Kwartalnik Instytutu
Jana Pawła II KUL

“Ethos”
30: 2017 No. 3(119)

THE ETHOS OF LIGHT

• From the Editors – The Need for Clarity (D.Ch.)
  J o h n P a u l II – The Light: The Symbol of Life (Easter Vigil Homily, Vatican, 6 April 1996)

TOWARDS THE LIGHT, TOWARDS GOD

• Fr. Dariusz D z i a d o s z – “Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path” (Ps 119:105): A Theological Reading of the Idea of Light in the Traditions of the Old Testament
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• Krzysztof L e ś n i e w s k i – To See the Light: Divine Light in the Tradition of Eastern Christianity
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• Bartłomiej B r ą ż k i e w i c z – The Taboric Light and the Light of the Icon: From Byzantine Mosaics to Andrei Rublev
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TO COMPREHEND THE LIGHT

• Dobrosław K o t – The Honorable Yoke of Metaphor: Some Remarks Inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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• Marcin T r e p c z y ń s k i – The Light as the arché of the World: Robert Grosseteste’s Metaphysics of Light
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TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT

• Tomasz S i k o r a – Theurgy of Light: Selected Issues of the Mysticism of Light in Judaism
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• Katarzyna P a c h n i a k – The Concept of Light in Islam: The Mysticism of Light in The Niche of Lights by Al-Ghazali
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THE LIGHT OF HOPE, THE LIGHT OF INTELLECT

• Adam P o t k a y – “Something Evermore about to Be.” The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era
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• Adam P o t k a y – “Something Evermore about to Be.” The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era (transl. by D. Chabrajska)
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• Agnieszka K. H a a s – A Darkness Full of Light: German Literature and Painting of the Turn of the 19th Century Facing the Problem of Cognition and Introspection
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• Michał S o k u l s k i – On Seers and Prophetic Acts: Zygmunt Krasiński’s Reflections on Poetry and Poets in the Context of the Origins of the Prophecy of Przedświt
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LIGHT – BEAUTY – TRANSCENDENCE

• Michał H a a k e – The Language of Transcendence: The Hermeneutics of Light in Caravaggio’s Religious Paintings
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• Agnieszka T e s – The Present, the Contemplative, the Creative: On the Manifestations of Light in the Contemporary Polish Abstract Painting
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• Tomasz F e r e n c, Bartłomiej T a l a g a – Lux machina, or Some Remarks on Photography and Light
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TO OVERCOME THE DARKNESS

• Agata S k a ł a – Axioms and Mystifications, or On Light and the Dark Side of Cognition: A Preliminary Sketch for the Portrait of Julian Ochorowicz
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• Jacek J a n o w s k i – The Dark Side of the Optical Fibers: On the Need for an Integral Study of the Information Civilization
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KAROL WOJTYŁA – JOHN PAUL II
INSPIRATIONS

• Jarosław K u p c z a k OP – From Encounter to Cognition: On Karol Wojtyła’s Song of the Hidden God
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THINKING ABOUT THE FATHERLAND...

• Adam F I T A S – The Light from Below: On the Role of a Polish Philology Student Research Group in the University’s Humanities (A Side Note to the History of the Polish Philology Student Research Group at the Catholic University of Lublin)
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NOTES AND REVIEWS

• Józef F. F e r t – A Little Philosophy, a Little Poetry... On 76 wierszy by Alfred Marek (review of Alfred M. Wierzbicki’s 76 wierszy, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Test–Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy, 2017)
• Krzysztof P o l i t – Between Happiness and Suffering (review of Bohdan Dziemidok’s Filozofia a sztuka życia, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2017)
• Bogumiła T r u c h l i ń s k a – The Dusk of Europe: The Dusk of Christianity? (review of Robert T. Ptaszek’s Zmierzch Europy? Perspektywy przyszłości a chrześcijaństwo, Warszawa-Radzymin: Wydawnictwo von Borowiecky, 2017)
• Books recommended by Ethos (From the Absurd to Revolt: Dynamics in Albert Camus’s Thought. De l’absurde à la révolte. Dynamique de la pensée d’Albert Camus, ed. M. Kałuża and P. Mróz, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2017; M. Rajewski, Ku antropologii procesualnej. Dyfuzjonizm brytyjski przełomu XIX i XX wieku, Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2017)

THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ETHOS

• Patrycja M i k u l s k a – To Carry the Light

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Maria F i l i p i a k – The Light We Are Awaiting: A Bibliography of Addresses by John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis from 1978 to 2017
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Notes about the Authors

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