The nation in the work of Rev. Prof. Czesław Stanisław Bartnik

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the nation in the work of Rev. Prof. Czesław Stanisław Bartnik. The Reverend Professor linked his teaching and research activities with the Faculty of Theology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He left a huge scientific output in the form of 120 scientific monographs and about 3,000 articles. He died on March 21, 2020 at the age of 91. He was the creator of universalist personalism. This article begins with an analysis of the concept of nation. Professor Bartnik undertook to create his own, very precise definition. In the second part of the article, Father Bartnik undertook a scientific reflection on the concepts of the nation and nationalism and differentiated them. In his concept of the theology of the nation, he rejected any kind of nationalism. The original element of the article is the presentation of the personalistic concept of the nation as perceived by Professor Czesław Stanisław Bartnik. A very important part of the article is the problem of the nation in the context of morality and religiosity. According to Professor, the healthy tissue of the nation is shaped on the basis of morality and religiosity. The whole article ends with the conclusion – towards the theology of the nation. Professor placed the issues of the nation very firmly in the space of the theology of the nation. Thus, the coclusion is a coherent synthesis.