Przed sklepem jubilera – między filozofią a mistyką

Agnieszka KOMOROWSKA

Zakład Literatury Polskiej Romantyzmu i Pozytywizmu, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland , Polska

Abstrakt

The article begins with a review of various possible and already functioning interpretations of Karol Wojtyła’s work The Jeweler’s Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony Passing on Occasion into a Drama, in order to introduce a new, both anthropological and mystical reading of the work, with the commentary, however, upon the use of the notion of mysticism, as well as in the light of the anthropology advanced by Wojtyła as philosopher. The paper presents an attempt at a reading of Wojtyła’s early work, dating from 1960, in the context of John Paul II’s catechetical teaching from circa 1978, comprised in a cycle Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. That being so, there has been outlined an astounding unity of thought, and even words, making up the Author’s own dictionary on the subject of human love. Thus the interpretation of the three parts of the drama is elaborated in the context of three states of humanity: the one of pre-historical innocence, the one of historical man after the original sin, and the one of Redemption. Each of the three married couples the Author describes in the subsequent parts of the drama reflects humanity on the respective stage. Accordingly, alongside the main characters, there go others who escape merely human categories: the Jeweler, the Bridegroom, Adam (and Somebody – an episodic character, but also one of great importance in terms of the moment and way of emergence). A separate part of the article is dedicated to the above-mentioned characters owing to their role in revealing the mystical perspective in the interpretation of the drama. Ultimately, man shown from his interior, although with every hallmark of his bodily experience, is depicted in Wojtyła’s work in a Trinitarian reality, i.e. the way of existence of the Triune God himself – the Communion of Persons. What is the most human turns out to be the most profoundly, mystically, united with the spiritual reality.

Słowa kluczowe:

dramaturgy of the inner self, adequate anthropology, theology of the body, Christian mysticism, meditativeness, innocence, the fall of man, freedom, being, love, marriage, spirituality, the Triune God, the Book of Genesis