INTERFACULTY INSTITUTE
OF ECUMENISM AND DIALOGUE (MIED)
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow

Address
ul. Franciszkańska 1, PL-31-004 Kraków
tel/fax 0048-12-430-07-50
e-mail: mied@upjp2.edu.pl

Director
Fr Prof. Dr Hab. Łukasz KAMYKOWSKI
Reception Hour
Wednesday
11.15 - 12.15
Vice Director
Dr Marek KITA
Reception Hour
Tuesday
13.00 - 14.00

Secretariat
Violetta REDER, Maria PONIEWIERSKA
Reception Hours:
Tuesday 9.00 - 11.00
Wednesday 10.00 - 12.00
Thursday 10.00 - 12.00

The Institute was established by the Senate of the Ponitifical Academy of Theology in Kraków on October 18th, 1993. The aim of the Institute is to make the Academy practically more open to dialogue - ecumenical, interreligious and with all people of good will, within the range proper for a higher pontifical school, which is postulated by the Magisterium of the Church.
Besides giving scholarly circles from beyond the Roman Catholic Church access to the fruits of the Academy's activity, the Institute also creates conditions for a proper course of studies for persons from other Christian Churches and religious communities or confessing other outlooks while willing to study Catholic theology within the Academy, history of the Church or Christian philosophy.

FORMS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE INSTITUTE
In order to achieve its aims, the Institute:
- organizes lectures, classes, meetings, sessions;
- educates students of the Academy as regards issues concerning ecumenism and dialogue of the Church with the world;
- provides tutorship for students from other Churches studying at the Academy as far as it is required by their specificity;
- publishes books concerning ecumenism and dialogue (the series: "Ecumenism and Dialogue Library").
The Institute stays in continuous cooperation with the Kraków Section of the Polish Ecumenical Council, the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim (Auschwitz) and the Institute of Slavic Philology at the Jagellonian University.
In the Kraków Diocese, the Institute is a co-organizer of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and organizer of the yearly Day of Judaism and Day of Islam.
We cooperate with German and American university centres in organizing international interreligious seminaries for students devoted to problems of Christian-Jewish dialogue.

STRUCTURE OF MIED
Within the range of its Statute aims, the Institute coordinates work of the following chairs of the Theological Faculty of the Pontifical University of john Paul II in Cracow: Chair of Christology, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism and Missiology.

CHAIRS OF CHRISTOLOGY:
- Fr Prof. Dr hab. Łukasz Kamykowski
- Fr Dr hab. Tadeusz Dzidek
- Dr Marek Kita
- Dr Piotr Sikora
CHAIR OF ECCLESIOLOGY:
- Fr Prof. PAT Dr hab. Andrzej Napiórkowski OSPPE
- Fr Dr Józef Morawa
- Fr Dr Piotr Chojnacki OCist
CHAIR OF ECUMENISM:
- Fr Prof. Dr hab. Zdzisław Kijas OFMConv
- Fr Dr hab. Tadeusz Kałużny SCJ
CHAIR OF MISSIOLOGY:
- Fr Dr Andrzej Dobrzyński
Constantly cooperating:
- Fr Dr Manfred Deselaers - Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oświęcim (Auschwitz)

PRINCIPLES OF ENLISTING FOR STUDIES
Within the range of its specialization, the Institute delivers lectures and classes for students of the basic course and of the two-grade doctoral studies; the lectures are accessible to students of all the faculties of the Academy.
The Institute also takes care of students from beyond the Roman Catholic Church and directs them to one of the Academy courses.
Besides the documents generally required, the candidate should present an opinion of the superior of his religious community. The programme of studies is determined by the Institute in agreement with the Faculty involved. Professional titles and scholarly degrees are conferred by the Faculty Council in accordance with the decisions of the Academy Statute.

EDITORIAL SERIES: "ECUMENISM AND DIALOGUE LIBRARY"
EDITORIAL BODY:
Fr Jerzy Chmiel, Fr Łukasz Kamykowski (Head), Fr Zdzisław Kijas.
The series is edited by the Interfaculty Institute of Ecumenism and Dialogue of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków.
In a interdisciplinary way it deals with issues related to the dialogue of the Church with the contemporary world. It comprises both books that are fruit of creative search of the Academy staff and those which document the sessions organized by the Institute. They raise issues important for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.
Reconciliation, the value and significance of family as seen by the great world religions, problems of mixed marriages - these are some of the wide variety of subjects interesting for the contemporary multicultural society and touched upon by the series.
The variety of the subjects does not boil down only to contemporary problems. The titles like Saints and Reconciliation of the Churches or Saints in Culture and Spirituality of the Former and Contemporary Europe prove that it is also historical issues that are the focus.
Among the titles one can also find monographs of specific theological issues, but addressed to a wider circle of readers (Islam and Christianity, The Whole Israel, Justification of the Sinner).
In the course of the 15 years' existence of the Institute and of the Series, almost thirty books were published.
Order a book:
Wydawnictwo Naukowe UPJPII
ul. Franciszkańska 1, 31-004 Kraków
tel./fax. + 48 12 422 60 40
e-mail: wydawnictwo@upjp2.edu.pl

So far the following positions have been issued in the Series:
1. Zaborski A. (ed.), Islam i chrześcijaństwo (Islam and Christianity), Kraków 1995.
2. Kamykowski Ł. ks., Cały Izrael (The Whole Israel), Kraków 1996.
3. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Rodzina w wielkich religiach świata (Family in the Great Religions of the World ), Kraków 1999.
4. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Święci a pojednanie narodów (Saints - and Reconciliation of Peoples), Kraków 1998.
5. Napiórkowski A. OSPPE, Usprawiedliwienie grzesznika (Justification of the Sinner), Kraków 1998.
6. Gierowski J. (ed.), Tempus PHARE. The Final Conference of the Mobility for the Study of Religious Interaction: Christianity - Judaism - Islam. Kraków 1998.
7. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Pojednanie początkiem nowego życia (Reconciliation as a Beginning of New Life), Kraków 1999.
8. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv, Przebóstwienie człowieka i wiata (Deification of Man and the World), Kraków 1999.
9. Stępniak-Minczewa W., Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.). Święci w kulturze i duchowości dawnej i współczesnej Europy (Saints in the Culture and Spirituality of the Former and Contemporary Europe), Kraków 1999.
10. Lach S., Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Buddyzm i hinduizm w wypowiedziach i nauczaniu Jana Pawła II (Buddhism and Hinduism in the Speeches and Teaching of John Paul II), Kraków 2000.
11. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Zbawienie w Roku Jubileuszowym (Salvation in the Jubilee Year), Kraków 2000.
12. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Małżeństwa mieszane (Mixed Marriages), Kraków 2000.
13. Stępniak-Minczewa W., Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Święci i świętość u korzeni tworzenia się kultury narodów słowiańskich (Saints and Sanctity at the Foundations of the Culture of Slavic Peoples), vol. 1-2, Kraków 2000.
14. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Czas i kaledarz (Time and Calendar), Kraków 2001.
15. Stępniak-Minczewa W., Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.), Klasztory i kultura krajów słowiańskich (Cloisters and the Culture of Slavic Countries), Kraków 2001.
16. Bielawska S., Kondycja człowieka w filmach Michelangelo Antonioniego (Human condition in the Films by Michelangelo Antonioni), Kraków 2002.
17. Stępniak-Minczewa W., Kijas Z.J. OFMConv (ed.)., Rola klasztorów w procesie kształtowania się państwowości krajów słowiańskich (Role of Cloisters in the Shaping of Slavic Countries' Statehood), Kraków 2002.
18. Kijas Z.J. OFMConv, Krzywda J. CM (ed.), Sakramentalność małżeństwa (Sacramental Character of Marriage), Kraków 2002.
19. Kamykowski Ł., Pojęcie dialogu w Kościele katolickim (Notion of Dialogue in the Catholic Church), Kraków 2003.
20. Dzidek T. (ed.), Eklezjalny wymiar poznania teologicznego (Ecclesiological Dimension of Theological Cognition) , Kraków 2003.
21. Gogol M., Rozważania o Boskiej Liturgii (Meditations on the Divine Liturgy), Kraków 2004.
22. Adamska A., Teologia piękna na przykładzie ikon Andreja Rublowa (Theology of Beauty as Exemplified by Icons by Andrej Rublow), Kraków 2003.
23. Nowakowski P. CM, Problematyka liturgiczna w międzywyznaniowej polemice po Unii Brzeskiej (1596-1720) [Liturgical Issues in the Iinternational Polemics after the Brzesko Union (1596-1720)], Kraków 2004.
24. Kamykowski Ł., Rabsztyn K., Winiarska M. (ed.), II Krakowskie Spotkanie Ekumeniczne. "Abyśmy byli jedno" (II Ecumenical Kraków Encounter. "So that We May Be One"), Kraków 2004.
25. Kamykowski Ł., Kijas Z. (eds), Rola placówek naukowych w dialogu ekumenicznym, Role of Scholarly Centres in Ecumenical Dialogue, Kraków 2004.
26. Georgiewa-Okoń J., Stradomski J. (eds), Klasztorne ośrodki piśmiennictwa i kultury w krajach słowiańskich, Monastic Centres of Literature and Culture in Slavic Countries, Kraków 2005.
27. Kamykowski Ł., Kijas Z. (eds), Księgi święte a słowo Boże, Sacred Books and the Word of God, Kraków 2005.
28. Kamykowski Ł. (ed), Sekularyzacja a ewangelizacja, Secularization and Evangelization, Kraków 2006.
29. Dzidek T., Kamykowski Ł. (eds), Kondycja człowieka, The Human Condition, Kraków 2007.