Hannah Arendt on the Augustinian Concept of Love

Author(s): Erzsébet Kerekes / Language(s): English Issue: 63/2022

This paper examines the influence of Augustine's work on Hannah Arendt's oeuvre. Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin. Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation (1929), Arendt's dissertation on Augustine, is analyzed in order to understand how its key concepts continue to be operative in Arendt's later, mature works. The dissertation is relevant to the entire Arendtian oeuvre, as it deals with topics that were absorbed into Arendt's own thinking and help to identify the main nodes of her philosophical thought. This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of Augustine's work on Arendt's and contributes to the understanding of her thought as a whole.

Faith and God according to Jacques Derrida

Author(s): Agustinus Ryadi / Language(s): English Issue: 65/2023

This article asserts that Derrida’s concept of faith, which is devoid of the object, is faith in the nothingness that still requires the concept of God. In the first part, I explain the position of faith in religion. Derrida, who can be called an atheist, states that religion is an unavoidable question. In the second part, I explain how the concept of faith in nothingness tends to negate faith. Faith which is marked by hope and restlessness is faith without the object. In the third part, I explain that the concept of faith without an object requires the concept of God. The deconstruction of the concept of a God who reveals Himself is expressed in the idea of the death of God as the core of Christianity. In the fourth section, I elucidate the significance of Derrida's concept of faith without an object for believers, concluding this article.

The construction of the millennial generation religious vision through digital literacy

Author(s): Desi Erawati,Agus Indiyanto,Arkan Syafera / Language(s): English Issue: 65/2023

The transformation of society that has led to the advent of digital technology does not necessarily result in the breakdown of the social system. Concerns about a new value system that supplants traditional values among the millennial generation have yet to be substantiated. Furthermore, fears of religious ideology being fueled by computer algorithms have not been observed among millennials in Central Kalimantan. In fact, the participation of the millennial generation in the digital communication sphere has led to a more open and tolerant religious perspective, rather than a monolithic religious vision. Their observance of the intersection of religion and politics in national discourse has made them uninterested in seeking out or consuming religious and state-related issues. Instead, they tend to favor topics related to human relationships, conveyed in a smooth and engaging manner. This reflects the millennial generation’s desire for a modern and uncomplicated religious life, placing religious issues in the private rather than public sphere. While this study provides a comprehensive picture of the religious vision of millennials in Central Kalimantan, a more nuanced understanding can be achieved by comparing it to similar research in a different and more complex technological context, such as Java. The difference in exposure to digital technology and characteristics of respondents is likely to have an effect on the religious vision of the millennial generation.

GRANICE SLOBODE I PRINUDE U ULOZI PROSVETLJENJA: O DEBATI IZMEĐU LOKA I PROASTA

Author(s): Ivan Matić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 4/2024

This paper will present a detailed analysis of the theological-political debate between the english philosopher John Locke and the protestant theologian Jonas Proast, which took place through a series of letters between 1689 and 1704, and which centered around the the limitations of freedom and coercion in the purpose of enlightenment. In the first part of the paper, we will present a brief overview of the circumstances of the early modern period in England, where this debate took place, as well as the foundations of Locke’s political thought; afterward, we will take a look at his original Letter Concerning Toleration. The second part of the paper will be dedicated to analyzing the course of the debate between the two authors through the course of the following six letters. In the third part, their arguments will be critically analyzed in order to deepen our understanding of their opinions, as well as the consistency of their beliefs with regard to religious toleration.

Chrystologia w „Expositio Symboli Apostolorum” Jana z Kwidzyna

Author(s): Przemysław Artemiuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2024

Expositio Symboli Apostolorum is a work by John of Kwidzyn (Johannes Marienwerder), which is a unique source of late medieval theology. The aim of this article is to find the key Christological motifs contained in the Exposition of the Apostolic Creed, their presentation and analysis. The conclusions formulated in the last part of the article are an attempt to characterize the Christology practiced by John of Kwidzyn with particular reference to its contemporary fundamental theological form. The Christology of John of Kwidzyn is conditioned by the theme of the creed. Individual articles provide a framework for the analyzes conducted by the Kwidzyn theologian, which take the form of a justification or apology. Extracting Christological threads from the comments, it is easy to see how Master John’s lecture differs from contemporary Christology, both dogmatic and fundamental. The medieval theologian conducts Christological analyzes on the margins of his commentaries. Therefore, this Christology does not have a comprehensive form, but is focused on the motifs present in the Confession of Faith. The Christological motifs present in the Expositio Symboli Apostolorum of John of Kwidzyn allow us to define this form of Christology as deeply biblical, integral, reaching back to the scholastic method, recalling such doctors of the Church as St. Augustine or Saint Tomasz, who has a clear soteriological orientation.

RELIGIOZNO VEROVANJE I MODALITETI TOLERANCIJE U LIBERALNOM DRUŠTVU

Author(s): Aleksandar Fatić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2013

The paper discusses three aspects of belonging to religious systems of belief within a modern liberal society, namely (1) the sincerity and consistency of belief, (2) the possibility of exteriorization of belief through broader social interactions or transactions, and (3) the relationship between religious belief and the modern concept of affirmative tolerance, or affirmation of differences, which has become a pronounced public policy in multicultural liberal societies. The author argues that, while negative tolerance allows sincere religious belief to flourish in the private sphere and for benevolence to be shown to those who are seen as mistaken in their beliefs, affirmative tolerance opens an array of logical issues. The demand to extend potential substantive validation to opposed beliefs produces the ricochet effect of de-validating one’s own beliefs. This creates difficulties for religious communities when issues at stake are beliefs that, in the respective belief-systems, are definitive of the moral goodness and moral badness. Upon a more careful examination of the logical relations between the soteriological promises characteristic of what is sometimes called the ‘substantive’ layer of religiousness, on the one hand, and the public expectation of a tolerant coexistence of religious communities on a social level, on the other hand, it becomes clear that the tolerance required can only be a negative tolerance. Any expectation of affirmative tolerance de-values the soteriological script of the respective system of religious belief, and is thus likely to lead to serious disturbances in a liberal context of multi-cultural coexistence. The author argues that the recent political announcements of a ‘failure of the multicultural experiment’ are caused by the aggressive pursuit of ‘affirmative tolerance’ rather than by any in-built intolerance of others in any of the large religious belief systems now prevalent in the liberal democratic world.

Intelligenza artificiale e umanesimo di fraternità

Author(s): Martín Carbajo-Núñez / Language(s): Italian Issue: 25/2024

This article presents some of the «exciting opportunities and grave risks» of artificial intelligence in light of the recent magisterium of Pope Francis. This is not an easy task, as the term «AI» refers to a «galaxy of different realities» and there is not a single definition of it. Recently there has been a qualitative leap with generative AI (1st part). Its challenges must be addressed at the legislative and ethical levels (2nd part). More specifically, the Pope urges the adoption of a humanism of fraternity inspired by Francis of Assisi (3rd part).

Wielkie formy muzyczne jako miejsce teologicznej pamięci o Świętych

Author(s): Piotr Towarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2024

The presented article is a study summarising the research in aspectual hagiology (cf. K. Parzych-Blakiewicz) conducted by the author over the past ten years. It brings together collections of great musical forms dedicated to the saints (mass propria, masses, motets, cantatas, oratorios, operas) collected in original catalogues. The collected material is divided into four groups of compositions, which are dedicated to: 1. Blessed Virgin Mary; 2. Saint Joseph; 3. holy women: Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Teresa of Avila; 4. holy men: apostle James the Greater, Martin of Tours, Cyril and Methodius, and Hyacinth of Poland. The author proves that the saints are the subject of interest for the creators of great musical forms not only in the past, but also today. Contemporary music thus constitutes a theological place in this area (loci theologici, cf. M. Cano, S.C. Napiórkowski). It is an environment in which the memory of the saints lives on and inspires. This inspiration of contemporary music by the saints also becomes a kind of apologia of Christianity (cf. J. Ratzinger). The profiles of selected saints presented in the collected catalogues, based on great musical forms dedicated to them, complement their image, shaped by historians, liturgists, theologians of spirituality, hagiologists, as well as by popular piety and art: literature, painting, sculpture and film.

Śpiew w Triduum Paschalnym z perspektywy reformy liturgicznej na przykładzie parafialnego chóru w Klewkach

Author(s): Sławomir Ropiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2024

Since 1989 the four-voice mixed choir named after Elzbieta Golebiowska has been active in the Roman Catholic parish of St Lawrence in Klewki (the Warmian Archdiocese). On the example of the collection of chants of this ensemble analysed in this article, we can see the liturgical-musical changes that occur in the celebration of the Paschal Triduum, especially in communities far removed from the cathedral model. In the repertoire of the choir from Klewki we can see a tendency to abandon Gregorian chant and chants referring to Cecilian ideas, common in performance practice as late as the first half of the last century. The collection of pieces prepared by the choristers from Klewki for the Paschal Triduum celebrations is dominated by the repertoire originating from the academic environment of the Dominicans in Krakow and the style represented by contemporary composers of sacred music and conductors animating nationwide liturgical-music workshops. In accordance with church legislation, the choir in Klewki contributes to the celebrations of the entire congregation, and the polyphonic compositions it performs are thematically integrated into the liturgical action. The main theological content of the post-Vatican II reformed liturgy of the Paschal Triduum can be distinguished in these chants: The Eucharist as a banquet of love, the redemptive death of Jesus Christ on the cross and the paschal joy of the baptised at the Lord’s resurrection.

Zakaz jarmarku na Zielone Świątki pod opactwem łysogórskim w świetle przywileju Kazimierza Jagiellończyka z 1468 roku

Author(s): Krzysztof Bracha / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

One of the more interesting documents concerned with the history of the Łysa Góra Benedictine Abbey from Święty Krzyż in the Middle Ages, particularly the inner life of the monastery and the relations between the monastery and outer world, is the privilege granted by King Casimir IV Jagiellon of 1468, which moved the Pentecost fairs from the neighborhood of the Łysa Góra Abbey to the nearby Nowa Słupia. The paper is devoted to the analysis of that document, particularly the attempt to answer the question about the reasons for moving the fair. Previous research has not accounted for that clearly enough. Interpretations have vacillated between criticism of the obsolete pagan folklore of Pentecost celebrations, and Benedictine objection to the bothersome noise of the singing and dancing at the fair. The author is inclined to conclude that there were several reasons for moving the event, the major one being the internal reform of the monastery, a need to calm down and draw away from the abbey the distracting noise, play, dance, fights, quarrels and any other enormitates et deordinaciones incompliant with the dignity of the festival whose proprium was reconciliation and harmony, spiritual concentration, meditation, finally updating the calendar in connection with changing the name of the abbey from the Holy Trinity to the Wood of the True Cross.

O kielichu miłości św. Jana Apostoła, czyli o nieco zapomnianej i innej tradycji świętojańskiej

Author(s): Wiesław Pawlak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

The paper presents the history of one of the forms of the worship of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: blessing and administering wine to the congregation on the day of liturgical remembrance of that saint (27 December). Based on historical sources, particularly liturgical books, it can be said that the custom had reached Poland from German-speaking countries in the 15th century, became widespread in the 16th and 17th centuries and is also occasionally practiced nowadays. Though source documents mention evidence of the popularity of that ceremony in the past centuries, literary and paraliterary evidence is sparse. It includes the carol Mesyjasz przyszedł na świat prawdziwy from the late 16th or 17th century and a sermon by Walerian Gutowski from the collection Panegiryczne niektóre dyskursy duchowne (Cracow 1675), which are presented in more detail. In the opinion of the author of this paper, the analysis of the relatively sparse and scattered sources on blessing the wine for the celebration of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist proves there is a need for further more extensive research on the worship and presence of that saint in the culture of former (pre-partition) Poland.

Nazwy zrzeszeń katolickich działających w archidiecezji przemyskiej

Author(s): Ewa Horyń,Ewa Zmuda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

This study, in addition to a brief historical outline of the history of the Archdiocese of Przemyśl – from the time of its foundation to the present day, presents anonymous material, which consists of the names of Catholic associations operating in the metropolis. The characteristics of the collected onyms have been narrowed down to their description in terms of structure and semantics. Attention was also paid to the function of the studied names. As the analysis showed, in addition to the nominative and indicative function, they primarily serve the function of characterizing the recipients, but also the inclusion, evaluative and even „advertising” function.

Tomasz Dariusz Mames, "Oświata mariawitów w latach 1906-1935", Wydawnictwo DiG, edition la rama, Warszawa - Bellerive-sur-Allier 2016, ss. 304

Author(s): Tomasz Pudłocki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

Modlitwa św. Anny „o potomstwo” w objawieniu mistycznym św. Brygidy Szwedzkiej

Author(s): Marta Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2024

The Bathing Women of the Old Testament: An Iconographical Research into the Medieval Imagery of Susanna and Bathsheba

Author(s): Mattie van den Bosch / Language(s): English Issue: 15/2024

Something we have known since the beginning of mankind is the act of bathing. It is used to clean not only the body, but also the soul. Water has a high ritual function, especially within Christianity. The two main bathing women of the Old Testament are Susanna and Bathsheba. Whereas for some the act of bathing is a small part of their story, for Susanna and Bathsheba it is the most important event of their narratives.These women have been the topic of many discussions within the theological and art. historical field. Susanna, seen as the perfect example of a pious woman, has been praised during the entire period of the Middle ages, while Bathsheba has often been characterised as seductive, or possibly sexual. However, when looking at the way the two women are depicted in the late Middle Ages, we see both ladies illustrated in almost the exact same manner. Why would two women who are interpreted so differently, be portrayed the same way?

Obhajoba pluralitnej koncepcie kresťanskej filozofie (kritická revízia Seifertovho katafatického prístupu na pozadí diskusie z 1930)

Author(s): Ján Hrkút / Language(s): Slovak Issue: Supplement/2024

The term of ,Christian philosophy‘ is less traditional than often assumed. It was not until the 1930s that the term became the subject of a significant and intense debate. This controversy elicited a range of responses, including outright rejection of the term as a contradictio in adiecto (a contradiction in terms), alongside more moderate interpretations that sought to rehabilitate and redefine its meaning. This study aims to trace the historical development of this debate and to engage with a contemporary interpretation offered by Josef Seifert, characterized as a cataphatic approach to the concept. The primary objective is to critically analyze Seifert's position while revisiting the broader discourse on Christian philosophy, ultimately striving for a more coherent and accessible definition of the term.

EIGENTLICHKEIT UND UNEIGENTLICHKEIT DER RELIGION IM AUSGANG VON HEIDEGGER

Author(s): Virgilio Cesarone / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2009

This work aims to investigate the possibility of critiquing a religion with regard to its authenticity/inauthenticity. Where this possibility is found to exist, Heiddeger's existential analytics will be employed to understand the phenomenon of religion. Ultimately, the criteria of existential analytics themselves will be put under scrutiny.

DZIENNIK BPA MIKOŁAJA SASINOWSKIEGO (CZ. 3)

Author(s): Wojciech Guzewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

„Przytomnie patrzeć na dzieje”

Author(s): Grzegorz Kucharczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

Artykuł prezentuje zarys problematyki związanej z postrzeganiem przez Prymasa Wyszyńskiego dziejów ojczystych jako istotnego elementu w uprawianej przezeń pedagogice narodowej i katolickiej. Ten aspekt nauczania Prymasa Tysiąclecia należy traktować również jako sprzeciw wobec wysiłków podejmowanych przez komunistyczny reżim, które zmierzały do uczynienia z programów szkolnych i podręczników w zakresie historii instrumentu ideologicznej indoktrynacji w duchu marksistowskim. Wskazując na stałe – od chrztu Mieszka I w 966 roku – kulturowe związki Polski z cywilizacją zachodnią (łacińską) kardynał Wyszyński sprzeciwiał się tym wysiłkom. W podobnym świetle należy widzieć afirmowanie przez Prymasa Tysiąclecia polskich zrywów niepodległościowych, w tym Powstania Warszawskiego z 1944 roku. Kardynał Wyszyński zwracał uwagę wiernych na biografie i czyny wybitnych polskich biskupów, władców, ludzi pióra, którzy umacniali kulturową tożsamość Polaków jako „narodu ochrzczonego”.

O MOGUĆNOSTI(MA) ISTORIJE FILOZOFIJE DANAS

Author(s): Predrag Milidrag / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2006

The article discusses the philosophical presuppositions of the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline on the example of the problem of interpreting mutually incoherent claims of a philosopher. The conclusion is that the constitution of these presuppositions is onto-theo-logical. The importance of the criteria of coherence and comprehensiveness for historic philosophical interpretation is analyzed. Finally, the idea of the possibility of a postmetaphysical history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline is exposed, viewed as the accumulation of understandings of various paths - followed and not followed alike - found in past philosophers.