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Parents of children with special needs have many duties when compared to parents of children with typical development and they face with many hardships in every stages of their lives. Parents cannot cope with hardships easily and they can fray out from emotional dimensions. This study carried out based on the idea that problems and hardships experienced by the parents of children with special needs make them to head for religion. It was aimed to determine the religious tendencies of parents of children with special needs in this research. Participants of the study consisted of 68 parents of children with special needs and 'Religious Tendency Scale' was administered to the parents. The results of the study showed that parents were undecided on general religious tendency, internal and external religious tendency.
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In addition to novels, short stories (russ: „повести”) represent one of the most significant aspects of Victor Pelevin’s works, which, according to many scholars of contemporary Russian literature, are not given enough attention in the analysis. Although a more detailed acquaintance with Pelevin’s work and chronology of his editions leads to the conclusion that collections of his short stories and narratives represent a kind of „warehouse“ for themes and ideas that the writer later develops into fully-fledged novels, the roleof these collections in his poetics is no less. The point is, that the writer uses shorter literary forms to focuse completely on a certain topic, idea or a special method of stylistic shaping of the text, which in novels, due to the specificity of the genre itself, is not always possible. It was this feature that made Pelevin’s stories and narratives, in their own way, the most suitable forms for getting acquainted with the essence of the author’s creative conceptions.Also, it should be noted that although these texts function as „closedworlds“, at first glance unrelated to one another, collections of stories still complete a set of topics that, according to Pelevin, best describes the state of collective consciousness of Russian society in the period when these texts appeared. In this paper we analyse the thematics and ideology of Pelevin‘s short stories on the example of „Hermit and Sixfingers“.
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Peter Ahlwardt, an eighteenth-century professor at the University in Greifswald, is primarily remembered as the author of the Bronto-theology, in which he presented his thunder-theology – an idea which belongs to a very strong physico-theology movement at that time. This article situates this very small portion of physico-theology in the context of Ahlwardt’s philosophy and theology. In his epistemology, Ahlwardt stressed the need for reason in understanding and appreciating revelation. Conversely, he also required that reason should be illuminated by the Holy Spirit, thereby stating that the revelation is the final authority. Ahlwardt rejected the idea of an inborn concept of God – thus, the only way open to the knowledge of God is a posteriori from God’s creation. Ahlwardt proved the existence of God from self-awareness. Creation exists to show God’s infinite perfections, and humans, as rational creatures, should investigate nature to see these perfections and learn about the will of God. Like other physico-theologians, Ahlwardt used his investigation of thunder and lightning to show that they are manifestations of God’s attributes. Relying on the perfection and the unity of God’s attributes, Ahlwardt argued that these investigated atmospheric phenomena are as much the manifestations of God’s wrath as of His love; they make people see the greatness of God’s splendour and make them think about God’s perfections.
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The article was inspired by the Year of Saint Joseph (2020/2021), announced by Pope Francis on 8 December 2020, and the occasional Apostolic Letter Patris corde, as well as the teaching of the post-Conciliar Church and the growing liturgical and non-liturgical worship of St Joseph. The aim of the article is to show the spirituality of St Joseph as a model and sign for contemporary people. The intended goal made it possible to specifically formulate the problem of the study, which boils down to the question: why does St Joseph appear as kairos in the third millennium? In order to achieve the set goal and solve the problem, the article was structured in the form of a triptych. The first chapter presents a feature of Joseph’s biography in light of the Gospel. It shows the gradual discovery of the place and role of St Joseph in the history of salvation. The second chapter presents selected aspects of Josephological spirituality that call for imitation. The third chapter is devoted to the reading of Saint Joseph’s kairos, given to us for the third millennium. The research conducted in each of the chapters has indicated that the lived Year of Saint Joseph, which is celebrated by the universal Church, as well as the growing interest in Josephological spirituality, inspire us to deepen his multi-dimensional personality and draw from it a universal message for the third millennium. Such an approach to the person and mission of St Joseph makes it possible to discover and honour him as a special patron for the difficult period of the third millennium. The importance of St Joseph continues to grow, and his intercession is becoming effective and more necessary, especially in the community of believers. The dissertation makes one aware that the holy patriarch teaches us, with the power of his faith, to entrust the history of mankind to God in the great confusion of contemporary disbelief. Moreover, his unique attitude involving silence, combined with praying for silence and work, makes him a man of the Gospel. Joseph’s faith in Christ and his faithfulness to the Gospel are “a sign of the times” for contemporaries and must be constantly read, making St Joseph a specific kairos for the third millennium.
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The COVID-19 pandemic, which surfaced in early 2020, has become an opportunity for theologians and philosophers to sort out several dogmatic issues. One of the tasks that were undertaken was an attempt to establish the place of the old devotional practice called spiritual communion in the religious order. Spiritual communion is usually defined as the earnest desire to receive sacramental communion, which can arouse in a believer in situations when it is not possible to receive the Eucharist physically. Most often, this desire is accompanied by appropriate prayer. However, theologians are not unanimous about the effectiveness of spiritual communion: some argue that spiritual communion is as effective as sacramental communion, while others claim that the effectiveness of spiritual communion cannot be equated with that of sacramental communion. The aim of this study is to justify the thesis that sacramental communion always surpasses spiritual communion in terms of effectiveness. This can be supported by statements of Thomas Aquinas and the Council of Trent, as well as a philosophical analysis of the fact of incarnation that God made in order to enter into a physical, not just spiritual, community with humans.
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In this study we try to extract the most valuable warnings about the fading of love as a social reality in the future society, focusing on the couple relationship realities, in the research of the Italian psychoanalyst Giacomo Dacquino. He lists: the sprawling of vulgarocracy, the egalitarianism that demolishes the hierarchy, the hypertrophy of the biological factor (by medicine) in love; the paralysis of the power to love ("affective fragmentation" of subjects). As a comforting conclusion, he proposes the recognition of affectivity as a multifaceted and complex structure; cultivating it through a responsible pedagogy: the praise of good education expressed multifactorially, in different ways (through: courtesy, cordiality, inner nobility, kindness; immunization of young people in front of clichés circulated by the media).
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In the Orthodox Church, we often assume that some customs have only ritual significance, such as Baptism. It is somehow self-evident that the value of this custom belongs to our tradition, nation, or even superstition. For example, we tend to overlook the importance of Baptism in an ontological sense as a significant development of our own self-consciousness. Instead of being understood as the birth of the subject, the majority understand Baptism as primarily concerned with an immersion into a collective identity. This paper deals primarily with the emancipatory dimension of Baptism, which encourages the development of a responsible subject that is an active participant in life and history.
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This Contribution discusses ethical principle of graduality (the principle of gradual growth) as one of the ways, with which one can progress towards the achievement of ethical ideals in the application of the problematic situations of the spouses with family planning. This principle essentially means that moral norm commits objectively, but concrete individuals are able to respect it on different degrees according to their abilities. Here we want to point out the approach of the magistrate and the popes as well as various specialists to this difficult problem of human growth to know and observe the moral natural laws.
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This research basically aims to empirically address the relationship between ungratefulness and religiousness in young people in terms of religious psychology. Also, the research targeted to identify differences and associations in the levels of religiousness and ungratefulness of participants based on socio-cultural and demographic factors. In the research conducted using screening method and online survey technique; Individuals between the ages of 18 and 26 living within the provincial boundaries of Izmir form the population of the research. The 473 young people selected by the method of random sampling from this population constitute the sampling of the research. The research used "Personal Information Form," "Ungratefulness Scale" and "Ok-Religiousness Scale" as data collection tools. SPSS 25 statistical package software was used to analyze the raw data taken from the research. In the analysis of the data, factor analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and correlation techniques were used. The results of the study showed a negative and significant relationship between overall religiousness and the dimensions of cognition, emotion related to God, and ungratefulness towards Allah (UTA). Similarly, a negative and statistically significant relationship was established between overall religiousness and the dimensions of cognition, emotion related to God, and overall total ungratefulness (OTU). On the other hand, no significant relationship was found between ungratefulness towards teachers (UTT), ungratefulness towards fathers (UTF), ungratefulness towards other people doing favor (UTPDF), and the overall total religiosity and all sub-dimensions of religiosity.
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