(in Polish) Antropologiczne podstawy duchowosci chrześcijańskiej

elementary

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PhD studies

1.presence

2. active participation in discussions during classes

3. final written assignment

Christian spirituality is a cooperation between a person and God. Getting to know God is at the same time discovering who a person is. It is one of important elements of the spiritual growth. The workshops deal with problems of anthropology. They are based on analysis of anthropological texts of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of the Cross. The first of them is a systematic theologian using precise theological language. St. John belongs to the classics of christian mysticism. Both of them suggest particular structures of human construction. A quest to understand this construction is essential in Christian spiritual growth which is based on foundations such as personality and the arrangement and interdependence of particular mental and spiritual powers.

1. Human nature.

2. A human as a person.

3. A relation between "I" and "you" as a determinant of personal nature of man.

4. A structure of a human according to St. Thomas Aquinas.

5. Sensual and spiritual powers: carnality: the intellect, the will.

6. Anthropological language of the mystics.

7. Anthropological works of John of the Cross.

8. A structure of a human according to St. John in general.

9. The body and its powers.

10.The soul, the spirit and spiritual powers.

11. Spiritual powers of the intellect.

12.Memory and its tasks.

13.The dominant role of the will.

14. The purgation of powers through mystical union.

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