Biography

The Method Introducing Geometrical Diagrams
Fr. Franciszek Drączkowski is the creator of a new method introducing geometrical diagrams in theology and in pastoral activity. The basis of the method in question is the figure of a circle in which an equilateral triangle, the symbolic image of the Triune God, is inscribed. The core of the method, as well as the main line of its development, is the history of salvation presented in twenty geometrical diagrams which symbolically render the following truths of the faith: eternal God, the Holy Trinity, the creation of the Angels, the fall of the Angels, the Paradise or the friendship between man and God, the original sin, the promise of salvation, the incarnation of the Son of God, the mystery of Redemption, Christ’s Church, the Church as the temple of the Holy Spirit, Baptism, love of God, love of the neighbor, the way of perfection, purgatory, Baptism of desire, the communion of Saints, the hell as eternal separation from God, love as the perfect anticipation of Heaven. The presentation of the truths of the faith in which visual elements are employed can be used to correct misrepresentations and mistakes both in theology and in the beliefs of the faithful. Owing to the geometrical representations it introduces, the method in question bears the marks of “clarity and distinctness” once postulated by Descartes. Given substance by the geometrical figures employed throughout the application of the method, the presentation results in the kind of accurate evidence characteristic of sciences.

The bibliography the method introducing geometrical diagrams in theology

Franciszek Drączkowski:
- Poza miłością nie ma zbawienia [Outside love, there is no salvation] Pelplin Toruń 1996;
-Francesco di Fordon, La Salvezza è nell’ amore, Roma 1998;
-Nowa wizja teologii. Ujęcie graficzne [A new vision of theology. A geometrical approach], Pelplin Lublin 2000;
-Metoda wykresograficzna w katechezie [The method introducing geometrical diagrams in catechesis], Pelplin 2001;
-Skrót Katechizmu w ujęciu graficznym [Précis of the Catechism, as demonstrated by means of the graphic approach] , Sandomierz 2002;
-Teologia w kategoriach geometryczno-matematycznych [Theology, as interpreted in geometrical and mathematical terms], Pelplin 2003;
-Supernatural Geometry, Lublin 2004;
-Die Theologie In geometryscher Darstellung, Lublin 2004;
-Przyjaźń z Bogiem- źródłem szczęścia [The friendship with God is the source of happiness], Pelplin 2004;
-„Metoda geometryczna (wykresograficzna) w teologii” [The geometrical (diagrams introducing) method in theology], Roczniki Teologiczne 53 (2006) no. 4, pp. 21-43;
-„Metoda wykresograficzna w katechezie” [The method introducing geometrical diagrams in catechesis], in: W poszukiwaniu nowych metod katechetycznych [In pursuit of new catechetic methods, (ed.) H. Słotwińska, Lublin 2006, pp. 89-133;
-Poza Kościołem nie ma zbawienia. Ujęcie graficzne [There is no salvation outside the Church. A Graphic Approach], Pelplin 2008.