Aktualność Jana Pawła II koncepcji wychowania w rodzinie

Author(s): Anastazja Sorkowicz / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2015

Searching for a concept of education in a family occupies not only theorists of education but also parents and those persons with a lively interest in practical activities directed to helping families. The Holy Father John Paul II presented a Christian perspective of family and education: He treated the family as an inseparable relationship between a woman and a man, directed from one side towards the good of the spouses and from the other towards the transmission of life to children. Education, as understood byJohn Paul II, is one of the basic aims of a family, it is one of its most important tasks.The process relies on mutual gift of one’s humanity and takes place during interactions between family members. The success of educational process in a family depends onthe quality of relationship between parents: whether spouses – parents take trouble to establish and maintain a true community of persons, whether their relationship is based on mutual trust. Parenthood is understood by John Paul II as a gift and as a task, from which follows the basic right, and simultaneously an obligation, to educate children in accordance with one’s beliefs. This task is of such importance that it should not be appropriated by any other entity. Therefore parents are the first and most important educators of their children, responsible for forming in the younger generation the spirit of universal values. The article is to make the reader more familiar with the teaching of John Paul II concerning education in the family and indicate the elements of this teaching which are especially valid for a human being living at the beginning of the XXIth century and searching for the universal concept of education in the family.

Sfințirea Mare a apelor – semn al regenerării cosmice prin Epifania Treimică

Author(s): Petru Buta / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2019

In the liturgical tradition of the Orthodox Church, the great feast of the Epiphany has as main theological focus the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Jordan River. The liturgy of the feast and the hymns of the forefeast and of the afterfeast, starting from the text of the Gospel, develop the same theme. The Baptism of the Lord is understood and experienced in the Church as a salvific event, that encompasses not only the humankind but also the entire creation, and reveals the cosmic dimension of the mystery of salvation. The aim of this study is the structural analysis of the ritual of the Great Consecration of the Waters, followed by a concise presentation of the theological meanings of the water consecrated at the Epiphany.

Preacinstirea Născătoarei de Dumnezeu reflectată în imnografia Praznicului Adormirii Maicii Domnului

Author(s): Marius Emilian Făgădaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2019

The doctrine about the Holy Virgin Mary forms a substantial and a very important chapter of Christian theology, which has been enriched, analyzed and synthesized, in different contexts, by some Theologians and specialists in Mariology. The figure of the Mother of God is presented in the entire life of the Church, although we are speaking about the internal or the external liturgical service. She has occupied a determinant place in the heart of the believers, in personal piety or godliness, even from her life and especially after Her Assumption. This article tries to analyze the elements of the hymnography from this feast of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, to demonstrate the significance of this Holy feast and also the importance of the person of Holy Mother of God in the liturgical and sacramental life of the Orthodox Church.

Catehezele Sfântului Simeon Noul Teolog – diagnosticarea unei probleme ecleziale

Author(s): Ciprian Ionuț Joița / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2019

Saint Simeon The New Theologian is known in the Orthodox theology and beyond by his insistence and clarity with which he wishes to debate and analyse problems of the spiritual Christian life, often overlooked by the previous theologians or perhaps entrusted by them to a discretion of alloing each person to respond only in front of its own conscience. In his striking words, St. Simeon first unveils the serious problems of assuming, living and understanding the biblical teachings in the Constantinopolitan society of his time, problems that were the triggering factors of his spiritual discourse of that period, but which reflect so many human weaknesses present among believers all the time, up to our time. By this the article tries to emphasize the importance of his teachings for current Orthdox Theology.

Recenzja: Chantal Delsol Kamienie węgielne. Na czym nam zależy?

Author(s): Maciej Raczyński-Rożek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Јоханес Шефлер: мистичка поезија као катализатор (пост)модерне мисли

Author(s): Alen Albin Širca / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2019

This article deals with the history of reception of the German Baroque poet Johannes Scheffler (aka Angelus Silesius, 1624-1677), which served as a significant catalyst (to use the renowned poetological term of T. S. Eliot) on a number of writers and philosophers in the 19th and 20th century. First of all, the analysis is focused on Scheffler’s impact on Jorge Luis Borges who in reading of Scheffler’s mystical epigrams attempted to find the way out of the impasse of modernist subjectivity. Next, the article investigates the reception of the distinguished German poet by three renowned 20th century philosophers: Heidegger, Derrida, and Lacan. It becomes clear that all three have creatively appropriated the verses of Johannes Scheffler, and it has turned out that the mystical paradoxes of his poetry paved the way for the articulation of some typical postmodern concepts of these philosophers. In Heidegger’s case, Scheffler’s verses on the mystical rose helps define the ungroundedness of being. In the case of Derrida, the scope of Schefflers epigrams seems very close to that of the so-called experience of deconstruction, and in case of Lacan, Schefller’s poetry is read as the most efficient meditation on being, which in opposition to un-being (the Real) marks the successful end of the psychoanalytical process.

Wychowanie społeczne w katolickiej rodzinie

Author(s): Roman Jusiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2012

Family has a fundamental role in peoples life and creates circumstances for integral development of a person. Catholic family creates very important environment for forming adult characters, because of its fundamental rule to love all the people. Social education present in catholic families is interesting method of socialization individuals.

Učenia Jána Pavla II o rodine

Author(s): Amantius Akimjak / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2012

The article stems from a number of postulates, such as: Family should be a healthy cell of the Church, the family is a place of love and life, the place where love bears life, it is important that young people do not neglect their preparation for family life. The author of the article discusses with young people the dangers relating to love and relationships, he presents the opinion of the Holy Father, who highlights the fact that family is the crossroad of human beings, on which to great extent depends their future, further the author speaks of unity, inseparability and faithfulness in marriage. In conclusion the author points out the necessity of inclusion into life the values of marriage, which should help in the development of a healthy family.

Rozvod a cirkevnoprávna nulita manželstva ako dôsledok nefunkčnosti rodiny

Author(s): Mária Korbová,Miroslav Korba / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2012

This article represents a view at divorce from the sight of society and the Church, too. The high divorce rate, the high number of uncomplete family, the presentation of nonlegitimate coexistence, step parents and so on, there are reasons to acquire our attention. The Church also offers a help to the families because it is aware about the function family and the marriage – they create one of the most valuable mankind riches.

„Omas koguduses truuiks jääda“: Tartu Saalemi koguduse ajaloost, 1919–1949

Author(s): Toivo Pilli / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 2 (75)/2019

This article, covering the years 1919–1949, focuses on the early development of Tartu Saalem church, a community which officially began in 1919 as a group of revivalist believers who found it hard to fit into the existing ecclesial landscape. In the 1930s, the church joined the Union of Estonian free revivalist believers, and in 1946, under Soviet pressures, merged with a local Pentecostal church, and joined the Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.The movement was from being a closed community towards careful cooperation with other churches, from authoritative leadership towards ways of collective decision making. However, strong leaders, such as Johannes Joonas and Paul Himma, played an important role all through the years under investigation. After 1946 the Saalem church entered a phase of relatively balanced spirituality, with a less emotional style of public prayer and a desire to be rooted in Biblical teaching. Using archive materials the author also gives an account of this free church’s relations with the state.

Vůle Boží ve františkánské spiritualitě

Author(s): Willibrord-Christian van Dijk / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2020

Quoiqu’il en soit des jeux d’influence et de dépendance doctrinale, l’ordre franciscain dans son ensemble, et les Capucins en particulier, tendant à une harmonisation entre l’action (ascétique ou apostolique) et la contemplation, qui est sand doute une façon de mettre la volonté de l’homme au service de la plénitude de la volonté de Dieu. Mais il ne s’agit pas simplement et uniquement, dans cette réflexion de la volonté de Dieu, d’un plan moral ou strictement ascétique: c’est toute la vie spirituelle, jusqu’aux plus hauts sommets de l’union mystique, qui est en cause, pasticulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit de l’expérience et de l’enseignement de religieux tels que ce Benoît de Canfield ou Laurent de Paris.

Umelecká hodnota pohrebnej reči Serafína Piščeka

Author(s): Erika Brtáňová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

The contribution is dedicated to the Franciscan preacher Serafín Pišček, a representative of the Slovak baroque homiletic writers. It focuses on the textual analysis of Pišček’s funeral speech Žalost upokojená (Soothed Grief) (Trnava 1760), a valuable linguistic monument formulated in the cultural pre-standard Slovak. The speech delivered by Pišček at the funeral of the countess Františka Ňáriová (Nyáriová) is, on the one hand, a commemoration of the virtues and deeds of the deceased, though on the other hand it is a reflection on dealing with a loss of a close person. With respect to the composition, it contains fixed components of a funeral speech (lamentatio, consolatio, valedictio, laus mortui). In terms of minor thematic components, it is possible to find evidence of Pišček’s effort towards a compelling and impressive speech. In order for the content to be compelling, Pišček uses the biblical text and the works of the catholic theologians as the sources of his arguments. To achieve impressiveness of expression, he uses short historical narratives (exempla), affective expressions (epithets, comparisons), tropes (metaphor, symbol), figures of speech (questions, apostrophes).

Odkrywanie świadomości religijnej w literaturze emigracji rosyjskiej pierwszej fali (o powieści Druga miłość Wasilija Janowskiego)

Author(s): Patryk Witczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXIV/2019

Vasily Yanovsky belongs to the younger generation of the first wave of Russian emigration. In his works, he combined the traditions of 19th-century Russian realism as well as the tendencies of Western literature in Europe. The article is an analysis of Yanovsky’s story The Second Lovein which the author shows the life in Paris from a Russian exile’s perspective. The writer gives an account of a dramatic decline in moral values in the face of poverty and loneliness by making refer-ence to the poetics of naturalism and the genre of so-called “human document”. The Orthodox faith in Yanovsky’s story becomes a source of hope for an emigrant’s survival.

RADOVI ŠABANA HODŽIĆA OBJAVLJENI U TAKVIMU OD 1964. DO 1981. GODINE

Author(s): Šefko Sulejmanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 4/2011

Predstavljeni radovi Šabana Hodžića objavljeni su u vremenskom periodu od 1964. do 1981. godine u “Takvimu“ Vrhovnog starješinstva Islamske zajednice u Jugoslaviji. Nastali su u ambijentalnosti socijal-komunističke Jugoslavije kada je vjerska literatura bila pod budnim nadzorom i strogom cenzurom Države. Uprkos takvim okolnostima, pored znanstvenog rada koji nastavlja nakon odlaska u mirovinu 1965. godine, Šaban Hodžić se kao odgovan intelektualac i kompetentan alim bavi vjerskim i društveno-aktuelnim temama, koje se mogu podijeliti u dvije grupe. U prvu grupu bi se mogli svrstati radovi u kojima autor tematski afirmira islam i njegove sveukupne vrijednosti, u koegzistencijalnom odnosu sa drugim religijama, kulturama i civilizacijama, napose onim na Zapadu. U drugim radovima on detektirati negativne pojave i devijantna ponašanja u okruženju i šire, iznoseći islamske stavove i svoje mišljenje naspram njih. U ovom radu predstavljeno je devet takvih opservacija.

Romantična umetnost i filozofski idealizam. Sprega religioznog i filozofskog doživljaja u poetskoj slici sveta u baladi nemačkog romantizma

Author(s): Jelena Knežević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2014

A figure in which German romanticism unites the religious and philosophical cognition of the world is a poet. He who is the prophet, priest and the thinking being, converts his intuitive and sentimental cognition into a poetic creation, the only possible construction of the wholeness which, presenting the order of things within individual space, is the witness of the world order as it is. One of the most popular genres of Romanticism, the artistic ballad, being a reflective and self-reflective type of poetry, both demonstrates and artistically effectively presents the process of simultaneity of cognition and creation by using literary devices which create a distance between the topic and speech instance, that is, by means of simple narrative matrix and the tone of folk poetry, change of speech instances, by problematizing the status of the real or shifting of what is presented to fairytale spheres. This paper tends to show it by taking theoretical postulates of Romantic poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and perception of ballad by Hartmut Laufhite as starting points, and using the examples of representative ballads by Novalis, Tieck and Brentano with the topic of poet and his position in the world.

INTERCULTURAL DIMENSION OF EDUCATIONAL DIALOGUE IN UNDERSTANDING RELIGION

Author(s): Constantin Valer Necula,Maria CURTEAN / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Working with children of different nationalities and cultures is a challenge for the Romanian teachers. It requires both new research in the methodology field and a reconsideration of the importance of some of the subjects taught in schools. In this regard, the article shows the role of religious education in the context of the global challenges and quick changes, which require a new approach of child education based on transversal competencies. Considering the primary Finnish School of Sibiu model, the authors’ view is that the class of religious education can contribute through tools and methods of non-formal education to the holistic project of educating man, namely body-mind and soul. They consider that it trains the child to be a responsible citizen with a strong identity, able to face the new challenges and to understand the civic and ethical dimension of life. Moreover, it contributes to developing child’s spiritual intelligence, preparing him to live responsibly in the religious pluralism and offering the chance to assimilate and apply the common values, namely love, respect, communion and spirit of justice.

SPIRITUALITY - AN ORGANIZATIONAL DIMENSION

Author(s): Angelica-Nicoleta Neculaesei (Onea) / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The organizations’ competition for profit, but also the phenomena associated to the third wave have emphasized possible needs that can be met through rediscovery of spirituality, by individuals and organizations. Although the interest for this dimension has been manifested for some time, many aspects were not clarified, which is why we consider necessary to develop a review of the specialized literature.

SANDU TUDOR, THE CHRISTIAN STUDENT, BETWEEN ETHNOCENTRISM AND UNIVERSALISM (1927-1928)

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The present study is an overview of students’ congresses organized in 1927 and 1928 by three organizations – the Y. M. C. A. (Young Men's Christian Association), the A. S. C. R. (the Christian Student Association, Romania) and the U. N. S. C. R. (Christian Students’ National Union of Romania); it is a period marked by growing tensions among members of the U. N. S. C. R., the radicalization of the relationships among young people from various Christian national student movements, who will gradually discover irreconcilable incompatibilities. The sources of documentation are national archives and the press of those times. Alexandru Teodorescu (alias Sandu Tudor), the central figure of this paper, also fits in the picture of a generation engaged in the chase to discover the eschatological dimension of their time. The fractures between the two organizations stemming from ideas (the differences between the Christian dogmas promoted by the Y. M. C. A and the orthodox church) and social context (a distinct response to radicalized student movements) are also reflected in the evolution of Sandu Tudor’s perception of the relationships among the A. S. A. C. R. U., the N. S. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A.

IMPORTANȚA UNEI SCRIERI TEOLOGICE DE LA FINELE SECOLULUI AL XVIII-LEA PENTRU FILOSOFIA ROMÂNEASCĂ DE AZI

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 1/2020

The Musical Rhetoric of the Baroque on the Example of Johannes Brahms’ Psalm XIII Op. 27

Author(s): Miłosz Bazelak / Language(s): English Issue: 04 (39)/2018

The musical style of Johannes Brahms has long been known as influenced by music of the earlier epochs. His references to techniques, forms and genres of the Renaissance and Baroque music and the elaborate use of the counterpoint were frequently analysed by musicologists. Less often, however, the potential relationship between word and music shaped by the Baroque music rhetoric was studied, something which was somewhat forgotten in the Romanticism. Brahms’ fascination with the past, which led the composer to study the 18th-century musical literature and treatises, enabled him to recognise many interesting aspects of the Baroque music. Like Bach and his contemporaries, Brahms used rhetorical figures in his early sacred works, e.g. Psalm XIII Op. 27.