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Location: Wroclaw, Poland
The film deals with the topic of proving or disproving the existence or non-existence of God. It makes a distinction between knowledge and faith in the discussion about the existence of God. It presents four basic approaches to the topic of God's existence; these are...
The lecture focuses on selected thoughts from the widely known book by the Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto - "The Idea of the Holy", published in Wrocław. In this text, Otto, when describing faith, wants to bring out its pre-rational dimension. Before it is confessed...
Managing a Christian organization requires decision-making. We often think this is an easy process because we need to rely on biblical principles or analyse the situation. However, the challenges in everyday life are much more complex, and it is worth understanding...
I will speak today about managing the big crises that sadly happen in churches. How do you build good practices in your organization to challenge people's transparency and integrity? Let's talk about it.
In this short video I will present the statements of Dietrich Bonhoeffer regarding Christian ethics, in the hope that they will provoke you to think about your own ethics. I will also list a few components of different ethics and ask about your attitude towards them.
This year, 2023, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Wrocław, Silesia. Archbishop Alfons Nossol received an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology here in Wrocław in 2007. As a demonstration of his insightful analysis of...
We usually divide people into believers and non-believers. But what if we assume that everyone somehow believes? One of the greatest Protestant theologians of the 20th century followed this path.
In this short video I would like to invite you to reflect with me on the Decalogue. I suggest taking a look at the Decalogue again, starting from the Biblical sources and also reaching out to rabbinic Judaism. An obvious question arises here - why should we,...
Plato in the 7th book of his Politeia draws this amazing allegory of the cave. One of the most important in human thought. There have been a multitude of interpretations of the metaphor over the centuries. What does this allegory mean today? What does it mean to me?...
How can I bring the light of the Gospel to the contemporary world? Perhaps simply. With no big words. No clichés. No fences and walls cutting me off from the others. No manipulations. Just care for the other person. Every person, regardless of their ethnicity, gender,...
What is the Church as the body today? What is the Body of Christ at the beginning of the 21st century? The apostle Paul in his letters many times refers to the metaphor of the body mainly with the reference to the church, in its local or general dimension. In the...
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher today is generally recognized as the founder of modern Protestant theology, one of the giants besides Melanchton, Calvin, Harnack, and Barth. He is called the father of contemporary hermeneutics and liberal theology. He has also...
It is almost 80 years after the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the great theologians born in my town, Wrocław/Breslau. He's one of the most significant theologians of the 20th century. Sometimes he's put together with Barth, Brunner, Bultmann, Paul Tillich,...
One of the more significant movements in missions over the past century has been the growth of movements of house churches. There are several recent works about house churches in Asia, Africa, and North America. However, there seems to be extraordinarily little...
The first modern North American missionaries began to arrive in the late 1970s, with the majority moving into Poland after the fall of communism in 1989. My goal was to analyze the strategies and methods of North American mission agencies in relationship to the...