The Polish government has created two new academic disciplines, biblical studies and family studies. “Both are especially needed in Poland,” says education minister Przemysław Czarnek.
Speaking at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Czarnek revealed that he has signed an ordinance creating the new fields of study. He noted that the country already has a number of leading researchers in the areas, and “we have great potential to really develop” them further, particularly at KUL.
The discipline of family studies is especially vital because, “without family we won’t exist in 50 years”, added Czarnek, quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
The Polish government has created two new academic disciplines, biblical studies and family studies. “Both are especially needed in Poland,” says education minister Przemysław Czarnek.
Speaking at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Czarnek revealed that he has signed an ordinance creating the new fields of study. He noted that the country already has a number of leading researchers in the areas, and “we have great potential to really develop” them further, particularly at KUL.
The discipline of family studies is especially vital because, “without family we won’t exist in 50 years”, added Czarnek, quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
Last month, Czarnek warned that “Poland will either be Christian or it will not exist”. Last year, he called for children to receive a Christian education in order to “save Latin civilisation” and suggested that schools should use the writings of Pope John Paul II to teach business and sexuality.
Czarnek’s appointment as education minister aroused protests among many academics, hundreds of whom signed letters calling for him to be dismissed and for an international boycott against him.
In response to the minister’s latest announcement, Jan Hartman – a professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and prominent anticlerical activist – argued in an article for Polityka that the new fields of biblical and family studies are simply a way for the government to channel more state money towards the church.