Professor Reverend Jerzy Lewandowski, Ph.D. Hab.

	Father Professor Jerzy Lewandowski

Born in Ostróda on December 14, 1949.
1968-1974 - studied theology at the Warmia "Hosianum" Seminary in Olsztyn and the Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw;
1976-1980 - studied theology at the Department of Theology, Catholic University of Lublin;
1980-1983 - d'Etat doctorate at the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of the Humanities, Strasburg (now the Marc Bloch University); grant holder of the French government;
1975 - master of theology at the Department of Theology, Catholic University of Lublin on the basis of his thesis entitled The Office of Capitular Curate (supervisor: Father Professor Paweł Pałka);
1980 - doctor of dogmatic theology on the basis of his thesis: The Nation in the History of Salvation According to the Teachings of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński (supervisor: Fr. Professor Czesław Bartnik, reviewers: Bishop Professor Edward Ozorowski, Father Professor Ludwik Szafrański);
1988 - postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in Theological Sciences (dogmatic theology) granted on the basis of his book The Eucharist - Sacrament of the Person and the Community in the Teachings of Primate Stefan Wyszyński, ODISS, Warsaw, 1988 and his research achievements (reviewers: Fr. Professor Czesław Bartnik, S. Professor Zofia Zdybicka and Fr. Professor Alfons Skowronek);
2002 - Professor of Theological Sciences on the basis of his book God and Mankind, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Press, Warsaw 2001 and his research achievements (reviewers: Fr. Professor Lucjan Balter, Bishop Professor Jan Szlaga and Professor Tadeusz Dionizy Łukaszuk);
2004 - full professor.

Career:
1974-1976 - curate in Zduny, Żyrardów and Podkowa Leśna;
1983-1989 - curate of Corpus Christi Parish, Warsaw;
1983-1990 - lecturer in dogmatic theology (postdoctoral fellow since 1987), School of Catholic Theology at the St. John the Baptist Seminary, Warsaw;
1990-1997 - assistant professor at the Papal Theological Faculty in Wrocław and Head of the Chair of Dogmatic Theology II. Lecturer in dogmatic theology ("De gratia" treatise) at the Higher Metropolitan Seminary in Wrocław; Lecturer in dogmatic theology at the Gorzów Wielkopolski branch of the papal Theological Faculty in Wrocław;
1997-1998 - postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Theology, Academy of Catholic Theology, Warsaw (now the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University) and since 1998 - Head of the Chair of Fundamental Pastoral Theology;
Since 1997 - professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw;
Since 2000 - Head of the Chair of Contemporary Theology - Dogmatic Section, Department of Theology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University;
Since 2007 - Head of the Dogmatic Theology Section, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw.

Fr. Professor Jerzy Lewandowski is a member of the Polish Dogmatists' Association and the Polish Canonists' Association, the Scientific Board of the journal "Teologia i Człowiek" [Theology and man], the UMK Department of Theology Biennial, the Polish Advisory Committee of the International Theological Review "Communio". He has collaborated continually with "Peter Lang" Scientific Publishers in Switzerland since 1981, largely as a peer reviewer of articles on theology.
He has participated in numerous congresses and symposia, for example the International Mariological Congress in Kevelaer (Germany) where he presented the paper Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński's Mariology prior to Vatican II; the International Mariological Congress in Huelva (Spain) where he presented the paper in French Volonte de l'Amour et du Sens. Marialité du Primat Stefan Wyszyński - essai théologique et ascétique.
Fr. Professor Jerzy Lewandowski has supervised numerous BA and MA theses and 33 PhD theses.

Research accomplishments:
Fr. Professor Jerzy Lewandowski conducts research in the following dogmatic areas: the Triune God, the mystery of Incarnation and Redemption, ecclesiology, sacramentology, theology of earthly realities, ecumenism.
He is trying to demonstrate that, rather than being two parallel realities, God and man are inseparably and indestructibly related. This relation originated the moment God created man and woman and was completed in Jesus Christ's redemption. He keeps track of how people understand the ever alive and timely relationship between God and mankind. He views the sacraments available and visible in the Catholic Church as the proper way to experience this relationship. He studies dogmatic issues in their relation with human earthly reality. He is currently working on earthly reality as it relates to the Bible.
The present crisis of contemporary culture is rooted in the desecration of every sphere of human activity: political, social, scientific and economic. The world today is in the process of globalization which began in the cultural sphere and is now spreading to every other sphere of human activity. The Bible is a religious book of hope. It tells us about God or rather God tells us about Himself through the Bible. By seeking references between the Bible and reality he is trying to demonstrate that the Bible may act as the foundation of morality for contemporary men and women. This means that men and women are called to holiness and that it is possible to educate believers by showing them the biblical figures of Moses and the Chosen People.
Fr. Professor Jerzy Lewandowski also studies another important contemporary area, i.e., charity as the implementation of the norm of social solidarity inherent in the new Testament.
The consequence of these theological studies is the presentation of the trauma of suffering and death as an element of spiritual transformation and a stage on the road to salvation. These studies always refer to biblical dogmatic theology which is seeking its place in the contemporary theology of earthly reality. Christianity is striving to prove that Jesus Christ is the Master of time and space (Ap. 5), that He Himself is a Centre of time and space and that he has deprived them of their idol status. This is why he also studies time and space because every religion has its own way of conceptualizing time. The Jewish and Christian concepts are thought to be the most original and correct ones.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music