Kontemplacja i poznanie per raptum. Tomaszowe źródła rozumienia istoty doświadczenia mistycznego

• Authors: Andrzejuk Izabella

Title variants

EN

Contemplation and cognition per raptum. Thomas’s sources of understanding the essence of the mystical experience

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to present the problem of contemplation and knowledge per raptum in St. Thomas Aquinas’s account. Both of these methods of cognizing seem to be an inspiration for the twentieth-century and contemporary Thomists to build the concept of mystical experience. Mystical experience is defined differently in various thomistic interpretations. However, we are primarily interested in the recognition of M. Gogacz, who understood the mystical experience as a sudden, unexpected and unearned experience of God by the human potential intellect. Although Thomas himself was not concerned with the mystical experience as such, but the analysis of selected texts allows us to accept the thesis that mystical experience, which was shared by the great mystics (St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross) contains some elements of Thomistic contemplation, and above all, the cognition per raptum.

Keywords

PL

kontemplacja; poznanie per raptum; doświadczenie mistyczne; Tomasz z Akwinu; tomizm

EN

contemplation; cognition per raptum; mystical experience; Thomas Aquinas; thomism

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 59-76

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Andrzejuk Izabella

• Wyższa Szkoła Stosunków Międzynarodowych i Amerykanistyki w Warszawie
• Wyższa Szkoła Komunikowania, Politologii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych w Warszawie