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The Main Burdens of Doing Business Perceived by Family-Owned Hospitality Enterprises in Slovakia

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Šmardová Ľ. , Elexa Ľ.

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation

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2013

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tom 9

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nr 1

97-118

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The main aim of the article is to identify the main burdens of doing business perceived by Slovak family owned hospitality businesses as well as to assess their view on the prospects for family businesses in Slovakia. The article analyzes primary data gained from an opinion survey conducted by means of a questionnaire in 2013. The business environment perception is evaluated according to the perception of certain external business environment indicators (conditions of doing business) depicted on the basis of the results of the pilot survey conducted in 2009 and the research carried out in 2010/2011. The results allowed us to identify the most discussed topics and burdens of doing business in tourism and hospitality in Slovakia.

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Sport and Philosophy of Hospitality: Three Questions on How to Rethink Contemporary Sport Education in Light of Gift and Peace

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Isidori E. , Echazarreta R. R.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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2013

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tom 59

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nr 1

5-10

EN

The ancient Olympic Games were held in spaces and places consecrated for hospitality, to xénia, a Greek word that means “gifts” but also something that refers to and belongs to strangers and foreigners. Foreigners from every part of Greece met in Olympia to celebrate the agón. In this place, a stranger or a foreigner (hostis in Latin), probably a former enemy, became a friend because he was both guest and host (hospes in Latin) in the sanctuary-town, which belonged to the gods and to all of the Greeks, who recognized themselves in its spirit. This mechanism of hospitality formed the basis of the Olympic peace system and was the fundamental prerequisite for the celebration of agón. The practice of the agón was therefore made possible by a “gift” but also by “for-giveness” that allowed people to meet and compete. We can conclude that at the base of the Olympic (and Greek) ethics there was the concept of hospitality. Olympia was then the common home of all Greeks, the place where ethics were carried out, were put into practice, and concretely exercised. It is not a pure coincidence that the Greek word “ethics” is linked to the word éthos, which means “house”, “home”. For this reason, ethics can be thought as the art of hosting somebody in our own home and trusting him/her, just as it happened in ancient Olympia during the Olympic Games, which demonstrated that ethics was always a home’s ethics. Therefore, taking into account this cultural and philosophical framework, this study will develop a methodological approach, derived from deconstructionism, which will be applied to concepts that are both ambiguous and semantically rich in meaning, such as “gift”, “forgiveness”, xénos, hostis, and hospes. The first objective of this study is to reflect upon the connection between “gift” and “sport” and show the deep interconnection between the two concepts. The second is to use the model of Greek hospitality at the Olympic Games to deeply rethink sport and contemporary philosophy of sport education in terms of peace and multiculturalism.

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Europejskie i polskie hotelarstwo w dobie kryzysu europejskiego

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Szydłowska K.

Nauki o Zarządzaniu

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2013

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nr 3(16)

119-132

EN

The paper tries to assess the actions of European and Polish hospitality business in the times of economic slowdown. The article bases on the discussion referrig to the economic conditions of hospitality business during the recession caused by the crisis on the American subprime market and European debt crisis. The aim of the work is to show tactics, methods and ways which managers of hotels used to counteract the results of economic slowdown influencing clients’ expenses and their financial decisions. Apart from discussing these techniques (co-branding, personalization, loyalty programs) the author also discussed the actions which in retrospect turned out to be wrong decisions of managers (for example lowering the prices at the expense of retrenchment on guests’ satisfaction or branding). The conclusions are an attempt of assessment of actions of European and Polish hoteliers taken at the time of recession.

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Między gościnnością a misoksenią – reperkusje kryzysu migracyjnego w Polsce

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Cekiera R.

Political Preferences

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2017

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nr 17

237-250

EN

Refugee crisis is a major challenge for the whole of Europe the humanitarian, social and political. It affects individual societies both in a direct way, when growth in the number of visitors exceeds the adaptability, and indirectly, through its multidimensional social consequences. In Poland, the refugee crisis can defined as the phantom. Despite the trace number of refugees and the slight number of immigrants, the problem and the way the debate over it cause very significant social repercussions. These repercussions manifest themselves in changes in attitudes with respect to refugees or a more widely-foreign, clearly materialised in the research.

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Sport and Philosophy of Hospitality: Three Questions on How to Rethink Contemporary Sport Education in Light of Gift and Peace

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Isidori E. , Echazarreta R. R.

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nr 1

5-10

EN

The ancient Olympic Games were held in spaces and places consecrated for hospitality, to xénia, a Greek word that means “gifts” but also something that refers to and belongs to strangers and foreigners. Foreigners from every part of Greece met in Olympia to celebrate the agón. In this place, a stranger or a foreigner (hostis in Latin), probably a former enemy, became a friend because he was both guest and host (hospes in Latin) in the sanctuary-town, which belonged to the gods and to all of the Greeks, who recognized themselves in its spirit. This mechanism of hospitality formed the basis of the Olympic peace system and was the fundamental prerequisite for the celebration of agón. The practice of the agón was therefore made possible by a “gift” but also by “for-giveness” that allowed people to meet and compete. We can conclude that at the base of the Olympic (and Greek) ethics there was the concept of hospitality. Olympia was then the common home of all Greeks, the place where ethics were carried out, were put into practice, and concretely exercised. It is not a pure coincidence that the Greek word “ethics” is linked to the word éthos, which means “house”, “home”. For this reason, ethics can be thought as the art of hosting somebody in our own home and trusting him/her, just as it happened in ancient Olympia during the Olympic Games, which demonstrated that ethics was always a home’s ethics. Therefore, taking into account this cultural and philosophical framework, this study will develop a methodological approach, derived from deconstructionism, which will be applied to concepts that are both ambiguous and semantically rich in meaning, such as “gift”, “forgiveness”, xénos, hostis, and hospes. The first objective of this study is to reflect upon the connection between “gift” and “sport” and show the deep interconnection between the two concepts. The second is to use the model of Greek hospitality at the Olympic Games to deeply rethink sport and contemporary philosophy of sport education in terms of peace and multiculturalism.

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Communality and the Individual in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

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Tazbir J. , University of Łódź , Jędrzej Tazbir has defended his BA and MA theses at the University of Łódź. The broadly considered English-language prose represents his main field of interest and scholarly work w. t. e. o. t. A. n. b. f. t. m. e. I. r. a. a. l. t. h. i. i. t. s. f. p. a. p. t. A. i. i. t.

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nr 1

EN

The subject of the article is the analysis of the notion of communality in the relation between the two protagonists of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Traversing the post-apocalyptic landscape populated mostly by wretched savages harbouring ill intent towards other human beings, the heroes ostensibly seek a place where establishing a sustainable society composed of the “good guys” can still be possible. However, while for the young son this goal implies the necessity of maintaining a sense of openness and hospitality towards the other, for the father it is the matter of day-to-day survival that takes precedence, which leads to repeated instances of withdrawing help from destitute survivors and avoiding human contact. The boy objects to this behavior, despite being wholly dependent on his father, as his sense of responsibility seems innate and unconditional. The man, on the other hand, gradually recognizes that he was so profoundly afflicted by the experience of losing his world that he cannot overcome his radical pessimism and distrust of the other. Therefore, when the man arrives at the end of his life, he comes to understand that it is only without him at his side that the son can enter a larger community.

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European borders and identity from the new materialist approach

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Nikiforova B.

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tom 27 cz. 1

EN

The article deals with the concept of “new materialism“ and tries to explain “how discourses come to matter” and “how matter comes to discourses” [Barad 2003, 2007]. Borders and border regions are particularly revealing places for social research, especially in the present era of growing globalization, growth of the EU and mass immigration. Two opposite, reciprocal processes are open for investigation on the European territory: disappearance and strengthening of borders. Analyses of the Derridian concept of “unconditional hospitality” and the new materialism discourse will provide a possibility to describe identity deconstruction. Jacques Derrida analyzed the limits of the contemporary socialpolitical concepts that have challenged European existence in the recent years. His political philosophy concentrates on what happens when people, excluded from any system of politics or law, present themselves and ask for refuge or justice. After the long years of “deterritorialization”, today we observe such tendency as the process of re-territorialization. The author examines the public European discourse on religion, civilization and race belonging as a mark of European identity deconstruction.

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A door to the unknown: crossing boundaries through picturebook art

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Smyczyńska K.

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji

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2016

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tom 12

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nr 3(34)

69-83

EN

This paper engages with the question of the ethical implications of, and artistic imagination in picturebooks. The analysis relies on two visual narratives confronting the theme of cultural difference. The juxtaposition of the two books that share the themes of visiting and hosting, of confronting otherness, and of cultural prejudice indicates differences in their narrative and artistic potential. The analysis of formal strategies in Jemmy Button by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali and in Eric by Shaun Tan serves to point out the role of artistic imagination and narrative wisdom in creating visual literature

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Zarys rozwoju opieki paliatywnej z uwzględnieniem dokonań rodzimych

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Pietrzyńska T. , Podwińska E. , Olejek A. , Zamłyński J.

Ginekologia Onkologiczna

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2009

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tom 7

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nr 2

138-142

EN

Since the dawn of time, care for terminally ill people was considered a challenge, a duty or an obligation. The Latin word hospes meant initially a hospitable person providing shelter and food for those in need. Places where most severely ill people were cared for were called hospitale, hospitium or infirmarium. In ancient Greece and Rome, chronically ill people were placed in special rooms, usually adjacent to temples. Throughout the entire Western Empire, the poor and the ill were cared for by religious congregations. Monasteries ran “hospitable rooms” providing shelter not only for pilgrims, but also for ill people, who could also benefit from simple medical procedures. Numerous pilgrimages, epidemics, wars and crusades, resulted in rapid increase of number of hospitals and shelters in Medieval Europe. Homes of care designed exclusively for the terminally ill appeared in the XIX century. The essence of their mission was compassion for suffering and pain experienced by other people, expressed by will to help, resulting also from religious motives. In the XX century, Cecily Saunders M.D. organized the first St. Christopher Stationary Hospice in London, thereby giving rise to modern hospice organizations. Later, the Hospice expanded its activity on home-based patient care and support of families after loss of the loved ones. In the ‘70s of the XX century, the term “palliative care” has been introduced in the USA and Canada. The Latin word pallium, meaning a large woollen coat, has been adopted to denote protection of patients and their relatives from physical and mental suffering. Nevertheless, definition of palliative care has been developed as late as 1990 and has been published in a WHO document. It specifies the basic mission of this medical specialty: comprehensive and active care for terminally ill people, whose disease does not respond to cause-oriented treatment. Palliative treatment encompasses relief of pain and other ailments, as well as overall support in mental, spiritual and social areas. The essence of palliative care is team work of persons representing various specialties - doctors, nurses, priests, psychologists, physiotherapists, non-medical volunteers, aiming at improving the patients’ quality of life.

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Od zarania dziejów opieka nad chorymi i umierającymi stanowiła wyzwanie, powinność lub obowiązek. Łacińskie słowo hospes początkowo oznaczało osobę udzielającą gościny. Miejsca opieki nad najciężej chorymi określano mianem hospitale, hospitium lub infirmarium. W starożytnej Grecji i Rzymie budowano pokoje dla przewlekle chorych, umiejscowione zazwyczaj w pobliżu świątyń. Na terenach dawnego Cesarstwa Zachodniego opiekę nad ubogimi i chorymi sprawowały zgromadzenia zakonne. W przyklasztornych „izbach gościnnych” przyjmowano nie tylko pielgrzymów, ale i chorych, u których wykonywano proste zabiegi lecznicze. Liczne pielgrzymki, a także epidemie, wojny i krucjaty spowodowały szybki wzrost liczby szpitali i przytułków w średniowiecznej Europie. Domy opieki przeznaczone wyłącznie dla umierających zaczęły powstawać w XIX wieku. Celem ich działalności było zrozumienie cierpienia i bólu drugiego człowieka wyrażone poprzez chęć niesienia pomocy, wynikającą także z pobudek religijnych. W XX wieku z inicjatywy doktor Cecily Saunders powstało w Londynie Stacjonarne Hospicjum św. Krzysztofa, co dało początek nowożytnemu ruchowi hospicyjnemu. Wkrótce działalność Hospicjum została poszerzona o pomoc domową oraz wsparcie dla rodzin, które utraciły najbliższych. W latach 70. XX wieku w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Kanadzie upowszechnił się termin „opieka paliatywna”. Określenie palium (łac. pallium - rodzaj szerokiego, greckiego płaszcza) oznaczało ochronę chorego i jego bliskich przed cierpieniem zarówno cielesnym, jak i duchowym. Definicja opieki paliatywnej powstała dopiero w 1990 roku, opublikowano ją w dokumencie wydanym przez Światową Organizację Zdrowia (WHO), według którego zasadniczym zadaniem tej dziedziny jest całościowa, czynna opieka nad cierpiącymi, których choroba nie poddaje się skutecznemu leczeniu przyczynowemu. Obejmuje zwalczanie bólu i innych dolegliwości oraz pomoc w problemach psychicznych, duchowych i socjalnych. Istotą opieki paliatywnej jest wspólna praca ludzi różnych specjalności: lekarzy, pielęgniarek, kapłanów, psychologów, fizykoterapeutów, wolontariuszy nieme-dycznych oraz ich dążenie do poprawy jakości życia chorych.

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Sommelier jako nowa profesja w polskiej branży hotelarsko-gastronomicznej

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Sidorkiewicz M.

Rozprawy Naukowe Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu

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2014

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tom 46

178-184

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The growing level of education and the changing lifestyle of tourists influence the increasingly sophisticated consumer tastes. Thus, in all kinds of tourist service centres, such as hotels and restaurants, there is a need to employ people with high qualifications. One of the jobs in the hospitality industry which is still not a standard in Poland but which begins to grow is the profession of a sommelier. This is a person working in the field of catering whose duties consist in the care of wine. The position, in the context of the hospitality market, refers to hotels and gastronomic objects. The aim of the paper is to present the sommelier profession and the national context for its development. In addition, an attempt is made to estimate the size of employment in the profession in Poland. The article consists of three substantive parts, allowing to characterize the sommelier profession, to indicate the development conditions for the sommelier profession in Poland, and to describe sommeliers in the Polish hospitality industry in terms of quantity and quality.

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Antropolog, czyli gość. O badaniach terenowych Bronisława Malinowskiego jako formie kontaktu

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Pisarek A.

Laboratorium Kultury

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2013

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tom 2

60-90

PL

Artykuł wpisuje się w myślenie o antropologicznej rzeczywistości terenowej w jej interakcyjnym charakterze ustrukturowanym m.in. przez kształt kontaktu kulturowego. Zestawienie wiedzy zawartej w Dziełach Bronisława Malinowskiego ze szczegółowymi informacjami z dzienników, notatek terenowych i listów pozwoliło na opisanie zarówno wzoru idealnego, jak i zbliżenie się do wzoru rzeczywistego relacji, jaka wykształciła się między antropologiem a tubylcami. Pytanie tylko, w jaki sposób konfrontacja kilku systemów praktyk i wyobrażeń wpłynęła na proces badawczy i kształt antropologicznej wiedzy? Wychodząc od analizy tendencji współczesnej antropologii do dyskursywizacji problematyki spotkania, autor stara się prześledzić różne aspekty antropologicznego kontaktu kulturowego Bronisława Malinowskiego z Massimami, co ma pomóc we wskazaniu najważniejszych kulturowych i historycznych uwarunkowań kształtu relacji pomiędzy antropologiem a „jego ludem”.

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The article fits into thinking about the fieldwork’s reality in its interactive nature, structured by, among others, the form of the cultural contact. Bringing together the knowledge collected in Bronisław Malinowski’s Dzieła and detailed information gathered in diaries, fieldwork notes and letters, allows to perform a reconstruction of an ideal pattern, approximate to real pattern, of the relation which was born between the anthropologist and the natives. The question is, how did the confrontation of multiple systems of praxis and beliefs affect the research and nature of anthropological knowledge? Beginning with the analysis of the meeting subject discourse present in modern anthropology, the author tires to investigate various aspects of Bronislaw Malinowski fieldwork. He attempts to construct an analysis which would pinpoint cultural and historical conditionings of the nature of relation between the anthropologist and “his people”.

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Wpływ innowacyjności na konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstw usługowych – hoteli

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Sztorc M.

Zeszyty Naukowe ZPSB Firma i Rynek

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2015

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nr 1(48)

117-143

PL

Aktualnie innowacje pełnią ważną rolę w procesie rozwoju społeczno – gospodarczego. W wyniku zachodzącego procesu globalizacji, zwiększają się oczekiwania nabywców oraz zaostrza konkurencja. Organizacje usługowe chcące pozostać na rynku, zorientowane na rozwój zobligowane są do ustawicznej aktywności innowacyjnej. Implementowane przez przedsiębiorstwa usługowe – hotele strategie innowacyjne dostarczają im szeregu korzyści m.in. poprzez wprowadzenie nowych usług na globalny rynek, zastosowanie nowej technologii przy świadczeniu usług, czy podążanie za wysokimi wymaganiami nabywców. Wprowadzenie innowacji w przedsiębiorstwach świadczących usługi hotelarskie należy do złożonych i wieloaspektowych działań. Albowiem proces ten nie polega wyłącznie na modyfikacji produktu. Celem artykułu jest analiza koncepcji innowacyjności jako czynnika stanowiącego o konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstw usługowych na przykładzie hoteli.

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Currently innovation play an important role in the socio - economic development. As a result of the ongoing process of globalization, increasing customers expectations and strengthen competition. Service organizations wishing to remain on the market-oriented development are required to continual innovation activity. Implemented by service companies - Hotels innovative strategies to provide them with a range of benefits including through the introduction of new services on the global market, the use of new technology in the provision of services, or to follow the high demands of buyers. The introduction of innovation in enterprises providing hotel services belongs to the complex and multi-faceted. For this process is not simply a modification of the product. The aim of the article is analyze to the concept of innovation as a factor constituting the competitiveness of service companies for example hotels.

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Retrieving the Mystical Dimension in Ecumenism

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Berry J. A.

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tom 64

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nr 7: Teologia ekumeniczna

137-156

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In our present times, a search for widespread certainty over a sound understanding of ecumenism must be acknowledged. While questions on the vision for communion among the Christian churches or on the commitment to witness and to social justice are more than justified, the appeal to “turn to God” reverberates strongly throughout the witness of (ecumenical) prophets today as it did in the past. Although a real process of entering into spiritual communion with one another takes time to happen until it becomes real and visible, ecumenism must continually start afresh from God. Ecumenism is above all God’s will that “all may be one” (John 17:21). All human efforts in the ecumenical movement are to find their origin and inspiration from God alone. The aim of this paper is a modest one. It seeks to place all ecumenical discourse in the light of the mystery of God who is the source of communion. In this light, recent discourse on reception, recognition, and spirituality should be grounded in God’s very nature and call to become one in him. This article features four main steps: 1. to contextualise the quest for Christian unity in postmodern times, 2. to emphasise the necessity of a relationship between ecumenism and Christian mysticism, 3. to learn from central concepts of the mysticism of the Church Fathers, and 4. to reconfigure ecumenism on prayer, trust and hospitality.

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Dla adekwatnego obrazu dzisiejszego ekumenizmu należy przyjąć fakt szeroko rozpowszechnionej niepewności. Chociaż kwestie poszukiwania wspólnoty między Kościołami chrześcijańskimi czy też zobowiązania do świadectwa i do sprawiedliwości społecznej są bardziej niż uzasadnione, wołanie o „zwrócenie się do Boga” odbija się mocno w świadectwie proroków (ekumenicznych) dzisiaj, tak jak to było w przeszłości. Podczas gdy proces wchodzenia w duchową wspólnotę z innymi wymaga czasu, aż stanie się ona rzeczywista i widzialna, ekumenizm musi zacząć swą odnowę od Boga. Jest przede wszystkim Bożą wolą, aby „wszyscy byli jedno” (J 17,21). Wszystkie wysiłki podejmowane w ruchu ekumenicznym muszą znajdować swój początek i inspirację jedynie w Bogu. Cel artykułu jest nakreślony umiarkowanie. Chociaż istotne jest rozważanie zagadnień ekumenicznych, równie konieczne jest umiejscowienie wszystkich tych rozważań w świetle Boga jako źródła ekumenizmu. Powinien być to motyw przewodni artykułu. W recepcji, uznaniu i duchowości jest coś więcej. Artykuł przedstawia trzy główne kroki: 1. kontekstualizację poszukiwania jedności chrześcijan w epoce postnowoczesnej, 2. podkreślenie konieczności zależności między ekumenizmem i mistycyzmem chrześcijańskim, 3. uczenie się z kluczowych koncepcji mistycyzmu Ojców Kościoła, 4. zwrócenie ekumenizmu ku modlitwie, zawierzeniu i gościnności.