The Concept of Wisdom. A Qualitative Case Study of St. Faustina in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research
The Concept of Wisdom. A Qualitative Case Study of St. Faustina in the Light of Interdisciplinary Research

Summary/Abstract: The present paper has an interdisciplinary character and is placed at the crossroads ofa few disciplines, namely philosophy, theology and linguistics. Philosophy and theology,namely Christian personalism, constitutes the theoretical background for a qualitative linguis-tics case study of the original source text The Diary by a contemporary female Polish Catholicmystic and prophetess, Faustina Kowalska. The direct goal is to describe the concept of “wis-dom” embedded in her mystical and prophetic written record. The methods and tools havea mixed-character and come from social sciences and humanities (SSH). Both well-establishedmainstream perspectives and less obvious, complementary approaches coming from the newlyemerging sub-disciplines in linguistics, were used. The original, experimental focus is laid uponthe qualitative linguistic analysis of the semantic field of a single lexical unit “wisdom” ex-tracted from the original authentic text under the analysis. The results showed the concept of“wisdom” in the spiritual text explored is more extended with comparison with the conceptsdescribed by other sciences and that mystical and prophetic spiritual literature, i.e. originalsource texts are a great source of knowledge of human minds and thinking, in general.

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