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Evelin Underhill ‒ Mysticism as the Art of Being in Relationship with the Absolute
The text attempts to outline the spiritual profile of Evelin Underhill, an English mystic from the first half of the 20th century, on her journey to introduce mysticism into the everyday life of Christians, that is, to make mystical spirituality a crucial element of the practical Christian life. The main determinant of spirituality thus understood is its orientation, and with it the practical Christian life, toward the Absolute. This orientation gives meaning to the Christian’s life and influences their life choices.
Copyright (c) 2025 Kazimierz Pawłowski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Neurotheology and Theology: Introductory Issues
The article presents neurotheology as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationship between religious experiences and brain activity. It discusses its methodology, history, and key researchers. The relationship between neurotheology and theology is analyzed, along with critical perspectives on its assumptions. Potential directions for the field’s development are outlined. The article also presents the scope of cooperation between theology and neurotheology, as well as the potential benefits of this collaboration for the former field.
Copyright (c) 2025 Alicja Grygiel, Katarzyna Owczarek, Franciszek Romaniuk, Weronika Patelska, Patrycja Rybicka, Przemysław Strzyżyński, Michał Woźny https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
The Concept of the Dignity of the Human Person According to Thomas Aquinas
For Thomas and his contemporaries, personal dignity is the basis of being a person, a formal element that constitutes a person. According to Aquinas, the dignity of a person is its especially perfect way of existence consisting in existing by itself and for itself, that is, in existing as an end in itself. Being an end in itself is realized through freedom. It is visible above all in the fact that a person realizes his/her own, self-determined goals and is not just a tool for realizing the goals of other people or God. Thomas’s concept is surprisingly coherent with the paradigm of dignity adopted in contemporary international law and the constitutional orders of many countries. It justifi es why a person cannot be treated as an object. Therefore it may provide solid anthropological foundations for modern-day legal orders and for ethics. It also explains the trinitarian and christological dogmas, allowing to avoid the heresies of tritheism and Nestorianism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Roeske https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
At the Crossroads of Christianity and Philosophy: St. Paul in Athens
The purpose of this article is to deepen our understanding of St Paul’s stay in Athens as well reflect upon the speech that he delivered at the Areopagus. The article aims to achieve this by focussing primarily on the rejection that was levied against St Paul by Greek philosophers (representatives of the Hellenistic Schools of Epicureanism and Stoicism) of the central Christian truth articulated by the Apostle; namely the rejection of the Resurrection. Against this rejection of the Resurrection, the relationship between Christianity and philosophy can be explored in a more intentional way. St Paul’s address to the people gathered at the Areopagus has been a topic that has been frequently studied and interpreted by many learned people throughout history. It has become an image of the theology of preaching, missiology, and even philosophy itself. The speech has even been seen as a lesson in humility that the great Apostle had to accept himself as well as a lesson in understanding the hardness of human hearts in the light of the Resurrection. It can also be construed that in presenting the encounter between St Paul and the philosophers at the Areopagus, the author of the Acts of the Apostles intended to highlight the exclusive nature of pagan wisdom in contrast to the universal saving message of the Gospels which would soon supplant Greek philosophy as the bedrock of civilization. In all of this, however, it can be argued that the reason for the fundamental discord between human wisdom in its Hellenistic form and the Christian kerygma has not been adequately explored. It would be rather simplistic to assume that the Word of God undermines philosophy or vice versa. Since St Luke so emphatically describes this entire event and presents the Areopagus as the setting for one of the greatest confrontations recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, it naturally deserves closer attention. The entire Lukan narrative in the New Testament is a great account of the Word of God beginning to penetrate the world of that time, including ‒ as it turns out ‒ the world of pagan philosophy. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to examine this significant encounter between two worlds: that of philosophy and Christianity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Bartłomiej Adamski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
The Neutralization of Existence in Immanuel Kant's Philosophy According to Existential Thomism
The aim of this paper is to present the issue of existence in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant from the perspective of existential Thomism. It is based primarily on the concept of neutralization of existence presented by Gilson. The paper presents the differences and similarities between the Kantian and Thomistic understandings of existence. The place of existence in phenomena is also presented. There is also an analysis of the reasons why, from a Thomistic point of view, existence can be considered neutralized in Kant’s philosophy.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marcin Woziwodzki https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
In Quest of the Truth of Life. Review of Przemysław Zgórecki’s book, From Philosophy of Religion to Philosophy of Religious Experience. The Perspective of French Phenomenology (Poznań 2025)
Review of Przemysław Zgórecki’s book, From Philosophy of Religion to Philosophy of Religious Experience. The Perspective of French Phenomenology (Poznań 2025).
Copyright (c) 2025 Dariusz Barbaszyński https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/