Wojciech Kosek

Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawla II · Faculty of Theology - Wydział Teologiczny

The article provides detailed analyses and juxtapositions of St. Paul's teaching and shows that his admiration for God's unspeakable gift (2Cor 9:15) concerns the essential reality for the Church-the exchange of gifts not only material but, above all, spiritual among the members of the Church as the Body of Christ. The paper shows that man graduall...

This paper is a translation of the article: Wojciech Kosek, Typologia zanurzenia w Mojżesza / zanurzenia w Chrystusa (1 Kor 10, 1-2) jako źródło nauczania św. Pawła o Eucharystii. It will be published soon in 2021 year by Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie [The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow] in Księga Pamiątkowa dla Ksi...

The purpose of this article is to present the biblical proof that purgatory exists, that is, to show the ways in which the Bible presents the reality that is hidden from the eyes of those who live on earth. The key research assumption here is not rejecting the biblical images with which God spoke the truth in the language of the old generations of...

To answer the title question of this article – Why does the Last Supper in the Gospel of St. John (13-17) contain no words of consecration? – one will mainly show that the Gospel of St. John has a six-element literary structure, the same as the Book of Exodus 1-18 has. This first step bases on the analyses of many exegetes and also on the particula...

This paper is a translation into English of the article: W. KOSEK, Zawarcie przymierza w Wj 1-18 na tle zwyczajów Bliskiego Wschodu, [in:] T. JELONEK, R. BOGACZ, Między Biblią a kulturą, I [Between the Bible and Culture, I], Krakow 2011, pp. 9-32. Abstract. This paper describes a 6-element structure of an ancient Hittite covenant treaty in light of...

This paper is the English translation of the Review Report written by Rev. Professor Dr. hab. Bogdan Poniży, Head of the Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, December 6, 2007. Translation by Wojciech Kosek. The review concerns the dissertation of mgr lic. Wojciech Kosek, “The Original rite of the...

This article aims to show the inner logic of this special liturgy the Passover is. God himself inscribed the logic of the Passover, through inspired authors, of whom Moses played an essential role, into the literary structure according to which the first eighteen chapters of the Book of Exodus were composed. The logic of the Passover was simultaneo...

This paper is the translation of the article W. Kosek, Nakaz głoszenia śmierci Pana «aż przyjdzie» (1Kor 11,26) w świetle porównawczej analizy gramatycznej, in the book: W. Chrostowski (ed.), Jak śmierć potężna jest miłość. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Księdza Profesora Juliana Warzechy SAC (1944-2009) [Love is as strong as death. A commemorative book...

The present paper is a translation of the third part of the third chapter of the dissertation; it shows three main questions. The first part crowns the research effort leading to understanding the literary structure of Passover Seder deeply. Namely, Seder, just like the Book of Exodus, has the literary structure of ancient treaties; they both docum...

In detailed lexical and grammatical analyses, the present article proves that a correct understanding of the statement of St. Paul in 1Cor 12:3 is as follows: Just as “there is no idol in the world, and there is no God but one” (1Cor 8:4), so also the spirit of no god (from among so-called gods – cf. 1Cor 8:5; 2Cor 11:4) will reveal the fullness o...

This article is translation to English of the article which was published first in Polish as: W. Kosek, „Łamanie Chleba” w 1 Kor 11,24 a łamanie paschalnego Afikomanu w Hagadzie na Pesach i traktacie Pesachim, w: T. Jelonek i R. Bogacz (redaktorzy), Biblia w kulturze świata. Aspekty biblijnego przesłania. Część pierwsza, Kraków 2012, s. 17-63. Summ...

Based on the Bible and numerous Greek writers’ works, one will prove that the ancient world nations, both Jewish and Gentile, had many identical cultural practices relating to war times. The custom to offer “the anamnesis-sacrifice” before battle in order to ensure their god’s memory of the donor during the struggle makes it possible to understand...

This paper is a translation of part I of chapter III of doctoral dissertation: W. Kosek, Pierwotny ryt Paschy w świetle schematu literackiego Księgi Wyjścia 1-18 (The original rite of the Passover in the light of the literary scheme of the Book of Exodus 1-18), Kraków 2008, p. 53-198. The middle part of this chapter III has already been published -...

This paper is mainly a translation into English of the part of the doctoral thesis: W. KOSEK, Pierwotny ryt Paschy w świetle schematu literackiego Księgi Wyjścia 1-18, Kraków 2008, p. 322-357. Here is the first publication of this translation: April 18, 2019, i.e., Holy Thursday. It shows the word 'Afikoman' as a compound Hebrew term, not a Greek o...

The article describes the Mass as a celebration not primarily performed by a validly ordained priest who does so in the historical past after the Last Supper. The article shows the celebration performed by each priest as a celebration in the Upper Room, where Jesus celebrates it the night before His death at the cross at Golgotha. The man-celebrant...