Petrycego z Pilzna adaptacje Horacjańskich pieśni erotycznych

Author(s): Aleksandra Mathiesen,Magdalena Jaworska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

While serving his sentence in the Moscovsky prison Sebastian Petrycy of Pilzno,Polish Aristotelian, translated, adapted and attached the commentaries to the cantosof Quintus Horatius Flaccus. For him it was primarily a form of consolation during thatsevere punishment, for the generations of readers it was and is a magnificent fusionof poetry ant moral philosophy at its finest.The translated text constituted a base for creating a paraphrase of the wisdomof the Roman poet in order to make it more understandable for Polish audience.He intertwined Horatian lyrics with Polish expressions and assimilated it with indigenousreality of his times. Moreover, he put his effort in explaining the poetic message in its most philosophical aspects adding the set of commentaries along the main text.In this article the erotic motif of Horatian poetry and Petricean rendition and comments will be analyzed and exposed from a philosophical perspective. And as far as loveand desire remain the main pillars of human essentiality, the Authors aim into emphasizingthe importance of Petrycy’s work from ethical and pedagogical points of view.

SOCIOLOGIJA RELIGIJE KAO DISCIPLINA SOCIOLOGIJE

Author(s): Nikola Skledar / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

SOCIOLOGIJA RELIGIJE I VERSKA TOLERANCIJA: O ČEMU IDE REČ

Author(s): Dragoljub B. Đorđević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

PRAVNI POLOŽAJ VJERSKIH ZAJEDNICA U HRVATSKOJ: STVARNOST I PERSPEKTIVE

Author(s): Ankica Marinović Bobinac / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

NACIONALNE I RELIGIJSKE MANJINE U SRBIJI I CRNOJ GORI, NJIHOVA SUSRETANJA I SUKOBI

Author(s): Zdravko Šorđan / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

PREDNACRT ZAKONA O VERSKIM ZAJEDNICAMA U SRBIJI

Author(s): Toma Branković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

NAUKA O RELIGIJI NA NJEMAČKIM UNIVERZITETIMA

Author(s): Zrinka Štimac / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2006

In this essay I give a short overview of the academic discipline Study of Religion (also known as the History of Religion or Science of Religion). I deal with methods, main research areas and most important questions of this discipline. Additionally I deal with the practical contribution of this discipline to the democratic societies. This academic approach is with some smaller differences common to all institutes and departments which are members of the European Association for the History of Religion and International Association for the History of Religion.

Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy’s Ecumenical Ecclesiology

Author(s): Andrzej Napiórkowski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The systematic theology of the 20th and 21st centuries has experienced revolutionary changes. The tremendous effort of theologians – which was already evident on the eve of Vatican II to experience order and confirmation during its deliberations – is still bearing fruit today. It seems that interpretations of the Council’s teaching have now become more problematic than the doctrine of Vatican II itself. One of the great figures of the theological world is Prof. Stanislaw Nagy, whose create efforts were honoured with a cardinalate, and to whom we are all indebted. Indeed, it is worth discovering his difficult path from the pre-council rigorous spiritual and intellectual formation to formal apologetics, thus paving the way for fundamental theology in Poland during the Communist period, to the ecumenical commitment of the times of freedom. In this respect, it is not without reason to speak of his ecumenical vision of the Church.

Ignacy Jeż – pierwszy biskup koszalińsko-kołobrzeski (1972–1992)

Author(s): Łukasz Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: jubileusz/2023

On June 28, 1972, by a decision of Pope Paul VI, the Diocese of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg (Kołobrzeg) was created and its first diocesan bishop, Ignacy Jeż, was appointed. In the months that followed, he took a number of legal steps to fulfill the papal decision, starting with canonically taking charge of the diocese, taking up residence in the diocese, appointing some first officials, defining the rules for the functioning of the episcopal curia, and finally making the ceremonial ingress into the Koszalin cathedral and taking the state oath required by law. Over the next 20 years of his governing, Bishop Ignacy Jeż established the most important diocesan institutions, expanded the territorial network and created a particular law. After his resignation and its acceptance by Pope John Paul II, he retired on February 1, 1992.

Udział wiernych świeckich w kościelnej władzy rządzenia. Teoretyczne implikacje zagadnienia w praktyce

Author(s): Przemysław Michowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

The article is a contribution to the doctrinal discussion, the subject of which, since the Second Vatican Council, has been the participation of the lay faithful in the Church’s governing authority. In addition to the theories of power present in the doctrine, the author points to the concept of presumed power, understanding it as a possible solution to the problems and controversies that have accumulated over the years. The recent amendment to the law on the Roman Curia seems to confirm the intuition of the proposed theory of potestas a munere, which is further strengthened by some events documenting the entrustment of some important Church offices to lay faithful.

Czcigodny sługa Boży ks. Aloísio Sebastião Boeing SCJ – kapłan według Serca Jezusowego

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Holiness is the goal of the Christian life. One of the examples of the holiness of consecrated persons is the figure of the venerable Servant of God, Fr. Aloysius Sebastian (Aloísio Sebastião) Boeing SCJ. The aim of the article is to show the spiritual growth of this candidate for the altar, his dedication to serving God’s people and the spiritual inspirations he drew from the spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Marian piety.

МОЖЕ ЛИ РЕЛИГИЈА БИТИ УЗРОК СУКОБА?

Author(s): Stefan Antić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 41/2024

The paper represents a theoretical exploration of contemporary conflict assumptions that, indirectly or directly, emphasize the close connection between religion and conflict. The main goal of the paper is to answer the question of whether religion can be a cause of conflict in the modern world. However, the paper also provides answers to a series of secondary but equally important questions: Is monotheism an intolerant form of religion? Does the Bible represent a source of violence? Is religious division a basis for conflict causation? In addition, considering the frequent and easy use of the qualifier “religious,” the author explains the phenomenon of “violence in the name of faith,” which is often encountered in reports from war-affected areas. Since various sources and works from different scientific disciplines were used during the research, an appropriate categorical apparatus of each scientific discipline was applied to analyze each scientific field. Therefore, in addition to general logical methods (analysis, classification, induction, deduction, reasoning), the paper also uses several specific scientific methods such as the historical-critical method, comparative approach, context of use, etc. Based on the conducted research, the author concludes that contemporary “religious” conflicts are not inherent to society, but their causality is not in religion but in the abuse of religion.

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA

Author(s): Davit Andguladze / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

In the modern world, relations between Russia and China are more and more frequently in the center of scientific and informational attention. These relations date back several centuries and, in fact, were established through the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, which was engaged in diplomatic activities for more than a century. In modern Russia, the Orthodox Church is at the forefront and plays an important role in the state and inter-state relations. Accor­dingly, the relationship of the Moscow Patriarchate with modern China is a matter of special importance. The analysis of the sources cited in the present paper does not cover only the political topic, but also refers to religious issues.

Philosopher of Samarqand: Abu Mansur al-Maturıdı’s Theory of Properties

Author(s): Ramon Harvey / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This article tries to make up a lack of the recognition of the theologian of the Ḥanafī tradition from Samarqand in Transoxiana Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī’s philosophical contribution to the Muslim theology in regard to the theory of divine properties. Viewing al-Māturīdī as an early trope theorist, the author has dug into al-Māturīdī’s ontology, which argues to the effect that the substances are not just bundles of qualities but of particular property instances, or tropes. This al-Māturīdī’s theory comes in the context of his dialectical exchange about divine speech with an unnamed interlocutor. Thus, it is the author’s suggestion that those who teach more systematic courses that involve tropes should consider enriching and diversifying the historical context of their syllabus by including al-Māturīdī as an early example of a trope theorist. In addition to that al-Māturīdī’s has important ethical ideas that could be explored in comparison to other religious thinkers and philosophers.

(HIERO) History and Islamic Civilization

Author(s): Mustafa Cerić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This paper tries to penetrate into the merits of Islamic civilization in promoting the progress of humanity and the causes of the decline and withdrawal of Islamic civilization from the global cultural and political scene. The basic thought is that neither the meek nor aggressive civilization has ever ruled the world, but the world has always been ruled by cooperative civilizations, of which the Islamic civilization can serve as a proven historical example of civilizational cooperation. Therefore, the author claims that the recovery of Islamic civilization is neither in isolation nor in assimilation, but in the affirmation of civilizational values, which are common to all mankind.

Despre citarea Psalmului 104/103 în Evrei 1:7 şi dezvoltarea Scripturii prin traducere

Author(s): Călin Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The rendering of the verse Ps. 104/103:4/5 from Hebrew into Greek and its quotation in the Epistle to the Hebrews arouses difficulties beyond the amplitude of a local translation issue. If the phrase has two main meanings in Hebrew, and apparently only one in Greek (the one that is less probable in the psalm’s context), this seems to signal out a deviation in translation, due to an “atomistic” and “transformative” rabbinic exegesis. The hermeneutic conception of the Epistle shown in the respective passage undermines the simplistic notions of a MT as the unique and perfect OT and of a LXX as the most faithful and exact translation of the Hebrew Vorlage. On the contrary, the late and successive revisions themselves are adopted as parts of the Old Testament heritage and can be quoted as coming from God. One practical consequence of this study is that the LXX can be used as a fully legitimate source for Psalter/OT translation (as the Eastern tradition requires), at least equally valid as the MT.

Is there an ecclesiastical text of the Bible? (Roundtable)

Author(s): Alexandru Mihăilă,Filotheu Bălan,Sebastian Brock,Sysse Engberg,Catherine Mary MacRobert / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Ницше и християнството в български прочит (първата половина на ХХ век)

Author(s): Nina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

The article is an attempt to trace the reception of one specific aspect of Nietzsche's ideas in the Bulgarian cultural space – his attitude towards Christianity, and, in particular, his differentiated attitude towards the personality of Jesus and that of the Apostle Paul, i.e. to the teaching and to the institution. The research is also motivated by the current interest in the significance of the work of the Apostle Paul on the part of prominent contemporary philosophers. Attention is focused on the fact that in the Bulgarian philosophical thought of the first half of the 20th century, two books appeared whose titles begin with the prefix anti – “Antichrist by Yanko Yanev (1926) and Anti-Nietzsche” (1931/1932) by Lyuben Kazandzhiev. The polemic surrounding Kazandzhiev's book shows the highly emotional attitude towards Nietzsche (respectively towards his attitude towards Christianity) among the Bulgarian intellectual circles of the first half of the XXth century.

Noul Statut pentru organizarea și funcționarea Bisericii Ortodoxe Române (2020) și modificările aduse în viața bisericească

Author(s): Rareș-Ștefan Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10-12/2022

The Romanian Orthodox Church operates following a Statute of organization and functioning. The presence of this document is not only a legal requirement, existent in all the laws of cults so far, but also a Constitutional right. The elaboration of such a document was made in different moments of the history of this Church, which were directly connected with the Romanian country’s particularly historical and political events, but also with the changes in the life of this religious institution. Such changes have generated the need to update the old Statute of Organization (issued in 2007) through a new document, published in Monitorul Oficial in early 2020. Because this legislative innovation has been treated in the Romanian society with low interest, we present here the differences between these two documents.

Il significato della comunione nella vita ecclesiale

Author(s): Ljubo ZADRIĆ / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2024

Partendo dai dati della Sacra Scrittura e attraversando la storia della Chiesa, scopriamo le categorie importanti per la vita ecclesiale, dalle quali derivano anche gli indirizzi e modelli ecclesiologici. Uno di quelli è la comunione che deriva dal mistero fondamentale della fede cattolica: la SS. Trinità, che mediata agli uomini tramite l’incarnazione del Figlio, diventa per la Chiesa l’impegno centrale. Quell’impegno tiene insieme la partecipazione alla vita divina da una e l’edificazione dell’unità tra gli uomini dall’altra parte. Con questo articolo vorrei mostrare innanzitutto tre aspetti della comunione, cioè l’aspetto teologico, poi quell’ ecclesiologico e infine l’aspetto sacramentale. Tutti e tre hanno le radici nei testi della Sacra Scrittura e dalla Tradizione cattolica sono stati definiti la dimensione significativa per la vita ecclesiale e come tali sono stati riconosciuti anche dal concilio Vaticano II la base dell’ecclesiologia e del futuro della Chiesa. Provo a dimostrare che la comunione era ed è l’impego centrale per la Chiesa cattolica.