The Bosnian Tetraevangelium from Vrutok

Author(s): Lejla Nakaš / Language(s): English Issue: 67-68/2015

The Bosnian Tetraevangelium from Vrutok belongs to the Popović family from the village of Vrutok near Gostivar. There are modern marginal notes associated with this family surname dating from the beginning of the last century, when Prokopi¬je Popović, a graduand of the Skopje Teachers’ College, signed the manuscript to mark it as his property, while, in 1927, one of his heirs, Damjan Popović, signed folio 147b. The last owner, Dobrivoj Popovski, gave permission for the manuscript to be re¬corded on microfilm a full half-century after its first philological presentation. Not long afterwards it was deposited with the Saint Clement of Ohrid National Library in Skopje.

The Open Door of Heaven: Reflections on the Book of Revelation, chapters 4 and 5

Author(s): Beate Kowalski / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2016

The article deals with the opening vision of the main part of Revelation (Rev 4–5). Together with 21:1–22:7 it frames the visionary narratives. The beginning and the ending visions give insight into heaven: the heavenly throne room in Rev 4–5 and the new heaven in Rev 22:1–22:7. The function, OT and liturgical background of the heavenly throne vision will be presented now.

Raj w kraju Rad. Upadek pierwszych ludzi według Daniiła Charmsa

Author(s): Aleksandra Surdykowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2013

In 1934 Daniil Kharms wrote a poem The Fall, or the Knowledge of God and Evil (with the subtitle “didascalia”), which is a close adaptation of The Fall – a play from The Book of Genesis. The poet, however, creates an utterly different literary space to the one found in the biblical text. Paradise, in which Kharms’ Adam and Eve are living, seems to be concrete and tangible, as if it were human-made. This is the Garden of Eden of which an artist at the beginning of the twentieth century could dream. The aim of this paper is to expose the possible literary sources of such a vision. The article also presents ways in which mythological and biblical narratives which attempt to explaining the origins of the world and the first fall of humankind might be transformed in the poem written by an avant-garde artist.

Sprawozdanie z Konferencji Międzynarodowej „Stones, Tablets and Scrolls. Four Periods of the Formation of the Bible Pontificio Istituto Biblico”, Rzym, 11–13 maja 2017 r.

Author(s): Anna Rambiert-Kwaśniewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Piętno upadku. Wybrane aspekty twórczości Anselma Kiefera

Author(s): Agnieszka Tes / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

Anselm Kiefer has been present on the international art scene for decades. He is ranked among the most outstanding contemporary artists. The significance of his art springs from both the variety and importance of the subjects he treats, in particular the question of the Holocaust, and the diversity of artistic media and originality of formal solutions he employs. His erudite oeuvre derives from German and world history, culture, Bible, Kabbalah, mythology, legends, literature, philosophy, and theories of science. The formula of my article was inspired by the observations on Kiefer’s art articulated in a monograph by Daniel Arasse. I apply elements of analytical and hermeneutic methods to indicate the numerous contexts in which the motif of ‘fall’ appears in Kiefer’s art. I also point to the possibility of various interpretations of this motif. I examine general, formal qualities of Kiefer’s oeuvre and analyze some chosen artworks he authored, e.g., Fallen Pictures, Icarus, Resurrexit, Winter Forest, The Breaking of the Vessels, and Starfall. The motif that comes to the fore in Kiefer’s art is primarily that of the Holocaust and of the possibility of representation ‘after Auschwitz.’ Referring to particular works of the artist, I highlight the issue of the continuation of the myth in the present in his art in order to show how the works in question derive from the antique, biblical and kabalistic traditions, simultaneously connecting these traditions to the drama of the history of the 20th century. By reference to Kiefer’s artworks already analyzed in Polish literature, as well as to those less known, I indicate the complexity of their inspiration and message, as well as the evolution of Anselm Kiefer’s artistic attitude observed during his career.

SPRAWOZDANIA

Author(s): Marcin Nowicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

1. SPRAWOZDANIE Z DZIAŁALNOŚCI WYŻSZEGO SEMINARIUMDUCHOWNEGO TOWARZYSTWA SALEZJAŃSKIEGO W KRAKOWIEW ROKU SEMINARYJNYM 2017/2018 2. SPRAWOZDANIE Z DZIAŁALNOŚCI WYŻSZEGO SEMINARIUMDUCHOWNEGO TOWARZYSTWA SALEZJAŃSKIEGO W LĄDZIE NAD WARTĄW ROKU SEMINARYJNYM 2017/2018 Reports by: Marcin Nowicki

Kreationistische Schöpfungslehre: Eine Ernst zu Nehmende Alternative zur Evolutionstheorie? Eine Wissenschaftstheoretische Betrachtung

Author(s): Rudolf Kötter / Language(s): German Issue: 18/2012

“Creationism” means a fundamentalist Christian movement which had its origin 80 years ago in the U.S., where the number of followers is still growing. In consequent fidelity to the bible, these circles understand the biblical account of creation literally and try to establish it as a serious alternative to the scientific theory of evolution and cosmology. On the one hand they are trying to make evolutionary theory (as well as cosmology and historical geology) appear scientifically questionable by posing its open problems and unresolved issues as fundamental theoretical deficits, on the other hand they want to hedge the biblical creation story by connecting it with scientific arguments. In this way, the theory of evolution should be downgraded to a “doctrine of evolution” and the creation myth upgraded to a “doctrine of creation”. In the eyes of creationists, it is then a matter of fairness that at school the “doctrine of evolution” should be treated to the same extent as the Christian “doctrine of creation”. The paper shows that the creationists ground their criticism of the theory of evolution on a very simplified picture of scientific theory, that either does justice to the actual scientific research programs in physics, chemistry or biology, nor gives a background for reflecting the difference between the justification of a scientific law and its application. In contrast to the theory of evolution, the creationist doctrine of creation has no scientific research program at all, since the creation story is an illustration of the historical process which can not exposed to scientific criticism, because this would mean ultimately blasphemy. The rejection of the principle of actualism by the creationists actually implies the rejection of any scientific research program to explain processes in natural history. To speak of “Creation Science” is thus a mere rhetorical trick.

Hegel i ,,Novi zavet”

Author(s): Slobodan Sadžakov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 5-6/2006

This paper aims to enlighten some aspects of Hegel’s analylisis of the ,,New Testament”. In it’s center is the study of Hegel’s understanding in relation between philosophy and religion, also as the relation between customary and morality.

Novozavetni podstoj Hegelove rasprave o godspodstvu i ropstvu

Author(s): Lazar Vrkatić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2004

Discussion about dialectics of Master and Slave is probably the most disputable in various interpretations of Hegel's philosophy. The basis of this discussion in New Testament has not been taken in consideration yet. Dialectics of Father and Son, i.e. God and Christ from speculative John's Gospel (while synoptic Gospels are empirical and sensual) in Hegel's work is transformed into dialectics master and slave. There is also a polemical part of this discussion, turned towards Aristotele. Hegel's position is being developed as unity of unity (Aristotele's understanding of God) and difference (John's idea of God) in the form of Spirit.

Lectio Divina – važnost riječi božje u životu prezbitera

Author(s): Josip Knežević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2018

The aim of this article is to arrive at a more profound consideration of the Word of the Lord. It is addressed primarily to priests, but also to the lay faithful. The article is divided into three parts. The first part considers the Word of the Lord in the perspective of Scripture and the Second Vatican Council. The second part deals with more practical and pastoral themes centered on the diakonia, that is, serving the Word, which is realized through what is generically described as lectio divina. The practice of lectio divina is an invitation proclaimed by the Church Magisterium. The Church Magisterium strongly and specifically calls on all the lay faithful to acquire through constant reading of the Word of the Lord an elevated knowledge, that is, knowledge of Jesus Christ. Accordingly, this reading is accompanied by a prayer that is intended to establish dialogue between man and God. The third part proposes approaches to reading Scriptural texts through lectio divina, so that the spirituality of the priest can achieve greater intimacy with the Word of the Lord.

Mrtva petlja etičkih odluka

Author(s): Slavoj Žižek / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 28/2018

Oni što prate opskurne spiritualno-kozmološle spekulacije zasigurno su čuli za najpopularniju temu iz te oblasti: kad se tri planete (obično Zemlja, Mjesec i Sunce) poredaju duž iste ose, dešava se neka velika kataklizma, poredak univerzuma se momentalno poremeti i ravnoteža se mora ponovno uspostavljati (kao što se navodno trebalo desiti 2012.). Ne vrijedi li nešto slično za godinu 2017., koja je trostruka obljetnica: 2017. ne obilježava se samo sto godina od Oktobarske revolucije, nego i 150 godina od prvog izdanja Marxova Kapitala (1867.) i 50 godina od takozvane Šangajske komune kad su, na vrhuncu Kulturne Revolucije, građani Šangaja odlučili doslovno slijediti Maov poziv i izravno preuzeti vlast, svrgnuvši vladavinu Komunističke partije (zbog čega je Mao žurno odlučio ponovno uspostaviti reda, poslavši vojsku da zgazi Komunu). Ne obilježavaju li ova tri događaja tri faze komunističkog pokreta: Marxov Kapital naznačio je teorijsku osnovu komunističke revolucije, Oktobarska revolucija bila je prvi uspješan pokušaj svrgavanja buržoaske države i izgradnje novog društvenog i ekonomskog poretka, dok Šangajska komuna važi za najradikalniji pokušaj neposredne realizacije najizazovnijeg aspekta komunističke vizije, ukidanje državne vlasti i uspostavljanje direktne narodne volje, organizirane kroz mrežu lokalnih komuna…

Utjecaj rodne ideologije na ekologiju čovjekove spolne naravi. Kršćansko-teološko antropološki osvrt

Author(s): Marijo Volarević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2019

The author tries to show how today man becomes more and more aware not only of the endangerment of man’s environment but of the endangerment of man’s innate sexual nature, as well. Man, created in the image of God as male and female (cf. Gen 1:26-27), is called not only to act responsibly towards the created reality God has given him, but also towards the image of God that is mirrored in him, equally in man and woman. In the same way that through history man hasn’t been responsibly governing the created world, of which he is a guardian and not a master, in a similar way today, with the help of gender ideology, he wants to dominate over the sexual nature that was gifted to him. With the article the author seeks to warn, in accordance with Christian-biblical-theological anthropology, about the fundamental defects of gender ideology which through theoretical technicism penetrates the very essence of man’s sexual nature, thus directly affecting the ecology of human nature and the ecology of family.

Ks. Roman Bartnicki, Jezus w drodze do śmierci i zmartwychwstania. Komentarz do Ewangelii Marka 8,27–16,20. Część I: Mk 8,27–13,37, Warszawa: Instytut Papieża Jana Pawła II, 2018, ISBN 978-83-65198-50-1

Author(s): Janusz Lemański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 26/2019

Marcin Majewski, Pięcioksiąg odczytany na nowo. Przesłanie autora kapłańskiego (P) i jego wpływ na powstanie Pięcioksięgu, Kraków: Uniwersytet Jana Pawła II – Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2018, ISBN 978-83-7438-651-7

Author(s): Janusz Lemański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 26/2019

ÁROKHÁTY BÉLA – AZ ORGONATERVEZŐ

Author(s): Károly Fekete / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

This study present Béla Árokháty’s biography, who was not only a musician but also a minister leading and inspiriting his flock. It also highlights that the people rebelled against him because of the novelties he adopted. Béla Árokháty was convinced that the Protestant musical treasure must become accessible to all. In several of his writings, he accepted the rules regarding religious church music and instrumentation, but from the beginning of his religious musicological activity and, until the last, his aim was to favour the widespread adoption of church music in the Reformed Protestant service. Very few of his contemporaries recognized his personality and mission, however he was the one who launched the reform of the musical culture in the Protestant communities of the 20th century. Béla Árokháty’s exceptional initiatives and his achievements have largely contributed to raising Hungarian Reformed religious music to European standards.

HAJDÚBÖSZÖRMÉNY REFORMÁTUS ORGONÁI

Author(s): Balázs Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

The main churches in Hajdúböszörmény, both of remarkable size inherit two Angster-organs with 3 manuals. The older and bigger organ in the church of Bocskai Square was built 1902 with three manuals and 46 stops. All divisions are constructed with different windchests by using tubular pneumatic action: the great and pedal with cone chest, the second manual with Witzig-type pneumatic windchest and the third manual using the Angster-type pneumatic windchest. This is indeed a unique solution by Angster, later one he never used the Witzig-systhem again, for pneumatic windchests he used the Angster-type pneumatic construction. The organ in the Kálvin Square church was originally built 1899, with slider chests, tracker action and barker lever, pneumatic action for the stops. Angster rebuilt it in 1914, the organ received new Angster-type pneumatic windchests and a new console with roll-player mechanism with three manuals and 38 stops. After several modifications, the organ was reconstructed to its original state in 2014–2016 as the first pneumatic-reconstruction project in Hungary. The Bocskai Square organ is after improper reparations still unplayable, the congregation launched benefit concerts by professionals in November 2018 to gain bigger public attention to this organ-treasure.

LEZÁRÓDÁS ÉS/VAGY FOLYTATÁS. CSOMASZ TÓTH KÁLMÁN MUNKÁSSÁGÁNAK NÉHÁNY KÉRDÉSE ÉS AZ INTERNET

Author(s): Csaba Fekete / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

The Protestant congregations have been singing in the churches from the beginnings but not as the official part of the service. The singing style changed in the 20th century but only in the case of Latin liturgical rites. Singing and the manner of Scripture reading were not similar in the Middle Ages to the Biblical times either. During the centuries, new forms and manners of content expression were adopted by the church. The content and the form were not inseparable. The free-style and set forms of the service, reading and singing for the ministers and the congregation significantly changed. They did not completely break away from the roots, however during the centuries there were several earlier elements that were left aside.In the mid-20th century, Kálmán Csomasz Tóth (1902–1988) wished to stop the process of oblivion by inventorying the Hungarian Protestant airs dating back to the 16th century. And thus, he edited the first Hungarian handbook of this kind. In 2017, another important work by Kálmán Csomasz Tóth was published, namely the air collection known by the profession as RMDT I. It both preserves and creates values, and for this reason, it is our responsibility to preserve it and pass it on by means of today’s modern preservation techniques, namely the Internet.In his study, the author discusses the works that our generation needs to preserve even more so because it sensitively touches upon the current and future use of the Reformed book of chant.

A PRÉDIKÁCIÓ A LITURGIÁBAN

Author(s): Szabolcs Szetey / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

In the present paper, I examine the relationship between preaching and liturgy. I only focus on preaching in the services on Sundays and feasts. First of all, I offer an overview of Hungarian Reformed theoretical and practical liturgical books, service books, and books of liturgics concerning the relationship between preaching and liturgy from the 16th century to the recent days. The importance of preaching overshadows the liturgical function of the sermon; prayers, church music, hymns, and psalms are consequently losing relevance in the worship. The theoretical and practical books emphasize consistently, that the preaching must be presented and regarded as one of the elements of the liturgy/service. Preaching takes place within the service; the sermon has to be based on and contacted all the liturgical elements of the congregation’s worship. Balance between preaching and liturgy should be discovered, and established in order to worthily celebrate our services.

Kryžiaus kelio tema XX a. antrosios pusės Kauno bažnyčių dailėje

Author(s): Robertas Urbonavičius / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 36/2004

The subject of the article is artistic works related to the Stations of the Cross, which were produced by three Lithuanian artists in the second half of the 20th century for churches in Kaunas. Against the background of the history of Lithuanian church art and devotional practice, the article considers their iconography, symbolism and artistic peculiarities, and compares their similarities and differences. The Stations of the Cross took their origin from the Via Dolorosa followed by Jesus Christ and described in the Gospels. The direct meaning is the ritual repetition of the way contemplating the sufferings of the Saviour. The iconography was shaped by the new medieval devotion (devotio moderna), which underlined the greatness and salvational value of Christ’s sufferings.

Kryžiaus kelio tema XX a. antrosios pusės Kauno bažnyčių dailėje

Author(s): Robertas Urbonavičius / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 35/2003

The subject of the article is artistic works related to the Stations of the Cross, which were produced by three Lithuanian artists in the second half of the 20th century for churches in Kaunas. Against the background of the history of Lithuanian church art and devotional practice, the article considers their iconography, symbolism and artistic peculiarities, and compares their similarities and differences. The Stations of the Cross took their origin from the Via Dolorosa followed by Jesus Christ and described in the Gospels. The direct meaning is the ritual repetition of the way contemplating the sufferings of the Saviour. The iconography was shaped by the new medieval devotion (devotio moderna), which underlined the greatness and salvational value of Christ’s sufferings.