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You are so kind – and I am kind and smart: Actor – Observer Differences in the Interpretation of On-going Behavior

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Abele A. E., Bruckmüller S., Wojciszke B.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

394-401

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: The dual perspective model of agency and communion predicts that observers tend to interpret a target’s behavior more in terms of communion than agency, whereas actors interpret their behavior more in terms of agency. The present research for the first time tests this model in real interactions. Previously unacquainted participants had a short conversation and afterwards rated their own behavior (actor perspective) and their interaction partner’s behavior (observer perspective) in terms of agency(self-confident, assertive) and communion(trustworthy, empathic). Supporting the dual perspective model, observers rated the actor’s behavior higher on communion than on agency, and higher on communion than actors themselves did. Findings for actors were more complex: Actors rated their own behavior as more agentic than observers did. However, they also rated their behavior high on communion. We discuss implications for the dual perspective model as well as for (mis)understandings in social interactions.

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Gender and agency versus communion at the threshold of adulthood

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Kalka D.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

444-452

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The aim of this study was to verify the importance of reinforcing a sex stereotype onparticipants’ identification with this role. The results were analysed as a function of both biological sex (63 women and 65 men) and psychological gender (58 sex-typed individuals and 70 androgynous individuals). In the study the Psychological Gender Inventory was used, as well as a scale measuring Agency and Communion, a scale measuring Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion, lists of sentences containing stereotypes of the male sex and the female sex, and sentences that were neutral with regard to sex. The results showed that feminine women ascribed more female characteristics to themselves regardless of whether the role that was associated with their biological sex was reinforced or not. Men showing characteristics of both sexes ascribed a similar level of unmitigated communion and agency to themselves irrespective of whether the sex stereotype was reinforced or not

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Whether you are smart or kind depends on how I feel: The influence of positive and negative mood on agency and communion perception

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Szymkow A.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

434-443

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Feelings-as-information theory states that feelings inform us about the nature of our current situation and we rely on them to make our judgments. Beyond that, feelings tune our cognitive processes to meet situational requirements. Positive feelings result in relying on pre-existing knowledge structures and default strategies, whereas negative feelings hamper relying on routines and results in adapting systematic processing. Based on this premise, it was hypothesized that positive mood, elicited either by the perceived target or by the independent source, would lead to relying on accessible agentic or communal content in perceiving strangers, as well as familiar others, whereas negative mood would weaken these tendencies. Specifically, the three studies showed initial evidence that (a) positive mood leads to focusing on agencyrelated qualities in perception of unknown men to a greater extent than negative mood, (b) positive mood leads to focusing on communion-related qualities in perception of unknown women more than negative mood, and(c) positive mood leads to relying on communal content in perception of familiar others comparing to negative mood.

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Volunteering involvementand agency, communion and ethics

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Grabowski A.

Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze

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2020

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vol. 586(1)

27-38

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The aim of this paper was to check whether there exists a relationship between volunteering involvement and the level of communion, agency and degree of support for ethical codes. The questions concerned whether persons involved in volunteering (compared to those not involved) are characterized, on the one hand, by a higher intensity of agency and communion, on the other, a higher level of declared support for ethical codes (ethics of autonomy, universal good, dignity and collectivism). In order to find the answer, a study was carried out in which participated 37 people involved in hospice volunteering (including 19 women) and 34 non-volunteers (including 18 women).The results of the study show the existence of an assumed relationship in the case of agency and communion. As for ethical codes, the results did not provide evidence of the relationship between the level of their support and volunteering. The results of the presented study lead to the conclusion that selfless action for the benefit of the other people is associated with a high level of agency and communion, and not only with a high ethical level. Hence the postulate for pedagogical practice to shape and develop a sense of agency and communion in children and youth.

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Does Communal Context Bring the Worst in Narcissists?

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Czarna A. Z., Czerniak A., Szmajke A.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

464-468

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The present experiment (N = 95) investigated the relations of narcissism with social value orientation under façade conditions of testing communal or agentic traits (or none - in a control condition). The results indicated that narcissism predicted less willingness to share resources with others and more competitive orientation in a façade communal condition compared to the remaining two conditions: control and agentic. The results confirm narcissistic disregard for communal domain and are consistent with the extended agency model of narcissism and the “success as a drawback” effect.

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The mystery of communion in narcissism: The success-as-a-flaw effect

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Drat-Ruszczak K., Bazińska R., Niemyjska A.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

453-463

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In the present paper we consider the specific relationship between communal and agentic functioning of narcissistic individuals. The study was aimed to test whether narcissist’s aggression is due to not only negative information about their agency but also positive information about their communion. Whereas the first effect is well- documented in empirical studies, the second effect has been revealed in our prior research. The results of the present study confirmed both effects: negative information about one’s agency increased aggressive tendencies (operationalized as a display of demeaning behavior) and decreased state self-esteem, while positive information about one’s communion resulted only in displaced aggression. The aggressive response to positive communal information is discussed as the success-as-aflaw effect, which we mean as inverse of the failure-as-an asset effect. According to the success-as-a-flaw effect, positive outcomes in the communal domain, considered by narcissists to be an evidence of low-status, are threatening for the grandiose self, based on the domain of agency. The social cognitive and clinical approach is employed to interpret these results.

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Competence over Communion: Implicit Evaluations of Personality Traits During Goal Pursuit

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Roczniewska M., Kolańczyk A.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

418-425

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Research shows that goal-relevant objects are rated positively, which results from their functionality towards the aim. In previous studies these objects were always external to the agent. However, relevant knowledge of self is also potentially accessible during goal pursuit, as self-esteem is an indicator of aim’s feasibility. In two experimental studies we tested whether goal activation affects temporal changes in automatic evaluations of personality traits related to the dimensions of agency and communion. We administered affect misattribution procedure where participants rated neutral Chinese hexagrams proceeded by words describing traits (75 ms masked presentation). The list of words comprised agentic (e.g. agile) and communal (e.g. trustworthy) traits. The rating took place twice - before and after introducing a manual task. In the first study, goal activation led to slightly more positive implicit evaluations of agentic and more negative evaluation of communal traits, which is consistent with empirical data on self-perception depending on agentic knowledge rather than communal one. In the second study we showed that goal activation led to changes only for promotion-, but not prevention-oriented individuals, which is explained by motivation strength. The results indicate that valuation of traits changes temporarily along with goal pursuit.

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Pneumatology and Politics: The role of the Holy Spirit in the articulation of an Orthodox political theology

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Asproulis N.

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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2015

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vol. 7

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issue 2

184-197

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In this paper an attempt is made to discuss the importance of the Holy Spirit in the development of an Orthodox political theology, by bringing into critical dialogue the recent contributions of two of the most known Orthodox theologians of the young generation, namely A. Papanikolaou and P. Kalaitzidis. It is commonly recognized that the Holy Spirit is closely related both to the very “constitution of the whole Church” in virtue of the Eucharistic event, as well as to the everyday charismatic lives of individual Christians due to the various forms or stages of ascetism. In this respect a careful comparative examination of these two important works, would highlight some invaluable elements (Eucharistic perspective, eschatological orientation, historical commitment, ethical action, open and critical dialogue with modernity etc.) toward a formulation of a comprehensive and urgently necessary political theology. This sort of political theology should have inevitable implications for the Christian perception of the communal and the individual ecclesial life. This “theo-political” program proposed by the two thinkers and founded on a robust Pneumatology, could be perfectly included, following the apostolic kerygma and the patristic ethos, into a new way of doing (Orthodox) Christian theology, that takes as its starting point the grammar of the self-Revelation of God in the ongoing history of salvation (“Church and World Dogmatics”).

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Duch Święty w kontekście współczesnej teologii komunijnej

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Jagodziński M.

Teologia w Polsce

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue 2

151-164

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Pneumatology survived its specific revival made possible by the awakening of communion thought again. The communion analysis of intra-Trinitarian relations leads to building Trinitarian models, which in a new way try to show the place and role of the Holy Spirit in the bosom of the Holy Trinity. They also include communicative and communion models of the Holy Trinity, showing the Holy Spirit as unifying and mediating “environment of meaning” and “space” of infinite love in God, which is also important for all theology.

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The Father in the Communion of the Holy Trinity

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Jagodziński M.

Teologia w Polsce

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue 1

5-17

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Holy Trinity is the Communion of Persons. Relational understanding of Persons in the Holy Trinity is closely related to the concept of perichoresis. Most importantly, God is the Father. He is the Trinitarian source of Deity and exists in the Communion with the Son and the Holy Spirit. The mystery of love in God H.U. von Balthasar expresses with the help of the concept of kenosis, which did not take place only at the moment of incarnation or death of Jesus on the cross, but in God himself. In explaining of this image Balthasar does not use the full harmony of the meaning of communion, but dramatic metaphors of “killing”, “expropriation”, “separation” and even “absolute distinction” between the Father and Son. However, there is a question about the legitimacy of abandoning the metaphor of mutual community commonly used in Trinitology.

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Budowanie komunii z Bogiem w rodzinie przez słowo Boże

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Wiszowaty E.

Studia Pastoralne

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2015

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vol. 11

83-93

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Marriage and the family are today the subject of many studies in the area of humanities, to mention the social anthropology, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, including the sciences of theology. On the one hand studies draw attention to the significant changes that have taken place in the space of the functions of these institutions, on the other hand to the secularization of marriage and family and the ensuing crisis, the most glaring example of which is the growing number of divorces. At the same time longing for a successful marriage and family relationships as the source of a happy life seems to be un undeniable fact. The author of the article in the article, in the submitted analyses, seeks to show that true community can exist only on the foundation of the word of God. At the same time he shows the practical dimension of life with the word of God in the family. He draws attention to reading and meditating on the word of God and the role of the word in building relationships, resolving of family crises and upbringing children.

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Wojtyła’s Category of Participation and the Question of Common Good

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Jasiński K.

Philosophy and Canon Law

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2021

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vol. 7

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issue 1

1-16

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The author presents Wojtyła’s views on participation and its connections to the common good. The analysis consists of two parts. The first part outlines the concept of participation (coexistence and action together with other people in relation to the common good) and its various forms (solidarity and opposition, conformism and evasion). The second part presents views of the nature of common good found not only in liberal thought (common good as the expression of deliberation and the rights of the individual), and personalist thought (common good as the development of the person and its natural potentialities), but primarily in the work of Wojtyła himself (common good as personal self-fulfilment through coexistence and cooperation with others in relation to the conscience-discerned truth, elected in a free act). His reference point was also personalism, which stresses the inalienable dignity of the person in both the private and the social spheres of life.

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Impact of Conflict Resolution Strategies on Perception of Agency, Communion and Power Roles Evaluation

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Cisłak A.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2014

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vol. 45

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issue 4

426-433

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Two experiments probed the role of strategies used in social conflicts on perception of agency and communion. In study 1, persons who revealed prosocial orientation were perceived as less agentic, but more communal than those who revealed competitive orientation. In study 2 these findings were replicated in the context of organizational conflict, those who decided to use confrontational strategies were also perceived as more agentic, although less communal than these who used cooperative strategies. In line with the theory of power effects on objectification of social targets, the perceived agency and communion were differently linked to superior’s and subordinate’s evaluation. While perceived agency predicted the subordinate’s evaluation, perceived communion predicted superior’s evaluation, but not the other way round. Moreover, perception of communion (but not agency) mediated the negative effect of confrontational strategies on supervisor’s evaluation. On the other hand, perceived agency suppressed the effect of strategies on subordinate’s evaluation.

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The ‘Stranger’ as a Challenge for Communion Ecclesiology

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Nadbrzeżny A.

Roczniki Teologiczne

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2016

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vol. 63

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issue 2: Teologia dogmatyczna - English Version

191-204

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In this paper, the author deals with the question of communion ecclesiology in the context of the current migration crisis in Europe. Contextual theology based on the correlation method tries to develop the understanding of the Church’s essence and mission by using the ecclesiological model called communion and putting it in the contemporary social context. The notion of the ‘stranger’ introduced by the sociologists into the public discourse seems to be very operative and useful category for ecclesiology as well. The first part of the article presents the phenomenon of the stranger in sociological perspective. The second part discusses Jesus as Sacrament of God in the encounter with strangers. The author analyses Jesus’ words and his attitude to strangers and socially alienated people. The third part describes the Church as the sacrament of responsibility and open home for strangers and poor people. The Church can be also understood as the mother with a heart open especially to those who suffer from war and misery. In the final part of this paper the author presents some pastoral implications. He draws attention to the necessity to enhance the social aspect of Eucharist and to encourage the believers to create the ‘culture of solidarity’ with refugees and strangers in need.

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Pluriformità nell’unità: una forma della Chiesa di oggi. Una proposta per rinnovare la parrocchia

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Malinowski Ł.

Studia Ełckie

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2021

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vol. 23

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issue 3

369-387

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The Church must continually ask herself how to be a witness of the Gospel to the world in which she lives. In her work of evangelization even today, therefore, the Church must deal with the socio-cultural context that she faces, characterized by an increasingly plural society and by continuous changes that have affected the institution, gestures and tools of the Christian tradition. It is therefore urgent that the Church make a critical reflection on her identity and her pastoral activity and, attentive to the signs of the times, try to review and renew her form and structures, beginning with the parish, a privileged place for the construction of the christian community and her mission. Since the parish is traditionally considered the «home of all», it is the place where the differences that animate the Church are most evident; therefore, it is called to enhance all the ecclesial experiences that arise from the different charisms. The parish and all the associations and groups present in it represent various forms in which the Church is realized. With this article I want to demonstrate that pluriformity in unity can be the form of the Church today, because the more plural and complex the society is, the more the Churchʼs proposal must be pluriform if she wants Christ to reach everyone. Pluriformity shows different forms of the Christian experience that express the unity of the Church. It is therefore an expression of the Churchʼs liveliness and catholicity. It also recalls that the subject of the Churchʼs mission is never the individual, but a community, a reflection of the communio that the Church lives in every part of the world.

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Faith According to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

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Zyzak W.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2013

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vol. 3

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issue 1

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The subject of this article is faith according to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the present Pope Benedict XVI. At the beginning the author presents the Cardinal’s diagnosis of the state of faith in the contemporary world. Joseph Ratzinger shows both positive and negative features of this state. After having presented the sociological aspect, the author deals with the essence of the faith according to Ratzinger. The further analysis concern the sacramental dimension of the Christian faith. Because the real faith is necessarily the faith of the Church, the article also indicates its communion dimension. The author additionally discusses a very important topic concerning the relation of faith to reason and truth. At the end of the article the reader can find the teaching of Cardinal about the relation between faith and history.

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Prezbiter - świadek i sługa komunii. Aktualność przesłania Listu do moich kapłanów

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Olczyk M.

Teologia i Moralność

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2011

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vol. 6

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issue 2(10)

119-140

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The author of the article was inspired by the reflections of Primate Stefan Wyszyński on the identity and mission of the presbyter collected in A Letter to my Priests. The book takes up a range of themes integrated by an obvious concern for the unity of priests in the service of ecclesial communion. For the Primate of the Millennium man's social nature clearly confirms the truth about man's calling to live in community, not just the temporal one, but the supernatural one as well. This natural capacity to enter into relations with others, in order to be understood correctly, must be interpreted in the light of Divine Revelation. A rich inner life allows one to contemplate the mystery of the Holy Trinity and perceive it as a source of ecclesial and interpersonal communion. The gift of supernatural power inherent in communion with God in the Church enables those who believe in Christ to forge new fraternal relations, making them a true family of God. This process occurs thanks to priestly ministry, so presbyters are especially called to illuminate their mutual relations with this new style of community life. A personal bond with God, relation with the bishop ordinary, other presbyters and the lay faithful are the basic dimensions in which priests are to appear as the witnesses and servants of communion.

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Autor artykułu był inspirowany przez refleksją prymasa Stefana Wyszyńskiego dotyczącą tożsamości i misji kapłana, które zawarł w „Listach do moich kapłanów”. Książka podejmuje szereg tematów zintegrowanych przez troskę o jedność kapłanów w służbie kościelnej komunii. Dar nadprzyrodzonej mocy występującej w komunii z Bogiem w Kościele pozwala tym, którzy wierzą w Chrystusa na ukształtowanie nowych relacje braterskich, co czyni ich prawdziwą Bożą rodziną. Osobista więź z Bogiem, relacji z biskupem zwyczajnym, innych kapłanów i świeckich są podstawą wymiary, w której księża mają pojawić się jako świadkowie i słudzy komunii.

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A different story of modern economic science

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Bazzichi O., Reali F.

Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne

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2021

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vol. 34

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issue 1

148-178

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This paper wants to demonstrate a scenario where it is evident that the medieval society, starting from the monasticism of St. Benedict (famous motto of «ora et labora») and continuing with the Franciscan School, conserves many elements and ideas of intellectual interest that have a reverberation still valid for today, especially concerning the relationship of man with the economy. The age of the Late Middle Ages in Europe laid the foundations of modern economic science, giving impulse to quite singular reflections gathered from the interpretation of reality, in a typically «Franciscan» key, grasping in the fraternity (franciscan fraternitas) the anthropological and ontological element for the good living in the communitas and for the integral sustainability, therefore, valid also for the economy. It resulted, in fact, the first economic and commercial lexicon that will spread throughout Europe, by the work of important disciples of St. Francis, who grasped a new «spirit» of making economy, completely original, countercurrent, contradicting the prevailing thesis of Max Weber. But Franciscan humanism still offers, even today, the anthropological, social, and cultural presuppositions for a shift of paradigm within the economic discourse, based on the person with all his inclinations and necessities, presuppositions that are already visible in the experience of the Economy of Communion in Freedom, born on May 29, 1991, among the misery of Brazil, to solve the social and economic problem of this time. This revolution of the late Middle Ages, social and market, which was also intellectual and aimed at facing the poverty and injustice of that time, is still repeated today with new faces, experiences, and theories.

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Komunikacja interpersonalna drogą do chrześcijańskiego braterstwa

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Żurek A.

Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie

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2016

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issue 23

277-289

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Artykuł prezentuje problematykę chrześcijańskiego braterstwa. W teologicznym rozumieniu braterstwo zostało ukazane jako wspólnota z Bogiem i mające swe źródło już w akcie stworzenia. Człowiek stworzony na obraz i podobieństwo Boga realizuje się zarówno we wspólnocie z Bogiem, jak również we wspólnocie osób. W tej drugiej istotną rolę odgrywają procesy psychologiczne, a wśród nich uwarunkowania komunikacji interpersonalnej. Ostatnia część artykułu ukazuje dojrzałą komunikację interpersonalną jako istotny warunek tworzenia wspólnoty i wzajemnego braterstwa.

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The article presents the issue of Christian brotherhood. The theological understanding of brotherhood has been shown as the communion with God and having its source in the act of creation. Man created in the image and likeness of God participates in the communion with God, as well as in the communion of people. In the latter communion an important role is played by psychological processes, including the conditions of interpersonal communication. The last part of the article presents a mature interpersonal communication as a crucial condition of creating communion and mutual brotherhood.

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Wiara jako klucz do tożsamości kapłańskiej. Próba komentarza w świetle Dekretu o posłudze i życiu prezbiterów „Presbyterorum ordinis”

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Tułowiecki D.

Studia Paradyskie

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2013

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issue 23

157-191

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Opublikowany w czasie Soboru Watykańskiego II Dekret o posłudze i życiu kapłanów przypomina i ukazuje w nowym świetle nauczanie Kościoła o tożsamości i zadaniach duchownego w Kościele. W definicji tej należy wyodrębnić myśl, która doczekała się szerokiego rozwinięcia w kolejnych dokumentach Kościoła. Według niej, prezbiter jest sługą komunii. Jego zadania obejmują: troskę o komunię z biskupem, innymi prezbiterami, całym Kościołem i zadanie prowadzania do komunii z Bogiem wierzących oraz niewierzących. Warunkiem realizacji tej misji jest systematyczna i trwała troska o własną komunię z Jezusem Chrystusem. Brak tej troski niszczy samego prezbitera i ma destrukcyjny wpływ na Kościół.

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Published at the time of the Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, reminds and shows in a new light the identity of the Church's teaching and clerical tasks in the Church. From this definition a thought should be extracted which at last was developed to an extense in subsequent documents of the Church. According to it, the priest is a servant of communion. His tasks include: commitment to communion with the bishop, other priests, the whole Church and to the task of conducting communion with God,by both believers and non-believers. Accomplishment of this mission comes with systematic and permanent care of their own communion with Jesus Christ. A lack of care destroys the priest and has a corrosive effect on the church.

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You are so kind – and I am kind and smart: Actor – Observer Differences in the Interpretation of On-going Behavior

Gender and agency versus communion at the threshold of adulthood

Whether you are smart or kind depends on how I feel: The influence of positive and negative mood on agency and communion perception

Volunteering involvementand agency, communion and ethics

Does Communal Context Bring the Worst in Narcissists?

The mystery of communion in narcissism: The success-as-a-flaw effect

Competence over Communion: Implicit Evaluations of Personality Traits During Goal Pursuit

Pneumatology and Politics: The role of the Holy Spirit in the articulation of an Orthodox political theology

Duch Święty w kontekście współczesnej teologii komunijnej

The Father in the Communion of the Holy Trinity

Budowanie komunii z Bogiem w rodzinie przez słowo Boże

Wojtyła’s Category of Participation and the Question of Common Good

Impact of Conflict Resolution Strategies on Perception of Agency, Communion and Power Roles Evaluation

The ‘Stranger’ as a Challenge for Communion Ecclesiology

Pluriformità nell’unità: una forma della Chiesa di oggi. Una proposta per rinnovare la parrocchia

Faith According to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

Prezbiter - świadek i sługa komunii. Aktualność przesłania Listu do moich kapłanów

A different story of modern economic science

Komunikacja interpersonalna drogą do chrześcijańskiego braterstwa

Wiara jako klucz do tożsamości kapłańskiej. Próba komentarza w świetle Dekretu o posłudze i życiu prezbiterów „Presbyterorum ordinis”