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The issue touched in the article is vision and prophecy on the basis of Liber ostensor by John of Roquetaillade, a Franciscan visionary and long-term prisoner of Franciscan and Roman Inquisition. This extensive work was written in 1356 in Avignon and was dedicated to the cardinal Elie Talleyrand de Périgord, who, as a nuncio, had to carry into effect the conclusion of peace between England and France. Liber ostensor is a Franciscan and eschatological work. It conveys an apocalyptic augury of events which will take place in the latter part of the XIV century. One of the main plots of the work is a medieval dispute about evangelical poverty. It resulted in the radicalization of views of John of Roquetaillade. The Franciscan experienced many visions of angels, Mother of God, St Francis of Assisi, and also the Antichrist, which strengthened his conviction about the rightness of his views. John of Roquetaillade prophesies a punishment that will affect the Avignonese papacy and Europe. After sins of people of church have been punished, there will appear a pope-reformer, who will lead mankind into a new era, directly preluding the end of the world. The author of Liber ostensor is an interesting example of the resurgence of millenarism in the Middle Ages.
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In one of his main works, Concordia Novi ac Veteris Testamenti, Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) interprets the story of the biblical Lot, shown in chapter 19 of Genesis. Using in practice the method of compliance (concordia) of the Old and New Testaments and an extensive theory of biblical meanings, he sees in the degenerated inhabitants of Sodom the announcement of medieval dialects. The negative attitude of the Abbot of Fiore (Calabrian Abbot) to speculative theology results from his apocalyptic vision of history, in which the key role is played by spiritual men (viri spiritales), who herald the Holy Spirit era. According to Joachim of Fiore, self-confi dent and self-based dialectics are destructive, diverting attention from the coming apocalypse. Stuck in a letter, they do not achieve the spiritual understanding (intelligentia spiritualis) of the Bible and prevent others from doing so. The interpretation of Lot’s story by Joachim of Fiore reveals the twelfth-century intellectual climate as monastic theology gradually gives way to scholasticism practiced in cities.
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On September 27, 1297 Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) promulgated a bull beginning with the words Detestande feritatis, thereby outlawing any further practice of the medieval custom of dismembering human corpses which were subsequently boiled in water to separate the bones from the soft tissue. This was a practice that facilitated burial in places remote from the scene of death of the deceased. The first part of the article presents the circumstances in which the papal document originated. By outlawing such practices the Pope invalidated the decisions contained in the last wills of some, especially the French, cardinals of his times. The custom of dismembering human corpses was predominantly practiced north of the Alps, but it was also present on the territory of today’s Spain. In medieval times it was known as “the German custom” (mos teutonicus) and was underpinned by a specific medieval anthropology. The second part of the article scrutinizes the probable reasons of the Pope’s violent reaction. An attempt is made to reconstruct the forma mentis of Boniface VIII. Relevant indications and clues can be found in the records of the proceedings against the Pope by Philip the Fair, king of France, in the iconography of monuments erected at the Pope’s initiative, and also in the development of the natural sciences in the late Middle Ages.
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The author analyzes Saint Augustine sentence “Love and then what you will, do”. The sentence is being studied in the context of Augustine teaching about the role of love in human moral acting. The article presents the arguments supporting a thesis that love is a necessary attribute of a good moral acting. The authentic value of a human act derives from “root of love”. The final part of the article presents two contemporary points of view (E. Gilson, P. Agaësse) which are confronted with the quoted sentence.
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This review article is an attempt to introduce the Polish reader to the most important aspects of Marcello Veneziani’s book Nostalgia degli dei. Una visione del mondo in dieci idee (The longing for gods: Vision of the world in ten ideas), published in 2019. The Italian author, philosopher, journalist, writer and TV commentator, addresses the problem of diseases plaguing contemporary Western civilization that threaten its further existence. The book is a proposal to return to metaphysical thinking, but in a way akin to a contemporary pop version, and Veneziani’s gods, close to Platonism, are metaphors and ‘penultimate deities’: Civilisation, Homeland, Family, Community, Tradition, Myth, Fate, Soul, God and Return. The article provides a subjective review of the content of Veneziani’s book and juxtaposes it with Joseph Ratzinger’s famous proposal addressed to contemporary non-believers, that is, ‘to live as if God existed’ (veluti si Deus daretur).
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The study of an Italian historian of Christianity Roberto Rusconi: Santo Padre. La santità del papa de san Pietro a Giovanni Paolo II (Holy Father. Holiness of a pope from St Peter to John Paul II) is the first attempt of showing in what way throughout history there was presented holiness of a pope in Church. In this detailed monograph a reader will find not only the presentation of holy popes, from Apostolic times till the XX century, but above all the presentation of the problem of holiness relating to the highest post in Church. Studies of Rusconi cast in this way a new light on the history of Church, religiosity and the process of formal acknowledgement of holiness within the space of centuries. In his study Roberto Rusconi claims that the twenty third statement of Dictatus papae of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085): Romanus pontifex, si canonice fuerit electus, meritis beati Petri indubitanter efficitur sanctus (the Roman pontiff, if he have been canonically ordained, is undoubtedly made a saint by the merits of St Peter) has been fulfilled these days, being this way a kind of a prophecy. The author comes to such a conclusion analysing the evolution of perceiving the figure of a pope and his holiness, especially in the last two centuries, and also the fact that there have already been beatified or there have been opened processes of beatification of all the popes of the last half-century.
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The article addresses the interpretation of the dialogue between the mother of Jesus and the Son (John 2:3-4) in "Tractatus super quatuor evangelia" by Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202). The analysis starts from an overview of the source, its main lines of argumentation, the popularity of this work in the Middle Ages and the controversies it aroused. The paper employs an analytical and comparative method. The analysis of the patristic sources, the literature on the subject and the comparison of the content of the main source, namely the "Tractatus super quatuor evangelia", with the content of selected works of Joachim of Fiore, lead to the conclusion that as far as Joachim’s exegesis of Jn 2:3-4 is concerned, we can speak of the genuine innovativeness of this medieval author, rooted in his original vision of history. The article refers to the exegesis of this fragment of the Gospel according to St John, as seen in Gaudentius of Brescia and St Augustine. In Joachim’s interpretation, the mother of Jesus appears above all as the herald of the forthcoming spiritual Church (ecclesia spiritalis), and her request to the Son sets in motion the historical process of the spiritualisation of the Church and the world, which, according to Joachim, is to precede the Second Coming. Joachim’s view of Jn 2:3-4 is an interesting example of the creative reception of the exegesis of the Church Fathers and the interpretative approaches they developed which were adopted in the Middle Ages.
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W artykule podjęto problem interpretacji dialogu Matki Jezusa z Synem (J 2, 3-4) w "Tractatus super quatuor evangelia" Joachima z Fiore (1135-1202). Przeprowadzona analiza wychodzi od charakterystyki źródła, głównych linii prowadzonej w nim argumentacji, popularności tego dzieła w średniowieczu, a także kontrowersji, jakie wzbudzało. W artykule zastosowano metodę analityczną i porównawczą. Analiza źródeł patrystycznych, literatury przedmiotu oraz porównanie treści zawartych w głównym źródle, czyli "Tractatus super quatuor evangelia", z treścią wybranych dzieł Joachima z Fiore, pozwala na stwierdzenie, że w przypadku Joachimowej egzegezy J 2, 3-4 możemy mówić o autentycznym nowatorstwie widocznym u tego średniowiecznego autora i osadzonym w jego oryginalnej wizji dziejów. W artykule sięgnięto do egzegezy tego fragmentu ewangelii według św. Jana widocznej u Gaudencjusza z Brescii i św. Augustyna. Matka Jezusa w Joachimowej interpretacji jawi się przede wszystkim jako zapowiedź mającego dopiero nadejść duchowego Kościoła (ecclesia spiritalis), a jej prośba do Syna oznacza uruchomienie dziejowego procesu spirytualizacji Kościoła i świata, która ma – zdaniem Joachima – poprzedzić paruzję. Joachimowe spojrzenie na J 2, 3-4 jest interesującym przykładem twórczej recepcji egzegezy Ojców Kościoła oraz wypracowanych przez nich i przyjętych w średniowieczu rozwiązań interpretacyjnych.
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The article consists of a discussion about selected issues which were taken up in Cardinal Ratzinger’s lecture, Faith, Philosophy and Theology. The lecture was delivered by the Cardinal in 1984 on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. In his lecture, Joseph Ratzinger refers to the first images of Christ that can be seen on the sarcophagi which date from the early centuries of the Church (the Good Shepherd, the Philosopher, etc.). According to Ratzinger, these depictions constitute an attempt to provide a Christian reply to questions about the sense of death. Today, this issue can bring theology and philosophy together and assist in the search for a new rationale.
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W artykule podjęto problem ideowej wymowy grobowca papieża Bonifacego VIII w bazylice watykańskiej oraz dokonanego przez papieża nawiązania do postaci jego poprzednika z początku VII wieku, św. Bonifacego IV (608–615). To ukończone w 1296 roku dzieło autorstwa Arnolfa di Cambio i prawdopodobnie Jacopa Torritiego należy umiejscowić w kontekście skomplikowanych początków pontyfikatu Bonifacego VIII, wybranego na Stolicę Piotrową za życia poprzednika. Przeprowadzona analiza obejmuje ukazanie wyglądu tego nieistniejącego dzisiaj mauzoleum na podstawie zachowanych świadectw, prezentację ideowego przesłania grobowca oraz przybliżenie oryginalnego wprzęgnięcia przez Bonifacego VIII hagiografii w program własnego pontyfikatu. W artykule zastosowano metodę analityczną w odniesieniu do historii i historii sztuki. W świetle przeprowadzonych badań mauzoleum Bonifacego VIII w bazylice watykańskiej jawi się jako dzieło niezwykle spójne ideowo i podporządkowane jego wizji pontyfikatu, a zarazem służące apologii najwyższej władzy w Kościele w kontekście pojawiających się oskarżeń o bezprawną jej uzurpację. Zaprezentowane analizy mogą stanowić punkt wyjścia do dalszych badań nad papieską obrzędowością w średniowieczu.
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Written probably between 1021-1024 the treatise on soul, known as Liber de Anima or Liber Sextus de Naturalibus, is one of the most popular works of Avicenna in the Middle Ages. It constitutes an original synthesis of the science of the soul, maintained in the peripatetic and neo- Platonic spirit. In book V Avicenna opposes pre-existence and the transmigration of souls. He provides numerous arguments in favour of the immortality of the soul. In this way he breaks away from the typically Greek understanding of the problem of soul. The basis of argumentation for the immortality of the soul is its unity with the body treated as accident. The treatise on soul was received with kindness and interest by scholastics, particularly by Albert the Great. It includes ideas characteristic for Avicenna ideas, for example the story about the Flying Man resembling Cartesian cogito.
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Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) – a Middle Age exegete and mystic – is the author of an impressive work on the vision of history, whose most renown ele­ment is the tertius status, i.e. the age of the Holy Spirit which precedes the end of the world and the Final Judgment. As an author, Joachim was also interested in the history of religious life in the Middle Ages and in various exegetical tools which he developed to analyze this subject. In his works, especially the minor ones, he also discusses practical problems related to religious life in the 12th century. The small tractate, Questio de Maria Magdalena et Maria sorore Lazari et Marthae, has been preserved in a single 13th century manuscript and is kept in the Biblioteca Antoniana in Padua. In his exegesis on various Gospel passages which deal with the anointing of Jesus’ feet and head in Galilee and Bethany, Joachim of Fiore intends to show that the actions of women who performed this gesture pos­sess a hidden moral significance: the certainty concerning the internal unity that occurs between contemplation and the virtue of humility. An example of this unity is Mary of Bethany who anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped them with her hair (cf. Jn 12:3) as a person who is humble and – at the same time – given to contem­plation. Still – according to Joachim – as a righteous person, she had the right to reach for the head of the Savior.
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