Dialog i nadzieja. Ekumenizm w teologii ks. Wacława Hryniewicza
DIALOG AND HOPE. ECUMENISM IN WACLAW HRYNIEWICZ’S THEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article is the presentation of the principal problems of Waclaw Hryniewicz’s religious thought. Since many years, in his numerous articles and books, this Polish theologian and ecumenist has been joining two great traditions of Christian West and East and trying to prove the necessity of contemporary, ecumenical dialog. For reader who knows the works written by priest, professor Waclaw Hryniewicz it is easy to notice that his theological reflection is pervaded through the spirit of Eastern Christianity, concretely speaking – Orthodox. In his theology one can also find references to Anglican and Lutheran thought, generally: protestant. But the foundation is the relationship with Orthodox Church. This relationship embraces the Christian East before the Great Schism, succession of Greek and Eastern Fathers. It appears, that dialogue with Christian East is the source of Hryniewicz’s theology. Besides direct references to philosophical and theological thought of Vladimir Solovyov, Nicolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Paul Evdokimov and Russian artists and writers as Andrey Rublov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, in many Hryniewicz’s statements one can feel the theological, philosophical and concerning of philosophy of history threads that since many ages had been analysed by great Russians thinkers and earlier by Eastern Fathers. For Waclaw Hryniewicz, who is one of the most outstanding contemporary Polish ecumenists, this kind of relation with Russian philosophical-religious and theological reflection is natural as respiration (in this moment we can feel the metaphorical association of Hryniewicz activity with well-known qualification concerning relation between Catholic and Orthodox Churches – “two lungs” of the same Christian Church). Simply, this is the “constitutional” relation. The turn towards the East is not strange in Hryniewicz’s compositions case. He discovered there very strong confirmation of his theological presentiments. Already in Soloviov’s Shor t tale about the Antichrist, that was added to Tree conversations (1900), the ecumenical intuitions crystallized, the cautions connected with danger of false Christian union were emphasized, very “bitter” words expressing the doubt related to possibility of authentic Christian Churches union realization in the conditions of “this world” were spoken. Further more, Nicolai Berdyaev, considered by many scholars as the most outstanding representative of Russian twentieth-century emigration thought, strongly contributed in organization of inter-confession meetings in Western Europe. During those meetings, Anglicanism Catholics, Orthodox Church confessors discussed different problems that were important not only for Christianity. Nicolai Berdyaev, basing on friendly relations with famous intellectuals from France, England, Germany, Japan, United States, tried to show the Orthodox thought, to make more understandable for the West. The echoes of ideas of Lecture about Godman-hood’s author as well as New Middl

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