Biblijny wymiar kaznodziejstwa w ujęciu księdza Mariana Rzeszewskiego (1911–1982)

The Bible issues are clearly pointed out among the rich homiletics achievements of the priest Rzeszewski, a longlife professor of homiletics at the Higher Theological Seminary in Włocławek. The issues cover a variety of topics and, depending on when they were undertaken, before or after the Second Vatican Council, they have varied emphases and concerns. Basically, three main topics dominate: Holy Bible as a living word of God, the use of the Holy Bible in preaching and the Bible hermeneutics used in preaching. The analysis of the literature created for over thirty years can observe the clear transition from treating the Bible as a source of examples, the model of the preaching style, plenty of quotations, to the source of authentic word of God, that one needs to read, relying on the literary and theological principles and one needs to update it in any situation so that it awakens the faith and brings salvation. The author dedicated an extensive publication, which was prepared for printing, but which was never released: Basics of the biblical evangelization to these issues. It reflects it all which dominated the reading of biblical texts in recent years and their interpretation in the Church life. It says about the formation of the biblical text, the role of the word of God in creation of the people of the Old and New Testaments, the specificity of the word of God recorded in the Bible and the role of the biblical hermeneutics in discovering its proper message and it also gives the rules for updating the word of God in the homiletic message. In this way the priest Rzeszewski is a part of the latest trend of the proper use of the Bible in preaching