ŚLĄSKIE STUDIA HISTORYCZNO-TEOLOGICZNE

The Way of Entrusting of Jacek Krawczyk (1966–1991)
Jacek Krawczyk (1966-1991), studying theology for the laity at the Catholic University of Lublin, achieved perfection in his life of faith, hope and love, with all his heart being engaged in service to God and human being. He received careful religious education in his family home and through his deepened life of prayer, he found the way of his lay call to holiness, which was confirmed by his heroic love in the service of the sick and the poor. His maturity of faith and depth of trust in God have been expressed throughout the valiant endurance of a fatal illness during which, nourished by the sacraments of the Church, he remained faithful to Christ. Jacek is a model of a young, modern man who, while being sensitive to beauty and good, and having enjoyed a short life in a marriage, has consistently grown in maturity to eternity.

Rudolf Schnackenburg’s life and academic activity
The paper presents the person and the work of the world known Catholic biblist R. Schnackenburg. He was born in Katowice, grew up in Legnica and achieved theological education at the University in Wrocław. He was Wilhelm Maier’s student (qualifications for Ph.D. and assistant professor). He worked at the university in Monachium, in Dillin-gen , in Bamberg and for 25 years in Würzburg. He was a co-author of the “Würzburg biblical school”. The author of over 40 books and 160 articles. The expert in the fourth gospel and St John’s Letters and ecclesiology, Christology and the ethics of the New Testament. He took part in the edition of the New Testament Theological Commentary edited by Herder (HThKNT ), the ecumenical New Testament Catholic and Evangelical Commentary (EKK) and the biblical periodical magazine Biblische Zeitschrift. He participated in the Biblical Congress in Cracow in 1972. He belongs to those biblists who contributed to the liberation of the Catholic biblical studies from antimodernist prejudices referring to the historical and critical method and introduced it to the level that facilitates constructive dialogue with protestant exegesis. Pope Bendict XVI called him to be the most distinguished German-speaking exegetist of the 20th century.