskurs religijny w perspektywie filozofii Hilarego Putnama [Words and Salvation: Religious Discourse in the Perspective of Hilary Putnam's Philosophy], by Piotr Sikora.
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The function of confessional differentiation reveals itself in juxtaposing one’s own religion with other religions as well as in unity with members of one’s own belief. The way this function took shape among Old Believers is presented on the example of Sinodik from Wojnowo. Juxtaposing is realized as an opposition against other non-Orthodox believers and supporters of Patriarch Nikon’s reforms. The feeling of unity with members of one’s own community is formed by memorizing facts (names, places and dates) of Old Believers’ martyrology, developing a sense of duty towards ancestors and paying the debt through prayers, love and respect towards them.
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The article is devoted to sublimity as one of the rule shaping religious discourse (especially in Christian religious tradition). In the first part the author presents three ways of understanding of the term sublime/sublimity, which have developed during historical reflection on this category: sublimity as a grand style (one of the three rhetoric styles); as a grand (high) speech (Pseudo-Longinus); as an ambivalent experience of dread and fascination (Rudolf Otto), that arouses in the believer feelings of numinous. The second part examines the lexis (vocabulary) as a mean to achieve sublimity in religious texts. The author points out however, that the effect of sublimity is achieved not only by means of lexis, hence further research is needed.
Stylistyka
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2020
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vol. 29
41-53
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Talking about religious genres, the author means exclusively utterances connected with the existence of communicative community of the Catholic Church in Poland. She places her considerations within the framework of genology conceived as a cognitive space spanning many disciplines. For the use of the article, she combines the research instrumentary of genology called linguistic, thus philological, with frameworks typical of theological studies. She assumes that a philologist is not capable of presenting aspects which are connected with opening of the religious genres onto the transcendent sphere. The author makes references to her own concepts of the genre model, paying attention to the fact that with reference to the religious genres these models are of the established character. They are formed as a result of establishments of relevant subjects having an influence on the shape of religious discourse. Detailed comments are related to the service as a genre-generating form (ritualized, scenarioed and composed of many genre forms which form collections and possess a complex genre identity), and also the rosary as: rosary service and rosary prayer.
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The paper discusses the strategy of translation of Marcin Czechowic’s New Testament translation (1577). The authoress applies the theoretical categories of so called global translation strategy such as scopos, the potential reader, religious attitude as Czechowic’s New Testament was devoted to the unitarian communities. It was arranged as a multifunctional book for religious formation which contained institutionalized transmission of God’s Word. Denominational assumptions are manifested in the selection of translation strategy, style, and method of organizing the text in the book. Both the choice of the specific method of translation and the linguistic form of translations such as Iōannēs Baptistēs – Jan Ponurzyciel were marked by denominational optics of interpretation. The development of humanism broadened the general cognitive horizon. Czechowic’s translation was based on humanistic Greek editions of the time. It is not without reason that we find translators’ assurances as to the method of translation on title pages and in introductions, which were expressed by the concept of “diligence” (Lat. diligentia, Pol. pilność), as well as assurances with regard to the translator’s relationship with the source text – faithfulness to the Greek and Hebrew (veritas graeca, hebraica), or following of an “approved” text (Lat. textus probatus, Old Pol. doświadszony) or “contribution” by confronting different records. Marcin Czechowic, like most Protestant translators, declared faithfulness to the Greek source, however his translation of the Holy Scripture ware also in line with the postulate of veritas confessionis, which was interpreted in various ways depending on doctrinal foundations.
Stylistyka
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2007
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vol. 16
361-374
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Neologism ‘temporary stylistic deposits’ used in the title allows surmounting the phe- nomenon of stylistic polymorphism of a contemporary prayer book designed for youth in the temporalistic perspective.The author concentrates on two tendencies: stylistic traditionalism (conservatism) and stylistic modemism.The first tendency means reaching for the attributes of the traditional religious style, both in forms of utterances as well as language forms that have existed in religious utte- rances for centuries.The modemisational tendencies are linked to introduction in prayer texts contemporary life realia (computers, the internet), and colloquial or even slang wording.The article affirms the author’s thesis on coexistence in the contemporary religious di- scourse of utterances that have originated in various epochs.
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The paper focuses on a pragmatic study of panegyric as one of the essential genres of Orthodox sermon. It is aimed to study linguistic means representing panegyric strategies and tactics in Russian and Ukrainian. The results of the research of 100 panegyrics belonging to Metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny exemplify linguistic peculiarities, bilingualism being his style determining element. Lots of axiological elements are indicative for his speech; however pseudo dialogue and means of creating comic effect which are inherent for Orthodox sermon are absent. Prevailing topics are war, life in Donbas region, Svyatogorsk Monastery’s spiritual activity. The metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny’s panegyric avoids appellatives, imperatives, tactics of aggression and fascination; his global strategy is educational as he exemplifies and calls to holiness. The outcome of our investigation proves that the homilist Metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny belongs to adherents of antirhetorical approach to converting, whose speech is devoid of high style, abstractness and rhetoric, and who considers the spiritual image of the shepherd the main guarantee of successful preaching.
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The aim of the paper is to analyze religious discourse with the use of the instruments of semantics and pragmatics. Essentially, it sets out to identify the linguistic elements which enable the illocutionary force in the Romanian orthodox sermons, especially in the discourse of some important figures which have influenced and still influence the Romanian orthodox theology and the religious life in Romania: Father Cleopa, Father Nicolae Steinhardt, and, nowadays, Father Teofil Pârâianu. It is usually assumed that a sermon implies, on the one hand, a kerugmatik action, that of annunciation, and, on the other hand, a translating action of the biblical induce the human will to practice the words in order to Christian precepts. Mutatis mutandis, the perlocutionary effect depends on the illocutionary act and of the illocutionary force. In theory, the illocutionary force of an utterance is strictly motivated by the pragmatic (Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu 2003). But there are linguistic elements which function as efficient markers of the illocutionary force (Austin 1962: 73-76), for example performative verbs, verbal moods and some adverbs. The criteria proposed by Searle in order to differentiate the illocutionary acts (illocutionary point of utterance, direction of fit, psychological state, intensity, etc.) resulted in the identification of several types inside this class. Searle's taxonomy serves the research purposes: the identification of illocutionary acts found in this kind of religious discourse and, finally, outlining a pattern of manifestation of the illocutionary force inside the sermon.
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Kasiak Mateusz, Gender in educational and public discourse of the Church. Analysis of the Pastoral Letter on the Sunday of the Holy Family. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 289–312, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.19. Gender as a category of cultural gender and gender identity appears not only in scientific discourse as a topic of research, but also in public discourse, as a subject of various debates and disputes. This concept was also included into the discourse of the Catholic Church. Its creators – church leaders – embarked upon a public reinterpretation of the concept of gender, thus inserting their point of view into the broader political and ideological dispute. The aim of this paper is to review the postulates of the church concerning gender in the Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family, which seems to be a leading programme paper concerning this issue. In this paper, gender as a research and scientific category is isolated from the scientific discourse and appropriatedby the educational discourse of the church, where it functions as a scare tactic. Structural modifications in the text and style of the letter, stylistic and rhetorical tricks, as well as pragmatic mechanisms, make the text of the pastoral letter a persuasive political argument.
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The article presents a comparison of older and more contemporary texts in respect of the functions and frequency of exclamations. The analysis is based on about 100 Polish texts used in Catholic ceremonies of the Stations of the Cross, published before the Second Vatican Council and 100 contemporary texts of the same devotional practice. It appears that the number of exclamations in contemporary texts has decreased radically. In the older material exclamations are numerous and have a variety of structures. In contemporary texts we find far fewer, usually in special contexts, especially in highly stylised and ironic ones. One can see the influence of other discourses and genres and the communicative situation as well. The paper also deals with indicators of exclamations in spoken and written texts.
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Artykuł przedstawia porównanie dawnych i współczesnych tekstów pod względem funkcji i częstości występowania eksklamacji. Analiza opiera się 100 tekstach nabożeństwa drogi krzyżowej wydanych przed soborem watykańskim II i 100 współczesnych tekstach. Okazuje się, że liczba wykrzyknień znacząco spada w ciągu ostatniego stulecia. W dawnym nabożeństwie eksklamacje są liczne i urozmaicone pod względem struktury. Obecnie pojawiają się pojedynczo i w specjalnych kontekstach, zwłaszcza w stylizacji i w użyciach ironicznych. Widoczny jest wpływ innych dyskursów i gatunków oraz sytuacji komunikacyjnej. Artykuł porusza także problem wyznaczników eksklamacji w tekstach pisanych i mówionych.  
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During four decades of his service in the Church, Valentin Felixovich Voino-Yasenetsky (Archbishop Luke of Simferopol and Crimea) delivered numerous sermons, most of which were recorded. Later, they began to appear in the form of publications and became the object of research by representatives of various scientific disciplines. In his sermons, apart from other issues, the preacher paid special attention to the family and education of the younger generation. This article is an attempt to analyze the religious discourse of the Archbishop, using the example of the sermon “On the family and education of children”, delivered by him on 13 October 1947. The author of the sermon adheres to the traditional point of view on marriage and raising children. And this can be confirmed not only by the texts of his sermons, but also by the lifepath the preacher took himself. In this text, Archbishop Luke, in the classical tradition of quotations from the Bible, expresses his attitude towards the issues raised and offers solutions to them. If we take into account the processes going on in the modern world (new views on the institution of marriage, devaluation of marriage and the family, the reluctance of parents to take care of their own children, shifting of responsibility for raising children to other people or state institutions and organizations), it should be noted that, despite the fact that the sermon was delivered more than 70 years ago, it has not lost its relevance and can serve as a reference book for spouses and parents, as revealed by the analysis of the preacher’s discourse. Taking into account the peculiarities of the analyzed genre, the author of this article attempts to look at the text of the sermon from the theolinguistic perspective and, consequently, applies the theolinguistic approach in the process of its analysis and description.
Stylistyka
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2018
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vol. 27
47-64
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The article presents a characteristics of several contemporary communication phenomena transforming religious discourse in its Catholic version. The author understands discourse as the entirety of communication practices specific to a particular community of believers, which in the course of various interactions fixes and agrees relevant to this community content, preserves appropriate scenarios of communication behavior and rules for their completion by utterances and/or non-verbal means. The author emphasizes the peculiarity of the religious discourse that is open to transcendence. She limits the scope of the presented communication phenomena to the catechetical discourse, which now focuses on participation of the catechized people in the process of catechesis. The methods of catechesis should therefore take into account the spiritual needs of the believers. Catechesis formulated in this mode promotes communication experiments, especially the processes of movement, i.e. translocation of speech genres from the secular to sacred realm. According to the author these translocations are accomplished in new genre forms that maintain the memory of their basic genre code, but at the same time are subject to processes of transformation conducive to the creation of new genre patterns. Some of them do not have genre identifiers in the form of special names and are only a beginning of new conventions. Such status is attributed by the author to evangelization visiting card analyzed in the article. Some of them gain names and create a series that preserves the innovative principles of the genre. As an example, the author discusses messages called the heaventels. They are an adaptation of the SMS convention for simulated (stylized) communication of God as the sender to the man. Translocations are favourable to launching of the adaptation processes and formation of genre duplicates that make the input (secular) genre form more capacious and communicatively catchy.
Nurt SVD
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2018
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issue 2
67-84
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Niniejszy artykuł jest poświęcony rozumieniu pojęcia „ewangelizacja” przez ludzi Kościoła, którzy na różne sposoby angażują się w głoszenie Dobrej Nowiny. Autorka analizuje występowanie tego terminu w różnych kontekstach i aspektach, m.in. omawiając jego językową, teologiczną i potoczną semantykę, rozpatrując ewangelizację jako strategię komunikacji, prezentując werbalne i niewerbalne metody głoszenia Ewangelii. W tekście przedstawiono także wybrane źródła spośród publikacji zamieszczanych na łamach Agendy Liturgicznej Maryi Niepokalanej w latach 2013-2015, będące oficjalnymi wypowiedziami teoretyków i praktyków ewangelizacji. Wnikliwie omówiono ewangelizację jako akt komunikacji, używane przez ewangelizatorów środki językowe i pozajęzykowe oddziaływania na odbiorcę, a także rozpatrzono wyzwania stojące przed ewangelizatorami we współczesnym świecie, takie jak obecność innych kultur i systemów wartości (często rozbieżnych z aksjologią chrześcijańską), konieczność przemawiania w sposób otwarty i zrozumiały, znaczenie autentycznego dialogu między ludźmi. Tekst łączy konkretne wskazania i zalecenia dla chrześcijan, z których każdy jest powołany do ewangelizacji i dawania świadectwa swojej wiary.
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The author of this article examines the ways in which some representatives of the Church, engaged in evangelisation, understand and employ this term. She enquires into its linguistic, theological and popular meanings and analyses the contexts and aspects of its usage as verbal and non-verbal communication strategy in spreading the Good News. She enriches her inquiry by probing into writings of theoreticians and practitioners of evangelisation, published in Agenda Liturgiczna Maryi Niepokalanej in the years 2013-2015 [Liturgical Guide of the Immaculate Mary]. The author investigates in great depth the communicative aspect of evangelisation, verbal and non-verbal means of influencing listeners, modern challenges, multitude of cultures and value systems (often at odds with Christian axiology), need for open and comprehensible language and authentic dialogue. She includes concrete suggestions and recommendations for Christians, as they all are called to evangelise and give witness to their faith.
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Artykuł jest poświęcony językowym środkom perswazji używanym podczas ewangelizacji w Kościele Zielonoświątkowym, największej polskiej wspólnocie eklezjalnej należącej do charyzmatycznego nurtu ewangelikalizmu. Analiza autorów skupia się na praktyce tzw. składania świadectwa, czyli publicznie wygłaszanej opowieści, której głównym tematem jest jego droga do Boga, okoliczności i skutki nawrócenia. Pełnią one w zielonoświątkowym nabożeństwie funkcję ewangelizacyjną stąd liczne zabiegi perswazyjne, które autorzy artykułu rekonstruują na podstawie analizy 78 współczesnych świadectw wiernych Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego.
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The article is devoted to the language persuasion measures which are used during evangelization in the Pentecostal Church, the largest Polish ecclesial community belonging to the charismatic wing of evangelical movement. The analysis of the authors’ article focuses on the practice of so called giving testimony, which is publicly given story that main theme is the way to God, the circumstances and consequences of conversion. They perform evangelizing function in pentecostal devotion, hence the numerous persuasive treatments, which the authors of the article reconstruct on the basis of 78 contemporary testimonies of the faithful of the Pentecostal Church.
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The purpose of the article is to introduce the concept of „conversion to Orthodoxy ” into the analysis of historical sociolinguistics for the characterization of a language situation caused by the redistribution of Ukrainian territories after the third division of Poland and during the Second World War. The objectives of the article are to reveal the meaning of the concept of „conversion to Orthodoxy” and to identify the linguistic markers of this phenomenon in contemporary religious and secular discourse. The author studies the content of the category „conversion to Orthodoxy” based on new sources that have not yet been put into circulation by sociolinguistics. Methods of analysis: case study, discourse analysis, sociolinguistic correlations, comparative and biographical method, which allowed applying socio-cultural linguistic approach to studying the database. The results related to the conversion to Orthodoxy obtained in the article prove the destruction of the national and religious identity of the Ukrainian territories in the 18th-20th centuries and illustrate intercultural communication under the scheme of integration with assimilation based on a geopolitical factor, violence and terror.
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The article is a presentation of the previously undiscussed prayer book Dworskie nabożeństwo, published in 1781 in Kalisz, a city which has a long tradition of publishing, mainly connected with the activities of Jesuits. Currently there are 6 known copies of this anonymously published prayer book (commissioned for print “by a priest of the former order of The Society of Jesus”), including the one unknown to XX century bibliographers, found in the Library of Elbląg, which has been recovered and made available recently. Dworskie nabożeństwo is a book constructed in a very original way. It contains 368 identical hexamerous prayers. Parts of the prayers are placed in tables, in a way that makes the reader consciously reconstruct the whole prayer from the elements divided between different rows in the table.
Onomastica
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2017
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vol. 61
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issue 2
143-163
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The Jubilee years of the Catholic Church, which were an element of its strategy in the battle against infidels, form an extralingual context of onomastic issues discussed in the article. The study covers first names occurring in Poznań during the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, thus in the period witnessing the disintegration of Western Christianity. The author attempts to define the influence of forms of religious life characteristic of the jubilee years (the veneration of Saints, pilgrimages) on shaping the Catholic paradigm of first names. She considers Christian first names documented in Poznań-based sources as an element of religious (didactic, informational and paraliterary) discourse of that time, dominated by the Catholic Church.
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The concept of family in Hausa

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The paper attempts to define the notion of family in Hausa, an African language which is very distant, both geographically and culturally, from the European context. With reference to the universal features of the notion family, the culture-specific concept of family is discussed, focusing on traditional model of the Hausa family and relations between family members. The main features of the concept are identified through the analysis of the lexicon, phraseology, and structural features. The discussion includes some specific profiles of the concept of family in Hausa, manifested in religious discourse and in the language of popular culture.
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Autorka podejmuje próbę zdefiniowania konceptu rodziny w języku odległym geograficznie i w kulturze istotnie odmiennej od kultury europejskiej. Powołując się na uniwersalne cechy definicyjne pojęcia rodzina, przedstawia obraz rodziny na podstawie danych afrykańskiego języka hausa. Źródła językowe dostarczają wiedzy na temat stereotypu rodziny tradycyjnej, wewnętrznej struktury rodziny i relacji między członkami, przedmiotem uwagi są też społecznie regulowane zasady zawierania małżeństwa i relacji mąż-żona. Podstawą językowego obrazu rodziny jest treść wyspecjalizowanego leksykonu odnoszącego się do konceptu rodziny, a ponadto cechy strukturalne i frazeologia języka hausa. Podstawowy stereotyp rodziny hausańskiej, zrekonstruowany na podstawie danych językowych, jest konfrontowany z odmiennym profilowaniem konceptu rodziny w dyskursie religijnym i dyskursie świeckim kultury masowej.
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The article is about the Polish version of Prayer for the Faithful Departed (Latin: Oratio pro fidelibus defunctis) in the contemporary prayer books. In the introduction, the origins of the text were described and the multitude of contexts it appears in was pointed out. Subsequently, its presence/absence in the prayer collections, surfacing titles and placement in differently profiled prayer book chapters were discussed.
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