SFÂNTUL LIBORIU DE PADERBORN, SFÂNTUL CARE A ÎNFRĂȚIT DOUĂ ORAȘE EUROPENE ÎNCĂ DIN EVUL MEDIU

Author(s): Alexandru Nan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10-12/2019

A bishop in the Le Mans Bishopric in the 4th century, Saint Liborius distinguished himself by a life lived in parsimony and a fruitful missionary activity. He is held responsible for the building of several churches in the Le Mans Bishopric, also being worshipped as a passionate rescuer of the sick and poor. His relics were moved to Paderborn in the 9th century, to later become the patron of this Bishopric. By moving his Holy Relics, the two cities concluded a twinning deed between the two European cities, which is also held today. Saint Liborius is celebrated on the 23rd of July, in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

SIEĆ EKUMENICZNA W SPOŁECZEŃSTWIE SIECI

ŚWIATOWE FORUM CHRZEŚCIJAŃSKIE (GLOBAL CHRISTIAN FORUM) JAKO EKUMENICZNA ODPOWIEDŹ NA NOWY KSZTAŁT SPOŁECZEŃSTWA GLOBALNEGO

Author(s): Piotr Kopiec / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 13/2014

According to many theologians, ecumenism desperately needs new patterns to spark off struggle for the Christian unity. In the common opinion, ecumenical achie-vements up to now come out rather poorly. It partly results from the theological diffi-culties, which often seem to be the stumbling blocks of many dialogues. Yet, another cause that has to be stressed, stems from various transformations of the global Chri-stianity and global societies. In terms of demography, Christianity has clearly shifteds to the South with all the consequencses of this trend. Societies transform economical¬ly and socially towards new sociological models which are still being described. Vario¬us commentators of the contemporary culture see the condition of today’s human being as apathetic and extremely individual. These trends set a new background for Christian Churches as well as for ecumenical leaders and circles. Global Christian Forum may be recognized as an answer to the new social and cultural order of the world. It is intended to be a Christian, ecumenical network which could flexibly face various tendencies of the contemporary society, economy and culture.

Sloboda, pravda i mir. Budućnost reformacijske baštine u dijalogu sa suvremenom apokaliptičkom teologijom

Author(s): Darko Pirija / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 04/152/2018

The further affirmation of Reformation theological legacy in contemporary European cultures requires its creative reinterpretation in order to make meaningful the original value of its fundamental theological content and at the same time respond to new questions and dilemmas that emanate from a stratified cultural habitus of the late modernity. Substantial redirecting of the Reformation theology should follow the logos of God’s reality rather than the logos of modernity within theoretical, methodological and epistemological boundaries that will warrant a more even-handed and fruitful dialogue between theology and culture. To bring to fruition the ideals of peace, freedom and justice on the basis of faith in Christ’s transforming love, it needs to be situated in the contemporary apocalyptic theology that takes seriously the traditional reformation doctrine of sin and repentance and brings together the present and future aspect of Christ’s apocalypse of freedom, peace and justice. By living a new life in Christ, Christian communities can testify to the fullness of life based on the faith in the transforming effects of God’s presence in history and on the hope in the final dissolution of evil in God’s promised future.

Sojka, Jerzy. 2016. Widzialne Słowo. Sakramenty w luterańskiej „Księdze zgody”. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe ChAT. Ss. 390.

Author(s): Tadeusz Jacek Zieliński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

Sola Scriptura

Author(s): Monika Kassner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2017

What does a convert feel after the change of religious denomination? Some consider themselves freed from many duties and obligations. Others, through the simplicity of the rites and the legibility of the evangelical faith, feel the closeness of God and feel stronger in their faith.

Sola Scriptura – eine Anfrage an das Bibelverständnis Martin Luthers

Author(s): Wilhelm Schwendemann / Language(s): German / Issue: 3/2017

Martin Luther was pretty much in opposition to traditions of the church. Th is is because he took the Scripture as sole foundation and basis for (his) Christian faith – “sola scriptura”. “His understanding of Christ as well as his understanding of Paul’s doctrine of justifi cation” was of central importance for Luther. Reading the Bible and listening to biblical texts had releasing and liberating effects on him. Yet, people have to be aware of the danger that these scriptural texts can be interpreted exclusively in a way that one forgets about the meaning of Israel’s history and faith for Christianity. Th at was one of Martin Luther’s great misunderstandings. He was in opposition to the Jewish exegesis because he thought that this could have clouded the believer’s perspective on the Jesus’ message of salvation as well as on the message of Christ as revealed in the First Testament. Experiencing liberation through the proclamation of the Gospel fi rst of all implies the focus on God’s saving work. Th is again should neither be understood exclusively nor inclusively but in a communicative and dialogic form. It is not important which religious denomination people belong to, but rather that they can trust God like Abraham did.

Sola scriptura a prawosławne pojmowanie Pisma Świętego i Tradycji Świętej

Author(s): Wsiewołod Konach / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2017

The article entitled “Sola scriptura and Orthodox Understanding of Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition”, presents the understanding of Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition in the Orthodox Church. Contact between Protestants and the Orthodox, established in the second half of the 16th century, fostered theological dialogue which is still conducted within the scope of the Joint Orthodox-Lutheran Commission. Th is Commission has assembled at joint meetings every two years since 1981. One of the controversial issues the commission faces is the understanding of Holy Tradition, as the Lutheran principle of sola scriptura rejects it and gives Holy Scripture indisputable authority. In Orthodox theology, the question of authority does not play a great role and is above all not conceived in a legal sense. Th e Church is a Human-Divine reality, a “new creation”, and a refl ection of the unity of the Holy Trinity. As such, the truth is found there, but it is not contained in any particular carrier of “authority”, but rather appears in various forms of the life of the Church. In the Orthodox understanding, God reveals Himself in Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition. Th ese realities do not exclude each other, are not contradictory, and neither do they diff er in importance. Th e Church has the truth handed down through the Apostles, and it can be preached while not being limited to that which is written in the Holy Scriptures. Scripture is only a part of the life of the Church, one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Scripture is given particular honour; however, it does not possess absolute authority. Holy Scripture is not above the Church, because it lives and is understood within the Church. Th e Church fi nds itself in a mutual relation with Holy Tradition, which Vladimir Lossky describes as the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church, life that communicates to every member of the Body of Christ the possibility of hearing, accepting and knowing the Truth in its authentic light, and not in the natural light of human reason. Holy Tradition is expressed in such forms as Holy Scripture, the teachings of the Holy Fathers, the decisions of the ecumenical and local councils, the Divine Liturgy, iconography and architecture. Truth is expressed in the Church in various forms: written, oral, illustrative and symbolic, however, Tradition connects within itself all of these forms in a unique manner and enables man to accept the truth. It does not impose on the human conscience any formal guarantees of the correctness of faith, but rather provides the opportunity to see the hidden witness of authentic faith. Orthodox theology perceives the life and experience of the Church, in other words Tradition as its theological source. Holy Scripture is the main form of expression of Tradition, which in turn performs the function of the hermeneutical principle in the contemporary interpretation of Scripture. Th eology does not confi ne itself to Scripture, the writings of the Holy Fathers and other sources, but draws its knowledge from the hidden life of the Church in the Holy Spirit, the life directed towards fulfi lment in the Kingdom of God (cf. Eph. 3:17-19). The Orthodox understanding of Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition radically diff ers from the Lutheran principle of sola scriptura.

Special features of the Evangelical community in the Soviet Union: difficulties of co-existence in conditions of harassment and discrimination

Author(s): Vera Kliueva,Nadezhda Beliakova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

We analyze practices of communication which were formed within the official Evangelical communities in the late USSR. Representatives of various Protestant denominations were forced to become members of the communities. Such religious heterogeneity was related to the Soviet policy, which brought similar, but theologically different denominations to coexist in a single religious and organizational space. Both compromise and conflict practices of communication were typical for either of the denominations. For example, the Pentecostals could refuse ecstatic prayer practices and participate in joint religious services, or they might consider a joint service as an opportunity to preach among the Baptists. The latter could also allow the Pentecostals to participate in the worship or to deny them such opportunity, though formally they were members of the community. The case under consideration is interesting because it shows conflict communication at the grassroots level (at the level of one church, one community) between the two “religious rivals”: the Baptists and the Pentecostals. They both perceived their coexistence in a single religious space as a forced one. Moreover, the Pentecostals, as seen by the Baptists, were a potential threat to the unity of the community because of their religious practices of baptism with the Holy Spirit and glossolalia. In addition, the Pentecostals undermined the system of official authority with their religious practices, claiming that the words of those who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit had an advantage over the statements of the senior elders and the church leaders. In turn, the Pentecostals considered the Baptists as already prepared to perceive Pentecostal ideas, and they “proselytized” among them. Moreover, so, the conflict became the most vivid form of their communication. We approach the issue of why co-existence was so difficult for the Baptists and the Pentecostals; how believers of different denominations treated each other; who initiated conflicts, what the ways to resolve a conflict were, what part religious leaders and activists played in resolution or escalation of a conflict. The primary way to resolve a conflict was a rupture of relations and secession of the Pentecostals from an officially registered Baptist community. Another way was a punishment (sometimes, exclusion from the Church membership) of certain believers who adhered to the Pentecostal creeds. At the same time, the state, which destroyed mechanisms of legal change of leadership in a religious community, performed a certain role in that situation. Of course, there were communities where the believers had no conflicts, as they managed to find an opportunity to come to a compromise, maintaining their religious identities. However, they were much less than those communities which had tensions in one way or another. Ego documents (letters and memoirs) and interviews gathered according to the Oral history method are the main sources for the analysis.

SPIRITUAL CARE FOR THE ELDERLY: OFFERING THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT DEATH

Author(s): Pierre-Yves Brandt,Robert Zhargalma Dandarova,Karine Laubscher / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

To speak of the Romanian village today is to consider a reality of life populated more and more by elderly people and children whose parents work outside the home, in town, or even abroad. The quality of life of the elderly remaining in the village is, in this context, a major concern for the political authorities and religious leaders. Indeed, many studies have shown that taking into account the religious and spiritual dimension contributes to the well-being of seniors.Recent research in Switzerland has highlighted the fact that many elderly people who live in senior care facilities are interested in talking about death with someone they trust. This trusted person is not necessarily the priest or chaplain. For many residents, this role is given to someone within the elderly person’s network of family and friends (spouse, daughter, niece, close friend, etc.). What happens when this network is empty and the elderly person is more isolated? We propose to think about how these observations can be transposed into a practice of spiritual care adapted to the context of the Romanian village.

Społeczne wymiary ekumenizmu w kontekście kryzysu ekologicznego

Author(s): Franciszek Kampka / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 19/2019

Kryzys ekologiczny jest przedmiotem troski wszystkich Kościołów chrześcijańskich. Autor omawia wspólne wątki dotyczące klimatu, jakie obecne są w wypowiedziach przywódców religijnych: odpowiedzialność człowieka za degradację środowiska, wezwanie do przeciwstawienia się kulturze chciwości, budowanie sprawiedliwości ekologicznej. Autor przedstawia społeczne skutki kryzysu klimatycznego – nierówności społeczne i ubóstwo oraz omawia nowe formy ekumenizmu praktykowane w społeczeństwie ryzyka. Nowy ekumenizm to nie ruch intelektualny czy dyskusje teologiczne, ale przede wszystkim wspólna praca Kościołów na rzecz ubogich.

Społeczno-religijna rola luteranów w dziejach Pabianic i Zgierza oraz relikty ich dziedzictwa materialnego

Author(s): Anna Kruś / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The purpose of the article is to analyze the socio- religious role of the Lutherans parishes in the history of urban agglomeration in Lodz. To illustrate this activity it's also important to present the relicts of the material heritage of this denomination, which can be observed in the urban space of these cities. Considerations in this article, are related to deliberately selected two cities: Pabianice and Zgierz, where the Lutheran church (in the form of the parish), for many years has shaped the socio- religious face of these urban centers. The considerations contained in this paper were based on the source material contained in the literature, as well as other papers open for general use like parish brochures and online resources.

SPRAWOZDANIE Z DZIAŁALNOŚCI DIECEZJALNEGO STUDIUM ORGANISTOWSKIEGO W RZESZOWIE W ROKU SZKOLNYM 2015/2016

Author(s): Andrzej Widak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 23/2016

Sprawozdanie z konferencji ekumenicznej Czy Eucharystia buduje Kościół? Miejsce i rola Eucharystii w życiu Kościoła, Kraków, 17 marca 2011 roku

Author(s): Krzysztof Napora / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2011

Sprawozdanie z sympozjum naukowego Na progu słowa. Odkryć na nowo sens milczenia, Kraków, 25 maja 2019 roku

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2019

W dniu 25 maja 2019 roku w Krakowie odbyło się sympozjum zorganizowane przez Katedrę Ekumenizmu Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie oraz przez Wyższe Seminarium Misyjne Księży Sercanów w Stadnikach, poświęcone tematowi: Na progu słowa. Odkryć na nowo sens milczenia.

Status after Death. Understanding Posthumous Social Influence through a Case Study on the Christian-Orthodox Tradition

Author(s): Ştefania Matei,Marian Preda / Language(s): English / Issue: 45/2016

In this paper we propose a conceptualization of ‘posthumous social status’ as a performative reality accomplished through collective actions that are materially and symbolically legitimated. We question the classical definitions of social status that lead to oversocialized theoretical models, and we argue for the necessity to reconsider the relation between social status and social roles in order to gain insight into the reality of a social presence after death. On this account, we claim that the prestige attached to one's position in society is a social phenomenon produced through autopoietic systems of social influence rather than a pre-existent and stable feature embedded in hierarchical structures and actions. Therefore, we clarify the link between social status and systems of influence through a case study in which we discuss how the Christian-Orthodox tradition is socially organized as a powerful realm of doing posthumous social status.

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Theologia Catholica Latina

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

ISSN (print): 1582-2524

ISSN (online): 2065-944x

ISSN-L: 1582-2524

Subject : Theological Journal

Text in : German, Italian, English, French (also Hungarian and Romanian between 2000–2004)

Year of the first edition : 2000

Periodicity : half-yearly (June, December)

Type of the publication: scientific/academic

Editors:

Dávid DIÓSI, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

János VIK, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Theologia Catholica Latina, series of the Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai journal, is published by the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of the Babeş-Bolyai University. The journal publishes scholarly articles in the field of theology and cognate disciplines. Articles are peer-reviewed.

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Catholica Latina appears since 2000, at the beginning in one number each year, and from 2005 until now in two numbers, that occur in June and December.

The structure of the journal is jointed on the studies and articles, books and reviews, grouped by domains. A significant part of the articles are published in the international languages. The magazine includes the main fields of the theological subjects (Biblical Theology, Dogmatic, Morality, Liturgical, Patrology, Catechesis, Christian Art, Religious Philosophy, Church History etc.), but also interdisciplinary studies. Following the example of the prestigious journals, our pages also host the presentation and the reviewing of some journals in the field of theology.

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Theologia Orthodoxa

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

ISSN (print): 1224-0869

ISSN (online): 2065-9474

ISSN-L: 1224-0869

Subject : Theological Journal

Text in: English; Romanian (same article)

Abstract and Keywords in : English; Romanian (same article)

Year of the first edition : 1992

Periodicity: half-yearly (June, December)

Type of the publication: scientific/academic

Editor : Pr. Prof. Dr. Vasile Stanciu, dean, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Theologia Orthodoxa appears since 1992 as a publication of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.

Since 1992 the review has appeared regularly, at the beginning in one cumulative number, 1-2, and from 2005 to nowadays in two numbers (June, December).

We publish articles of Orthodox Theology (biblical, historical, practical, systematic, etc.), but we are open to any other contribution which includes a reference to theology, especially in the field of philosophy, history or letters.

Studies in African Languages and Cultures

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Poland

Studies in African Languages and Cultures (until 2018 known as Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures) founded in 1984, is owned by the University of Warsaw. The journal is a forum for the publication of original works in various fields of African studies. Primarily focusing on African linguistics, including ethno- and sociolinguistics, it also covers African literature, African culture and history of Africa. It promotes research based on sources in African languages. 
The journal comprises articles, monographs, and reviews, as well as bibliographies, lexicographic studies and other source materials. Some issues are devoted to specialized topics or events.
The SALC is an international, peer-reviewed, both printed and, since 2009, online journal that is published once a year in December. The journal content which is freely available on the journal website appears on the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence.
All issues of the Journal are archived on the current website which is stored on the servers of University of Warsaw and will be always accesable for free. 

Sv. Grgur čudotvorac – zaštitnik Kotromanića i srednjovjekovne Bosne

Author(s): Dubravko Lovrenović / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Honouring eastern saint Gregory the Miracle-worker and his state-building role began and spread in mediaeval Bosnia through the schismatic Bosnian Church. Besides its being not papacy-approved, this saint’s recognition as patron of the ruling Kotromanić dynasty came through the establishment of the new territorial Church after the Catholic bishopric see had been transferred from Bosnia to Đakovo in the mid-thirteenth century. This means that it was an autonomous act of the then Bosnian political and ecclesiastical structures in search of a new identity (confessional) form. Thus over a 70-year span, between the bishopric see transfer from Bosnia to Đakovo and Ban Stjepan II Kotromanić’s taking power, beyond Rome’s jurisdiction, St Gregory the Miracle-worker was promoted the Kotromanićes’ patron. The new state Church of Basilian orientation and the dynastic patron whose name is incorporated in the intitulation of Ban Stjepan II, Prince Vladislaus, and Ban Tvrtko I Kotromanić are a notional pair describing the new ecclesiastical and political reality of mediaeval Bosnia and its ruling dynasty respectively. Search of the original sense of this intitulation, which according to the available sources was maintained for 40-odd years (1326/29-1370/74), leads to the Byzantine “commonwealth” area and the world of legitimistic perceptions built under the influence of Byzantine ruling titulature. When in the autumn of 1461 Pope Pius II, after unsuccessful attempts directed from Rome to establish Bosnian Bishopric, proclaimed, i.e. confirmed, St Gregory the Miracle-worker patron of the Bosnian Kingdom, ecclesiastical-political circumstances were radically different, marked by the sending of the Papal Crown to King Stjepan Tomašević (1461-1463). While St Gregory the Miracle-worker, after his official promotion, remained somehow in the background at least in contemporary documents – true, his name was permanently “built” into the court chapel at Trstivnica – another eastern saint was also given his role in the identification of the Bosnian ruling dynasty. On the coins of kings Tvrtko II Tvrtković (1421-1443) and Stjepan Tomaš (1443-1461), featuring is the figure of St Gregory of Naziansus – bishop and close associate and disciple of St Basil, one of the Eastern Church Fathers, the only one granted the title of theologian – Gregory the Theologian (329-388). This clearly points to the establishment of a cult of this (new) eastern saint related, like St Gregory the Miracle-worker’s cult, to the Bosnian Church. This will become clear especially when the figure of St Gregory, pope, instead of St Gregory of Naziansus, appears on the coins of King Tomaš after his official acceptance of Catholicism in 1445 – when one of the Eastern Church Fathers was replaced by one of the four Latin Church Fathers. This time once more arbitration was with the new ecclesiastical political paradigm represented in a new symbol. Despite the fact that after Tvrtko I its deceased kings were considered saints, mediaeval Bosnia did not develop the ideal of the king-saint in the form established in the countries of West and East-central Europe. This means that in Bosnia the king-saint ideal, like in the case of ruling intitulation referring to St Gregory the Miracle-worker, remained limited to the internal use. Thus the Bosnian ecclesiastical-political contorted paradigm becomes even more visible, and the need for its fuller scientific evaluation more pronounced.

Symbol w filozofii religii Paula Tillicha

Author(s): Maciej Bogdalczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2012

The concept of a symbol has its meaning not only in epistemology and psychology but also in philosophy of religion. The reconstructed concept of a religious symbol, based on Paul Tillich’s understanding and compared with present achievements in the field, is current and interesting motive to investigate the phenomenon of religion. Tillich’s existential interpretation of the ontology-based symbol, makes it more understandable and open for contemporary man and world questions concerning religion. The structure of religious symbol, its use and interpretation make man – religion communication more comprehensive and clear.