Results found: 2

Search results

Search:
in the keywords: contemplative prayer

Sort By:

Limit search:

Nadzwyczajność i nowość w ruchu odnowy charyzmatycznej. Co jest darem Ducha Świętego, a co kreacją człowieka?

100%

Guzowski K.

Studia Teologii Dogmatycznej

2017

vol. 3

The Charismatic Renewal movement, in whose wake a number of evangelizing communities of prayer and new religious congregations have appeared, is nowadays identified with what is unusual – with extraordinary forms of devotion and the like phenomena. The author reminds us that 50 years ago, which is exactly when the movement began to unfold, it was perceived as one of the most significant signs of the New Pentecost, or the Holy Spirit’s intensified work in our times. Paul VI and the subsequent popes pointed to the Holy Spirit’s “intensified activity”, deeming Him to be the Reviver of the Church and the Font of the world’s new life. Alas, the mighty presence in question, as well as the Holy Spirit’s intensified activity in the Church, have been overshadowed by, on the one hand, ever-increasing focus on the part of the members of the movement under scrutiny on what in the first place satisfies the needs of people, i.e. healing and unusual phenomena; and, on the other hand, by the excessive scepticism of theologians and pastors, who for the 50 years of the Renewal existence have not equipped the faithful, unable to tell the essence from the unusualness, with their theological reflection. The author pays attention to the fact that the categories of “ordinary” and “extraordinary” with regard to the New Pentecost do not put anything in order, but, subjective as they are, they hinder the theological reflection itself. Thus, he suggests that we focus on the diff erentiation of what is the Holy Spirit’s gift from what is man’s creation. In the article he compares from this point of view two “ordinary” areas of the Holy Spirit’s activity – the baptism in the Holy Spirit and contemplative prayer. By doing so, Guzowski proves that the emphasis on the person of the Holy Spirit and His work of sanctification allows us to tell the essence of the New Pentecost from secondary issues.

Naturalne metody stymulacji doświadczenia ekstazy w praktykach prawosławnych hezychastów

63%

Przybył-Sadowska E.

Studia Religiologica

2011

vol. 44

121-133

This article is an attempt to analyse the Orthodox monastic tradition of contemplative (hesychastic) prayer, the goal of which was to achieve an ecstatic unification with God and the divinisation (theosis) of human nature. Until the 11th century the practice of this kind of prayer was passed on orally, preserving the spiritual father-disciple relation. However, some of its elements can be found in the writings of some of the Fathers of the Church – e.g. Athanasius of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers – Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus – as well as in the works of Evagrius of Pontus and John Climacus. The continuation of this tradition includes the works of the leading Byzantine theologist of the 11th century St Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022). However, it was not until the 14th century, as a result of the dispute caused by the statements of the Byzantine monk Barlaam of Calabria, that there was a systematic approach to hesychasm in Byzantine writings. In response, St Gregory Palamas (1296-1359), based on the book of the fathers of the Church, systematically described the doctrine of hesychasm in three treatises (triads) entitled In Defence of the Holy Hesychasts, and written in the years 1338-1341. This doctrine, sometimes known as palamism after St Gregory Palamas, was recognised as an authentic expression of Orthodox faith at the council in Constantinople in 1351. The article analyses the most important elements of the hesychastic method and descriptions of the visions experienced during the practice of it.

Refine search results

1 Studia Religiologica

1 Studia Teologii Dogmatycznej

1 Guzowski K.

1 Przybył-Sadowska E.

1 2017

1 2012

Search results

Nadzwyczajność i nowość w ruchu odnowy charyzmatycznej. Co jest darem Ducha Świętego, a co kreacją człowieka?

Naturalne metody stymulacji doświadczenia ekstazy w praktykach prawosławnych hezychastów