O początkach mariawityzmu, archiwum watykańskim i nieznanych dokumentach oraz ich (nad/re/nie)interpretacji: H. Seweryniak, „Święte Oficjum a mariawici”, Płock 2014
On the Beginnings of Mariavitism, the Vatican Archives and the Unknown Documents, and their (over- /re-/no-) Interpretation: H. Seweryniak, „Święte Oficjum a mariawici”, Płock 2014

Summary/Abstract: In recent years we have seen growing interest in the issues of Mariavitism. Researchers dealing with this subject matter primarily analyze historical contexts and (sometimes) the doctrinal functioning of the Old Catholic Church and the Mariavite Catholic Church. So far, no one has studied the development of Mariavitism, acting even within the structures of the Roman Catholic Church (in the years 1893-1906). Such a situation resulted mainly from lack of access to documents held in the archives of the Vatican and St. Petersburg. This text is a polemic with the theses of the book of Father Henryk Seweryniak “Święte Oficjum a mariawici”, who was the first to attempt to analyze the Mariavite movement in the light of Vatican archives. This polemic touches upon the level of historical, religious and theological facts. Their interpretation and the method of their presentation by Fr. H. Seweryniak arouse reservations of a methodological nature. The a priori assumption of the author of the work in question is the falseness of the vision and mystical experiences of the founder of the Mariavites congregation, and he subordinates historical facts and the religious studies in a non-theological perspective, but rather in the context of apologetics. Events, confirmed in texts and source documents as well as hypotheses that would deny the a priori assumptions of the author, constitute an absent discourse on the pages of „Święte Oficjum a mariawici”.

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