„Sługa panu zaprzedany”… Mickiewiczowskie wieszczenie teologii słabego Boga
Servant Subservient to the Master… Mickiewicz’s Prediction of Weak God Theology

Summary/Abstract: The servant – God, the master – man. The curiously reversed metaphor of the God-man configuration is revealed not only in the cited fragment of the poem: Rozmowa wieczorna (Conversation at Evening); the need for reflection and the re-establishment of the man-God relation already after the secularisation power to “disenchant” the world comes to the fore in numerous fragments of Mickiewicz’s distinctively religious oeuvre The author of Zdania i uwagi (Sentences and Comments) perceived the revolutionary dimension of Christianity, its subversive nature dealing with a weak God surrendering to suffering and open towards man in need of His help in the world. This reflection is shared not only by Silesian mysticism (in particular the poetry of Angelus Silesius), but also by related post-secular reinterpretations of Christianity based on the theology of Paul of Tarsus and his conception of “power made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12, 9–11). The theology of a weak God formulated by John D. Caputo (and contained in his The Weakness of God. A Theology of the Event ) constitutes a context providing a new instrumentarium for deciphering and presenting the unique religious thought of Mickiewicz.

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