The Fundamental Theological Methods of the Lublin School of Theology

Abstract

Fundamental theology has been practiced at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin for a hundred years. The researchers conducting the research used methods developed and used by the most important theological centres of science. These included primarily a historical-synthetic method supplemented in ecclesiology with an analytical and empirical method. Over time, these methods were enriched with personalistic, historico-soteriological and semiotic contents. The elements of semiotico-personalist method present in Marian Rusecki’s publications should be considered original and characteristic of the Lublin school. In his research on miracle and some ecclesiological issues, Rusecki uses the theory of sign, giving it a very strong personalist inclination. However, this does not yet constitute a comprehensive and detailed research method, but only its initial outline.