Byt przygodny, czyli dialog rozumiany analogicznie w tomikach wierszy ks. Jana Wala

Abstrakt

Father Professor Jan Wal (1942–2023) became known as an expert and lecturer in pastoral theology and sociology of religion (e.g. UPJPII in Kraków), a clergyman open to the needs of the faithful, a teacher of young academics, but also a talented poet. The volumes of poems published by the Czuwajmy publishing house near Krakow in 2013–2014 are proof of the artist’s sensitivity and the power of his words. Although he had been reading literature all his life, it was only after the age of 70 that he decided to publish a kind of pentateuch, i.e. over 500 works constituting a guide to his spiritual development and dialogical conclusions. He collected them into volumes, each of which he carefully considered and arranged, also providing a Foreword, Afterword and Information. The collected poems are also an invitation to conversation and reflection among readers, who can look into the private world of a priest conducting a “dialogue understood analogically”, i.e. one in which attention is drawn not to the form, but to the content subordinated to it.