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Ekumeniczna koncepcja Ukraińskiego Kościoła Greckokatolickiego

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Trochanowski A.

Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie

2016

issue 23

201-211

Katolickie Kościoły wschodnie (KKW) stanowią integralną część Kościoła powszechnego. Dekret o Kościołach Wschodnich Katolickich „Orientalium Ecclesiarum” podkreśla, że posiadają one taką samą godność w relacji do siebie oraz do Kościoła łacińskiego. Działania tychże Kościołów na płaszczyźnie ekumenicznej określają dokumenty Soboru Watykańskiego II: Dekret o Kościołach Wschodnich Katolickich „Orientalium Ecclesiarum” oraz Dekret o Ekumenizmie „Unitatis Redintegratio”. KKW mają także prawo i obowiązek pomagać Stolicy Apostolskiej zrozumieć chrześcijański Wschód w poszukiwaniu utraconej jedności. Na tych Kościołach ze względu na wspólne dziedzictwo duchowe chrześcijańskiego Wschodu spoczywa odpowiedzialność współpracy z Kościołami prawosławnymi. W trosce o jak najlepsze relacje z bratnimi chrześcijanami pomocą ma służyć dokument opracowany przez Synod Biskupów Ukraińskiego Kościoła Greckokatolickiego pt. Koncepcja ekumeniczna Ukraińskiego Kościoła Greckokatolickiego (UKGK). Dokument został ogłoszony 23 grudnia 2015 r., a swojej mocy prawnej nabrał 23 lutego 2016 r. Koncepcja, zatwierdzona na pięć lat, szczegółowo przedstawia zagadnienia dotyczące genezy UKGK. Ponadto podchodzi bardzo krytycznie do procesów historycznych, które z jednej strony utrudniały rozwój UKGK, a z drugiej stanowiły zagrożenie utraty własnej tożsamości. Koncepcja ekumeniczna UKGK ukazuje otwartość na dialog z Kościołami prawosławnymi, w sposób szczególny na Ukrainie, oraz podkreśla potrzebę zjednoczenia chrześcijan, którzy są spadkobiercami chrztu św. Włodzimierza. W zakończeniu ekumenicznej koncepcji Ukraińskiego Kościoła Greckokatolickiego autorzy stwierdzają, że odrodzenie wiary na Ukrainie nastąpi poprzez odnowienie Kościoła kijowskiego w jednym patriarchacie w jedności z biskupem Rzymu i z innymi Kościoła partykularnymi.

Eastern Catholic Churches (ECC) are an integral part of the universal Church. The Decree about Catholic Eastern Churches ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ emphasizes that they have the same dignity in relation to each other and to the Latin Church. The actions of these churches on the field of ecumenism are determined by the documents of the Second Vatican Council: The Decree about Ecumenism ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ and The Decree about Catholic Eastern Churches ‘Unitatis Redintegratio’. ECC Churches also have the right and duty to help the Holy See to understand the Christian East in search of the lost unity. These churches are responsible for cooperating with Orthodox Churches because of their common spiritual heritage. The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church prepared a document in the interest of the best possible relations with fraternal Christians. The mentioned document is entitled ‘The ecumenical concept of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’ (UGCC). It was published on 23 December 2015 and its legal force took on 23 February 2016. The concept has been approved for five years. The idea broadly describes the issues that are the source of the UGCC. The document is very critical to the historical processes, which on the one hand, hindered the development of UGCC and on the other hand posed a threat of losing its own identity. The ecumenical concept of the UGCC shows openness to dialogue with Orthodox Churches in particular in the Ukraine and emphasizes the need to unite the Christians, who are the heirs of St. Vladimir baptism. In the end of the ecumenical concept of the UGCC the authors state that the revival of faith in the Ukraine will take place through the renewal of the Church of Kiev in one Patriarchate in union with the Roman Pontiff and with the other particular Churches.

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Leśniewski K.

Roczniki Teologii Ekumenicznej

2010

vol. 2

35-56

The first part of the article describes signs of a crisis of Christianity in the contemporary world. One can distinguished both the deepening of a crisis of faith and various threats, which have been very dangerous for Christians. Among many causes of the modern crisis of faith it should be pointed out the tolerance for pathologies, the triumph of atheistic philosophies, the anthropological reductionism, and the relativisation of personal evil. Apart from that in some countries in the world Christians have been persecuted and even put to death. It is necessary to take into account this general context if one would like to take into consideration the problem of the necessity of common witness on Christ and the cause of the lack of Christian Unity. Today, as the Author ascertain in the second part of his text, it is impossible to deal with ecumenical matters without relating them to various factors influencing on the situation of Christianity in the world. As it is evident, so far the full Eucharistic Fellowship has not been reached by the ecumenical dialogue. Practically, a greater part of agreements of theological dialogues have not got reception on the parish level. There is no common Christian language, which could be commonly used, what it points out to a deep disagreement about the Truth. From the Orthodox point of view unity is to be understood not as a mere administrative arrangement and a human achievement, but as a manifestation of grace and as the fullness of the new life which renews the earth-born and the whole of their world. In order to understand why the Christian unity is so difficult to acquire it is necessary to look at the Church of Christ as a personal community in resemblance of the Holy Trinity as the community of the Divine Persons. The Author in the third part of the article underlines that the Trinitarian relations between God the Father, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit consist the most perfect pattern for relations between human persons in the fellowship of the Church. From such a point of view the Church is not an occasional ‘happening’, where the Word of God is preached and listened to and the sacraments are performed, but as the reality of sonship in the Spirit, that is, as a constant movement of filial grace from the Father, giving his Son to us in the Spirit, and as a return of this by us, ‘giving grace’ to him by offering back to him his Son in his incarnate, sacrificial and risen state as the head of a body comprising all of us and all that exists. The fourth part of the article refers to a question of the unity of the Church and understanding of truth. The problem of understanding of truth in the Church may be expressed in the following question: How can we hold at the same time to the historical nature of truth and the presence of ultimate truth here and now? For an answer to this question it can be very helpful to look at the Greek Fathers, both their failures and their success, in arriving at an understanding of truth which might have meaning for a person of Greek mentality, without betraying or distorting the message of the Bible. Their spiritual and intellectual contribution has been essential for a reflection on the relation between truth and salvation. They underlined that human person as the whole (not only his reason, but all functions of his intellect in connection to soul and body) was committed into the process of learning truth. Therefore bodily ascetism in the Church is one of essential conditions of approach to truth, the supreme road to theological knowledge. It is not possible for human being to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories, relative analogies and conventional expressions, because they give only a relative and conventional knowledge. Knowing God is possible only in Christ, who as the personal Truth has been the source of all truths. In order to know Christ as Truth it requires opening for His presence not only on the level of reason, but approaching Him in ones intellect, soul and body. Particularly, the change of the intellect (Gr. μετάνοια) is very important on the way toward the uniting Truth. There are some important conclusions, indicated in the final part of the article, resulting from the Christian understanding of the uniting Truth for ecumenical endeavors. Particularly important is not to treat the doctrinal ecumenism solely as an intellectual convergence process in separation from all that, what constitute the life of the Church of Christ. One has to remember that notions taken from kataphatic theology should be supplemented by notions from apophatic theology, because the knowledge of God is knowing the Unknowable. Striving for the unity of Christians, similarly to striving for the unity of a human person in relation to God, requires the change of intellect, by the attention (Gr. προσοχή), watchfulness (Gr. νῆψις), prayer, the Liturgy and ascetism.

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1 Roczniki Teologii Ekumenicznej

1 Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie

1 Leśniewski K.

1 Trochanowski A.

1 2016

1 2010

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