Browsing by Author "Dobrzeniecki, Marek"

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    Maciej Raczyński-Rożek. Dwie ręce Ojca. Chrystologia Ducha w ujęciu Hansa Ursa von Balthasara i Sergiusza Bułgakowa (Myśl Teologiczna 116. Kraków: WAM, 2024)
    (Wydawnictwo KUL, 2024) Dobrzeniecki, Marek
    Recenzja książki: Maciej Raczyński-Rożek. Dwie ręce Ojca . Chrystologia Ducha w ujęciu Hansa Ursa von Balthasara i Sergiusza Bułgakowa (Myśl Teologiczna 116. Kraków: WAM, 2024). Ss. 524. 62,90 PLN. ISBN 978-83-277-3909-4.
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    The Metaphysics of the Incarnation in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion
    (Wydawnictwo KUL, 2021) Dobrzeniecki, Marek
    The paper presents the latest achievements of analytic philosophers of religion in Christology. My goal is to defend the literal/metaphysical reading of the Chalcedonian dogma of the hypostatic union. Some of the contemporary Christian thinkers claim that the doctrine of Jesus Christ as both perfectly divine and perfectly human is self-contradictory (I present this point of view on the example of John Hick) and, therefore, it should be understood metaphorically. In order to defend the consistency of the conciliar theology, I refer to the work of, among others, Eleonore Stump, William Hasker, Peter Geach and Kevin Sharpe. As a result, I conclude that recent findings in analytic metaphysics provide an ontological scaffolding that explains away the objection of the incompatibility of the doctrine of the hypostatic union. In order to confirm this conclusion such metaphysical topics as properties attribution (what it means for an object to have a property), relation of identity (what it means for an object x to be identical with object y), and essentialism and kind membership (what it means for an object to belong necessarily to a kind) are scrutinized in detail.
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    The Theology of Hiddenness: J. L. Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness, and the Role of Theology
    (Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, 2021) Dobrzeniecki, Marek; King, Derek
    The paper explores Pascal’s idea according to which the teachings of the Church assume the hiddenness of God, and, hence, there is nothing surprising in the fact of the occurrence of nonresistant nonbelief. In order to show it the paper invokes the doctrines of the Incarnation, the Church as the Body of Christ, and the Original Sin. The first one indicates that there could be greater than nonbelief obstacle in forming interpersonal bonds with God, namely the ontological chasm between him and human persons. The assumption of the human nature by the Son of God could be seen as a cure for this problem. The doctrine of the Church shows it as an end in itself, and in order for the Church to have meaning and to exist there has to be nonbelief in the world. Finally, the dogma of the Original Sin shows that there is no category of purely nonresistant nonbelief. The paper also addresses Schellenberg’s “accommodationist strategy” from the perspective of the Christian theology and in the last part it investigates what should be the influence of the fact of the hiddenness on theology’s take on the divine revelation.