Czego nas uczy wiara mistyków? Refleksja na przykładzie pism siostry Roberty Babiak

• Authors: Paweł Synoś

Title variants

EN

What Can We Learn from the Faith of the Mystics? Selected Remarks on the Writings by Sister Roberta Babiak

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents how the mystical life of the Polish mystic Sister Roberta Babiak began, developed and manifested itself. The author discusses the particular stages in her mystical life: from expurgation, through partial union, up to transforming deifying union. In this way, the author illustrates the dynamics of Sister Babiak’s faith and expounds its major functions: help to achieve deeper cognition of the redemptive truths; to get to know God Himself as well as to build communion with Him. The author also examines the attributes of this faith, emphasising the fact that it is ecclesiastical faith, shaped in the harmony with the ecclesiastical heritage and teaching. It is a light and a dark kind of faith, simultaneously: it grants a special gift for understanding the Revelation, but it also is an initiation into the mystery of the secret God. This is a living faith – rich in the gifts of the Holy Spirit – leading to the mystical experience: meeting God, Son and the Holy Spirit inside the mystic.

Keywords

PL

wiara; przymioty wiary; mistyka; rozwój duchowy; zjednoczenie z Bogiem

EN

faith; attributes of faith; mysticism; spiritual growth; communion with God

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Teologii
• Journal: Roczniki Teologii Duchowości
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 4(59)
• Pages: 149-167

Contributors

author

Paweł Synoś

• Katedra Historii Duchowości w Instytucie Teologii Duchowości KUL