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LOOKING TO SUCCEED? FIRST, REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM

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LOOKING TO SUCCEED? FIRST, REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM

Author(s): Barbara Jo Lewis,Hershey H. Friedman / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper posits that the Bible reveals the secret of what it takes for a country (or individual) to prosper. In fact, Moses mentioned the secret several times in the Book of Deuteronomy a few weeks before he died – shortly before the Israelites entered the Promised Land. He even included it in the Ten Commandments which are repeated a second time in Deuteronomy (Moses paraphrased what God had said). He emphasized the importance of “And you shall remember that you were slaves in Egypt.” The United States has to wake up and recognize that it is in trouble. It is falling behind the rest of the world in health, education, and many other measures of well-being. America is only number 1 in incarcerating its citizens and military expenditures. Throughout history, many great empires collapsed. Indeed, the major reason the Soviet Union collapsed was because it became a thoroughly corrupt and immoral country that did not care about its people. A country that thrives is one where the people remember the hardships that their own families had to endure in the past, and then does everything possible for others to succeed.

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Oralność i retoryka świętych ksiąg. Na przykładzie tatarskiego tefsiru – pierwszego przekładu Koranu na język słowiański (polski)

Author(s): Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The article presents, on the basis of a sixteenth-century translation of the Qur’an into Polish, the interpenetration of two planes in revealed books: the rhetorical and the persuasive one. In this context, the article points out the realisation of the directives of classical Arabic rhetoric, including the semantic principle, the principle of clear expression and the principle of sophisticated style. It also indicates the original orality of the Qur’an and the persuasiveness of its message achieved, among other things, by addressing the recipient, the establishment of the us vs. them opposition, the occurrence of evaluative and directive vocabulary, the introduction of colloquial speech, and the use of intensifiers of content. The collected material also demonstrates the complex relation between the scripturalisation of a language and the translation of a sacred text ( the Qur’an ) into Polish.

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Motywacja do przestrzegania Dekalogu w Collatio pierwszej De Praeceptis św. Bonawentury. Próba współczesnego odczytania

Author(s): Krzysztof Niewiadomski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1 (33)/2023

Collationes on the Ten Commandments by St. Bonaventure are a kind of speeches with qualities of spiritual conferences and at the same time of scientific lectures. In the first of them the Seraphic Doctor gives motives for keeping the commandments. The author of the article using the method of analysing this text examines whether the arguments presented by St. Bonaventure are relevant to theology and pastoral practice today. The question posed is answered in the affirmative. This conclusion is based on the sought and demonstrated personalism as well as the rationality of the quoted teaching. The purpose of the article is also to familiarize them with the contemporary reader.

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Moralne aspekty reformy Kurii Rzymskiej w przemówieniach papieża Franciszka do kurialistów w latach 2013-2021

Author(s): Wojciech Kućko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (32)/2022

The purpose of this article is to describe the moral challenges of Pope Francis’ ongoing reform of the Roman Curia, based on an analysis of nine of his speeches to Roman curialists in 2013-2021, which resulted in the publication of the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium in 2022. The text presents the value of the ethical sensitivity of a curial worker and the need to practice certain virtues, the need to combat various problems and ‘diseases’ in curial work, as well as the responsibility of the Roman Curia for the Church itself in its ad intra dimension and for ad extra reality.

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„O, SZCZĘŚLIWA OBLUBIENICO BOGA, DUSZO CZŁOWIEKA SPRAWIEDLIWEGO!” KAZANIA DZIEWIĄTE, DZIESIĄTE I JEDENASTE RYSZARDA ZE ŚWIĘTEGO WIKTORA Z JEGO LIBER EXCEPTIONUM — WSTĘP I PRZEKŁAD

Author(s): Piotr Wilk,Łukasz Libowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXVIII/2022

The main part of this article consists of a translation of three sermons by Richard of Saint-Victor, an author who belonged to a long line of eminent intellectuals connected with the school, which had its roots in the abbey of Saint-Victor near Paris from the twelfth century onwards. These are the ninth, tenth and eleventh sermons contained by Richard in the tenth book of the second part of his encyclopaedic work entitled The Book of Excerpts; this tenth book is a collection of twenty-seven sermons. The proposed translation was preceded by a short introduction.

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HERMANA, DAWNIEJ JUDY, KRÓTKA OPOWIEŚĆ O NAWRÓCENIU WPROWADZENIE I PRZEKŁAD

Author(s): Wojciech PAWŁOWSKI / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXVIII/2022

This article concerns the Opusculum de conversione sua (Little Work about His Conversion), a Latin work written in the middle of the twelfth century attributed to the convert Herman, known as Judah before his conversion. The first part of this research provides a historical introduction to the textual tradition and to the authorship. Then the historical, literary, theological aspects like medieval religious culture, and the meaning of conversion for medieval Christianity, autobiographical genre, language and message of this work are presented. The second part contains the Polish translation of the Opusculum de conversione sua.

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ST. ALBERT THE GREAT, ON RESURRECTION

Author(s): Henryk Anzulewicz / Language(s): German Issue: XXVIII/2022

Review of: St. Albert the Great, On Resurrection. Trans. Irven M. Resnick and Franklin T. Harkins (The Fathers of the Church. Mediaeval Continuation, Vol. 20), Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020, XXII + 335 S. ISBN: 9780813233079.

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(Um)welt-ethos. Creation, ecology and environment in ecumenical perspective

Author(s): Pablo Blanco-Sarto / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2022

Christianity is sometimes considered as guilty of the ecological miscare throughout history. The words ‘economy’, ‘ecology’ and ‘ecumenism’ come from the same word (oikos – house) and remain very close in their respective developments. But Welt-ethos must be preceded by a Welt-logos and by an Um-welt-logos, that means that Nature has her own voice in our relationship with the Planet. This is a counter-intuitive principle in the history of Christianity, whose position has been sometimes ambiguous. An historical approach can help us to understand better these abstract ideas as incarnated in the present moment. This ecumenical and ecological spirituality is lived not only by monks and friars, but also by all believers in Christ, and the theology of creation is an ecumenical meeting-point between all Christians. In this study we will follow here a biblical, historical, ecumenical and comparative methodology, for understanding how was lived this issue in the Christianity, and how must be lived in the future.

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PAN-KRATOS AND PAN-DEMOS FROM A CATECHETICAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Eugen Marius Ioana / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2020

The pandemic that has spread over the contemporary world has some special features, namely: unlike other diseases, it is highly contagious, it is not circumscribed to a particular zone or region, but has covered almost the entire world, even the less circulated areas. We consider this to be an opportunity for the Church, by means of its representatives, to offer the world spiritual remedies for these times and also to reveal, through its spiritual treasure, epistemological clarifications in a worldly heterogeneity. What is needed is an inspired, enlightening catechetical message that can, on the one hand, offer the church a spirit of communion and hope while social distancing or quarantine are imposed, and on the other hand, confirm to the world that Church is working closely with and supporting those caring for the lives of our fellow men. God will surely inspire specialists to offer drug therapies to those in need, however, contemporary man will also need spiritual guides to overcome the negative emotions that unbalance him in such situations.

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SAINT JOSEPH - CALL AND RESPONSE UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

Author(s): Călin-Daniel Paţulea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2022

Joseph is the character of the New Testament who shows a strong and generous faith; thanks to his faith Jesus and his most holy Mother, Mary, are welcomed into human history and fulfill the plan of salvation. He committed himself to perfect and industrious obedience to divine commands, however burdensome and unexpected, manifesting himself as a wise servant of God. He was able to discern the divine will with certainty in very difficult moments. He showed that form of wisdom that made him understand the highest values of life and existence, becoming an intimate participant in the thought of God, in His plans for the salvation and sanctification of the human person. Joseph translated wisdom into a continuous and tireless mission as a father, worker and human instrument involved in the development of the events that brought salvation to all of humanity.

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Semantics of Phrasemes Defining Interpersonal Relations in the Hebrew and Polish Linguistic Image of the World (Based on the Material from the Books of Prophets)

Author(s): Jolanta Szarlej / Language(s): English Issue: 39/2022

In the course of her research, the Authoress aims to show the fundamental differences in the way the linguistic image of the world is constructed in different languages (here: Polish and Classical Hebrew) at the level of syntactic structures. This component of the linguistic image of the world less frequently constitutes the object of research in the Polish cognitive tradition than, for example, lexis, which is why the Authoress considers the collected phrasemes and the meanings they convey to be particularly worth highlighting. The linguistic material that forms the basis for the research comes from the part of the Hebrew Bible called Nübî´îm, and the syntactic structures themselves are selected from the biblical material with the noun vyai ´iš, which defines man in the Bible as an individual. The structures presented here, built from a combination of the nouns xa', [;re, vyai and the prepositions B., l., l[;, la,, ta,, K. express complex and varied interpersonal relations: there are many images of closeness, cooperation, care, unanimity, but also feuds, conflicts, ruthless struggle and rivalry, with which the history of Israel was marked. Semantically, they complement the linguistic image of the intricate interpersonal relationships portrayed on the pages of the Bible.

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WOLNOŚĆ RELIGIJNA JAKO WARTOŚĆ

Author(s): Marek Szulakiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

Religious persecution in the modern world no longer takes the form of negation of a religion and particular religious beliefs. Instead, believers are subject to harassment for being religious at all. This new form of persecution points to the need for a concern for religious freedom which would enable the cultural presence of religion to be restored. Analyses of religious freedom are usually made from a legal and political perspective. The present article, however, addresses problems of metaphysical, anthropological, and theological justifi cations of religious freedom. The stages of incorporating freedom into religion are shown by describing the passage from the attitude of hostility towards it, to the idea of tolerance, to the implementation of religious freedom. The author also presents transformation of the ideas of God, man, and truth which occurs when freedom becomes a religious category

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BIBLICAL SOURCES OF THE BARTOLOMEU VALERIU ANANIA NEW TESTAMENT (1993) TRANSLATION

Author(s): Cătălin Varga / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

The article addresses to romanian biblical scholars preoccupied with the history of biblical translations. We search for the biblical sources (editions and critical editions) of „Anania” translation of the Sacred Text in order to establish the dependence of the authorized versions in Europe and America. The most common francophone editions used by translator was the following: La Bible de Jérusalem (Paris, 1973); La Bible. Traduction Oecuménique (Paris, 1978); La Bible. Traduction par Émile Osty (Paris, 1973). We identify La Bible. Traduction Oecuménique (TOB) as the key one. The most common Anglophone editions used by translator was the following: The Holy Bible. King James Authorized Version (Oxford, 1977); The New Oxford Annotated Bible (Oxford, 1977); Good News Bible (New York, 1978) – with the preeminence of KJV edition. These two biblical translations (TOB and KJV) influenced the Romanian translator in his entire process of translating the original Greek text.

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MAN AS AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUAL REFLECTION

Author(s): Marius Ionuț Haba / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

Social relations are, by all means, extremely important for a man in life. The Holy Scripture says, for that matter, that man was created by God for this specific purpose of being in communion with his Creator and his fellows. Communion with God is achieved through prayer and with people by maintaining relationships grounded in common high ideals. As regards Prayer, the Holy and Divine Liturgy is par excellence the sacred reality in which man communes with God and his fellows. Now, as to communion and social relations between people, this must be based – according to specialists –on concrete help, emotional support and offering one’s company. It was even shown that highly qualitative social relations have a positive impact on human life. Man’s constant and natural desire of being in the company of his fellows is actually aimed at sharing experiences and receiving, also, what the others have to share, and since life itself is a mystery, man has always questions which are posed by his experiences. That is why looking for guidance is an ontological need. From this perspective, one of the most important advisors in a Christian’s life is the spiritual father, who is the only one able to help him in the process of spiritual growth given the fact that such a spiritual director went in some measure through the fire of temptation and therefore acquired a certain experience in this sense.

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THE TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLY CHURCH IN THE VISION OF METROPOLITAN NICODIM MUNTEANU

Author(s): Petru-Ionuț Irimia / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

In the present study we want to present the teaching of the Metropolitan of Moldavia and Suceava, from the period 1934-1939, Nicodim Munteanu as it is found in his speeches, related to the divine-human institution - the Church, mysteriously founded by the Savior Jesus Christ through the sacrifice His from the cross, and in a visible way at the time of the descent of the Holy Spirit, on Pentecost, when following the sermon of the Holy Apostle Peter, 3000 souls were baptized (Act. Apost. 2, 41). Metropolitan Nicodim Munteanu, a tireless writer and scholar with experience especially in translations, known as a translator of the Bible and numerous works belonging to Russian literature, more than 100, considered that the mission of the Church is not only to sanctify the faithful and their lives, but also to teach them, to pass on knowledge that will also be useful for their temporal life on earth. In his speeches, he made an analogy between everything that the Church preaches, what is found and happens inside it with everything that promotes, is found and happens in the school, the comparisons and connections made by Hierarch Nicodim having the role of emphasized the importance and irreplaceable role of the Church in society and in the lives of believers.

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Viena grāmata divās politiskās sistēmās: Bībele latviešu valodā 20. gadsimta 50. un 60. gados

Author(s): Valdis Tēraudkalns / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 50/2023

This article examines translation and publishing of the Bible and its parts during the Cold War in Soviet Latvia and Latvian diaspora in the West. The novelty of this article lies in the use of archive files from the Church of England archive in Lambeth Palace (London), as well as attention to topics like the Bible publishing and distribution in Soviet Latvia both legally and underground, the Bible as a performative political tool in the context of West-East confrontations. The Bible in the Soviet period was a book that did not exist in the public space because it was not available in stores and libraries, but at the same time it was a tool of Soviet propaganda. On the other hand, in the West, the Bible distribution in the countries of the Eastern Bloc was one of the controversial topics. It was questioned whether it is ethical to cooperate with governmental and non-governmental organizations (including religious ones) in these countries and what channels of distribution of banned books (legal or illegal) should be used.

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The Notion of Border in the Bible

Author(s): Nana Bakhsoliani / Language(s): English Issue: 9/2023

The history of the formation of state borders can be found the Old Testament. In ancient times, neighboring countries were separated from each other by natural and difficult-to- cross borders such as forests, rivers.... Making/defining a border in the books of the Bible is an act of God. Border could be a monument, a mountain, a cave, sea, village, desert. After leaving Egypt, Jewish people had to cross the desert road to enter the Promised Land. This had a symbolic and mystical significance. The people encamped in the desert “near the mountain of God”. The Mount Sinai was called Desert Sinai, thus the mount took the name of the desert –Mount Sinai, Sinai Desert. The border in both singular and plural indicated the outline of the country, “Side”, “coast”, “limb”, “mouth”, “limit”, “rock”, “lip” (as a natural border) are found in many passages of the Old Testament in the sense of border or territory, thus, “limit”, “mouth”, “edge”, “end”, “hand”, were used in various applications, both literally and figuratively, and denoted spatial and ideological concepts. The Border established divine order within itself, that is civilization which was separated from outer lands and the peoples living there by national identity and religion, border separated and confronted two worlds, and at the same time, it was a paradoxical place where they connected with each other.

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Sources of the Encyclical „Ut unum sint”

Author(s): Stanislav Přibyl / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2022

John Paul II’s encyclical Ut unum sint on commitment to ecumenism was published 30 years after the ground-breaking ecumenism decree of Vatican II Unitatis redintegratio. It was meant to present a summary of everything the Catholic Church and its partners achieved in the field of ecumenical efforts. However, the article does not list these achievements but discusses the very fundamentals of Catholic identity, namely, how the Catholic Church is to remain faithful to itself in developing ecumenical dialogue with other churches and ecclesial communities. The article thus provides a detailed analysis of the way the encyclical uses the basic sources of faith, that is, the logia of the Sacred Scripture, Church Fathers and the Magisterium. As one might expect, the documents of the Magisterium that are quoted are the documents of Vatican II because this council represents a real turning point in the relations of the Catholic Church towards ecumenism. The article also considers the role of the canon law for ecumenism because both codices of canon law as well as the ecumenical directory represent major tools for the realisation of ecumenical efforts.

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SFÂNTUL VASILE DE LA POIANA MĂRULUI-ANIMATORUL ISIHASMULUI PE PĂMÂNTUL ROMÂNESC

Author(s): Sorin Cosma / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4-6/2022

We consider it necessary to make an overview in order to highlight the spiritual meaning of hesychasm in its historical development, as well as the hesychast life that Abbot Vasile came here to find on Romanian soil from Ukraine. As a result, we will open the present presentation with some preliminary briefs regarding prayer as a theme of Hesychast spirituality; followed by a brief historical overview of hesychasm, and continued with a review of hesychast life in the Romanian Principalities, which Abbot Vasile animated, continued, deepened and passed on to his disciple , Paisie from Neamț, then established with its own valences in Cernica and Russian spirituality.

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PREZENTĂRI BIBLIOGRAFICE

Author(s): Ionel Popescu,Florin-Corneliu Popovici,Constantin Cilibia,Stefan Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4-6/2022

Review of: Ioan Mitropolitul Banatului, Ruga si truda la candela credintei stramosesti, Sfântu Gheorghe, Editura. Eurocarpatica, 2022, 484 pp; Gheorghe Rancu - Bodrog - Istoria bisericilor ortodoxe din Almaj, Ediția a doua revăzută și adăugită, Ed. Hoffman, Caracal, 2019, 561 pp.; Sorina Mihaela Botiș ,,Mantuirea universala si personala”, Editura Napoca Star, Cluj-Napoca, 2021;

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