Doświadczenia przełomowe w życiu powołanych do kapłaństwa
Breakthrough experienced in the lives of those with a vocation to priesthood

Author(s): Marta Bożewicz
Subject(s): Higher Education , Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: biographies; breakthrough experiences; priests; seminary students; conversion; turning point
Summary/Abstract: Discovering one’s self as a one having a vocation to priesthood is usually connected with a breakthrough experience – it may be small or global, may be one or many. Sometimes it manifests in the difficulty of describing an own experience, and on other occasions it is so vivid that it is forever engraved in the memory, with all of its details. Because it touches upon the spiritual life of an individual and connects with transcendence, it is a personal and intimate experience. In some biographies, a radical turning point is evident, and in others a long-lasting conversion of which the most evident display is adopting the perspective of a new group. The article describe four types of biographies of people having a vocation to priesthood, and including various breakthrough experiences. It is the result of research conducted with seminary students and priests, using a method of biographical interviews analyzed according to the concept by Fritz Schütze.

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