Bibliography of the Works by S. Prof. Zofia Józefa Zdybicka

Abstract

Professor, Sister Zofia J. Zdybicka has been a head of the Philosophy of Religion Department at Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) since l973. She undertook her studies on the Department of Christian Philosophy of KUL in 1956 and continued them until 1961. In 1965 she defended her doctoral thesis on Philosophical grounds of cognizability of God according to Henri de Lubac. She became Assistant Professor in 1970 with her habilitation thesis The participation of being. A trial on understanding the relation between God and the world. She received tuition at Catholic University of Louvain (1972), Leuven (1981), and Yale University (New Haven – USA 1977/78).

In the years of 1980-1984 she was a head of Theoretical Philosophy Section. She has been a Dean of the Department of Christian Philosophy of KUL since 1990 up to the present moment. She is a member of the Research Council of John Paul II Institute and a member of Episcopal Council for Culture. She has been Mother Superior of the Centre of Lublin Order of the Ursulan Sister of the Heart of the Dying Jesus.

She is a representative of the Lublin Philosophical School, an author of the holistic interpretation of the religious fact in the sphere of classical philosophy of being, which makes philosophy of religion an independent branch of research in the system of realistic philosophy. Her interests are revolvinground the problems connected with God (participation theory, the problem of God cognition, etc.).

Apart from historical and systematic considerations she has been also conducting methodological research on the status of different types of the philosophy of religion and its relation to other religiologic disciplines. She has supervised over 1000 master thesis and many doctoral thesis.

She has been an author of more than 200 scientific publications. Her major work on the philosophy of religion was published in English, too: Person and religion: an introduction to the philosophy of religion, trans. by Theresa Sandok, New York i in.: Peter Lang 1991.