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Vol. 83 (1995): Our Past

Articles

God, Satan and Man in the Book of Henryków

  • Marek Cetwiński
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.1995.83.77-91  [Google Scholar]
Published: 1995-06-30

Abstract

Not only was Abbot Piotr, the author of the first part of the Foundation Book of the Henryków Abbey, well acquainted with scholastic terminology, his narrative also takes the shape of an exemplification of a lecture on scholastic philosophy. In his view, man is only an instrument in God's hand. Unlike the anonymous author of the second part of the Book of Foundations of the Henryków Abbey, Peter never mentions Satan. However, for the second writer, the world is primarily a scene of God's fight against Satan: the monks are compared to the Israelites taking over the Promised Land, while their (secular) neighbors are cast as Amorites and "workers of iniquity in the Land of Israel." While the first part of the Book is more philosophical, the second part strikes a clear note of the Old Testament.

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