Chrześcijanin i kultura: w kręgu personalistycznej myśli Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

Abstract

The article’s subject discusses Stefan Wyszyński’s personalist concept of Christians’ involvement in culture. In this context, the author’s attention was drawn to how the extent to which personalist’s main assumptions may constitute the basis for shaping culture, especially regarding contemporary (post)-modern cultural reality? The analysis of culture carried out in the above article presents the discussed issues in terms of a calling addressed to every human being. Placing it with the “realities of earthly life” emphasizes that in creative cultural activity, one should see the proper way of realizing the fullness of the human personality in the temporal and supernatural dimensions. Moreover, highlighting such elements as the human person, family, Nation, state, the international community, culture, economy, and politics understood in an integral way, as well as the Church proclaiming the universal message of salvation, the personalist concept of culture displays a praxeological character, rooted in a particular human existence and oriented towards the creative-saving dimension of human life. Therefore, it allows not only the explicit inclusion of the human person in the current of civilization-cultural changes but also admits a person to discover the right place in the dynamically transforming realities of the modern world.