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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2019)
2020-05-22The twelfth issue of the yearly Itinera Spiritualia contains papers that deal with various issues of spiritual theology, humanities, biblical studies, Church history, ecclesiology and archival science. The article of Fr Piotr Nyk concerns biblical symbols of the Church as the “Body of Christ” and the “People of God” and their extraordinary history of rediscovery in the theology of the 19th and the 20th centuries, and combines the history of the Church with themes belonging to dogmatic theology – ecclesiology. Similarly, in the article by Fr Jerzy Zieliński entitled The Polish Archives of the Discalced Carmelites: History, Outstanding Figures, Method and Collections, there are topics that belong both to Church history and archival science. Spiritual theology, which occupies a particularly important place in Itinera Spiritualia, is presented in the paper Marriage Symbolism in the Mysticism of St Teresa of Ávila (by Fr Marek Chmielewski) and in the text showing The Origin of Élisabeth Catez’s Religious Calling, i.e. the path of the development of the calling of St Elizabeth of the Trinity and her mission to others (by Fr Antonio Kaddissy). There are two articles in the section dedicated to the Bible. Fr Szczepan Tadeusz Praśkiewicz presents the spiritual image of the Blessed Virgin Mary that emerges from the pages of the Holy Bible. In turn, Sr Agnieszka Ziemińska’s text provides an interesting interpretation of the phrase “the fringe of his garment” from Luke’s Gospel (8:44) in the light of ancient biblical and non-biblical testimonies. As part of the broadly understood humanities and “dialogue with contemporary culture” we propose an article by Fr Bartłomiej Kucharski, dealing with the current topic of the darkness of faith in the modern world. Starting from the darkness of faith experienced by eminent representatives of the world of science and culture of the last centuries, the author attempts to confront them with the darkness experienced in the light of faith by Job, Jesus Christ and St Thérèse of Lisieux. Fr Damian Sochacki, a PhD student in classical philology at the Jagiellonian University, introduces us to the translation skills of one of the fi rst Poles in the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, Fr Andrzej Brzechwa (1584–1640), based on his translation of the works of St John of the Cross into Neolatin. -
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018)
2019-02-25This year, we commemorate the 450th anniversary of that pivotal decision to which the Carmelites were inspired by St Teresa of Jesus. In the current issue of our annual, this accounts for the publication of the text by Fr Ciro Garcia Fernandez. The author, a longstanding expert on the Reformed Carmel, sets out to present the charismatic journey of the Theresian Carmel using the life-stories and works of the key saints and blesseds of the Order. This approach of introducing the Theresian Carmelite charism on the basis of spiritual paths, itinera spiritualia, is wonderfully in sync with the line of our periodical which, as its title suggests, aims at presenting spiritual theology by looking at its expression in the lives of individual people. A similar idea lies at the root of the two articles about the spiritual life of St Raphael Kalinowski by Fr Jerzy W. Gogola and Eugeniusz Wilkowski. Fr Krzysztof Pawłowski discusses various explanations of the mysterious disease which afflicted St Therese of Lisieux at the age of ten. This issue of Itinera Spiritualia introduces also the third and last part of the interdisciplinary comparative study, spanning philosophy and theology, by Fr Albert S. Wach. Fr Rafał A. Wilkowski using the theological and the legal dogmatic method shows the proper understanding of autonomy and communion in the case of cloistered Carmel nuns. This issue closes with a biblical text by Fr Krzysztof Bieliński, C.Ss.R. -
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2017)
2018-03-06The 10th issue of the yearbook "Itinera Spiritualia" deals with the some hitherto unknown texts of Carmelite saints for the very first time in Poland. There are the letter of St Teresa of Jesus from 1576 (translation and commentary by J. Nawojowski) and the two pems of St Elisabeth of the Trinity (translation and Commentary by J. K. Miczyński). The present volume of "Itinera Spiritualia" yields also the articles with the current topics from the life of the church like the two metaphors, the "creativity of mercy" and the "balm of mercy" (M. Chmielewski), with the topics from the doctrine of Carmelite saints (J. W. Gogola, A. Ruszała, L. Wrona), and with the respective research of the lectures of the Carmelite Institut of Spirituality in Kraków like the Pneumatical Dimension of Desire (M. Zawada) and the Elements of Biblical Anthropology (P. Nyk). -
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2016)
2018-03-06Published since 2008, "Itinera Spiritualia" is issued yearly by the Carmelite Institute of Spirituality and by the Publishing House of Discalced Carmelites in Kraków, Poland. Each issue of the journal includes scholarly articles dedicated to specific themes of theology of spirituality and its connections with other theological and scientifical specializations.
Among the topics of the issue number IX the most are connected with the life and the teaching of St Teresa of Jesus (four articles, including three in foreign languages) and two articles with the evangelical counsels. The other articles deal with current topics, connected with the Year of Mercy (2016), with the task of renewed reading of the Constitution of Institutes of Consecrated Life and with the rule of gender in a spiritual life.
