Pavel Soukup: Jan Hus. The Life and Death of a Preacher
Book-Review: Pavel Soukup, Jan Hus. The Life and Death of a Preacher. Purdue University Press. West Lafayette 2020. X, 223 S. ISBN 978-1-55753-876-5. (€ 47,10.) ‒ Thomas Krzenck
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Book-Review: Pavel Soukup, Jan Hus. The Life and Death of a Preacher. Purdue University Press. West Lafayette 2020. X, 223 S. ISBN 978-1-55753-876-5. (€ 47,10.) ‒ Thomas Krzenck
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The work before us is an attempt to present the life of Robert of Arbrissel (around 1047 / 1050–1117), a person who through his actions can serve as examplar of life of 12th century apostolic preachers. He established a dual monastery in Fontevrault, lived as a wandering preacher, had great influence on women, prostitutes, the poor, the leprous. He was known for the holiness and simplicity of life, although attempts made in the direction of his canonization were not successful.
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Today’s Orthodox Francophone parishes in the West, primarily in the territory of France and Switzerland, are parishes whose believers are mainly Westerners who have received Orthodoxy and constitute separate parishes belonging to different jurisdictions. A significant part of these parishes belongs to Serbian Orthodox Church, while one part is out of unity and communication with any Orthodox Church.
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Contemporary Orthodox theology still suffers from the significant lack of knowledge of the historical development of the Pastoral theology in the West, inspite of the fact that considerable efforts have been made in the field of studies of the Western Roman Catholic theological thought. Many current practices concerned with pastoral activity within the Orthodox Church are influenced by already existing models and solutions imported from the West, without any awareness of either the historical context or the historical development of those imported practices and solutions. The academic discipline of Pastoral the ology was founded in Austro-Hungarian Empire, within the Germanophone area that thus becomes the key territory for the development of fundamental historical concepts of Pastoral Theology as an academic discipline. By gaining the knowledge of the currents of theological thought in the field of Pastoral Theology, it can be argued that the Germanophone territories are a representative sample of the general currents in the field of Pastoral theology within the Roman Catholic Christendom.
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As a specific, and historically and socially determined theological discipline, the theology of human rights has emerged in the context of the theological and doctrinal statements of Reformed Churches. Karl Barth and Jürgen Moltmann, as the most prominent protestant theologians of the 20th century, made the most significant contribution in shaping it. After а certain time, the Reformed theological concept of human rights, beside many specifics and obvious lacks (latent millennialism), has become а developed theological system with emphasized social implications and political impact. From the time of proclaiming the Declaration of human rights by the World Association of Reformed Churches in 1976, the theological concept of human rights become the part of the mission and of the process of promoting the evangelical message of that Christian denomination.
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Saint Teresa of Avila or Teresa of Jesus (1515–1582) is considered as one of the most important Counter-Reformation saints; she actively promoted the mystical prayer, reformed the Carmelite order and wrote mystical works. Challenges that Teresa faced in 16th century Spain shaped her and her message, and the way in which it was expressed. She had to defend the legitimacy of her mystical experiences, and her plan for the reform of the Carmelites. Teresa began to take upon herself the defense of women generally, fighting for their larger and more prominent role within the Christian tradition. She was proclaimed as co-patron of Spain in 1617, and doctor ecclesiae in 1970.
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The submitted paper is an introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Western mystic of the 11th century, as well as the presentation of the first translation of some of her writings in Serbian language. Special attention is paid to her unusual and idiosyncratic theory, theology and mysticism of music in perspective of contemporary heterology and theopoetics.
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In the present paper we deal with an issue of the development of papal primacy between First and Second Vatican Council. Our research has shown that during this period, while the centralization of the church authority continued, at the same time, due to particular historical and political circumstances, there was a spiritual momentum, the movement that was coming from the inside of the Church itself, and not from hierarchical authority, which included emphasis on the Church as the mystical Body of Christ. This required a new reconciliation of hierarchical leadership of the Church, headed by the Pope, with the mystical, charismatic life of the Church, manifested in understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ, of the Church as a community. The attempt to achieve this reconciliation has been made on Second Vatican Council.
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In the 11th century there were several attempts to institutionalize the life of hermits, one of which is linked to Bruno of Cologne (about 1030–1101) and his Carthusian order. It was named after its main monastery in the Chartreuse in the alpine regions of eastern France. Carthusians have become small, stable religious order, sometimes with life- like hermitage, sometimes Benedictine. From the moment St. Bruno of Cologne founded the Carthusian Order, the Order is regarded as the strictest in the Roman Catholic Church, with the tradition of eremitical solitude, silence, abstinence and contemplative withdrawal from the world, which is very little changed even after the Second Vatican Council.
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Premonstratensians were founded by St. Norbert of Xanten (c. 1080–1134), at Prémontré, France, in 1120/21. They represent a religious community which gathered contemplative and active religious life. As an order of regular canons in the 12th century they were a sort of connection between strictly contemplative life of the previous period and the life of Mendicant Orders of the 13th century. St. Norbert was a prominent figure of the early 12th century and enjoyed great respect with his contemporaries.
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Carmelites initially were order of hermits gathered on Mount Carmel in Holy Land, probably in the twelfth century. They migrated to Europe on account of Muslim danger in the thirteenth century and soon became a mendicant order. Insight on the beginnings of Carmelite order is important for uderstanding their later development. Their medieval heritage was the foundation on which order will be further formed, especially in the sixteenth century, under the influence of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. In the seventeenth century order established a wide network of misssionary work, which included Latin America and China. As a result of the French Revolution, the existance of the order was endagered, but the carmelite way of life was re-established in the nineteenth century.
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In this paper we discuss the place and role of the Roman church and bishop during the first three centuries of the post-apostolic period. The events and scripts of the early Church history show that attitudes of Rome were accepted at almost all the most important discussions and disputes. It clearly points to the obligatory significance and spiritual authority of the Roman church related to others local churches. However, the same sources also prove that there was no common jurisdictional primacy of the Roman bishop during that time. We conclude that the special authority of the Roman church was out of question according to witnessing the truth about actual problems, but that such a position of the Roman church did not imply any church-legal domination above other local churches.
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In the present paper we deal with the relation of the Orthodox towards the issue of Papal primacy in the period after the Great Schism up until the fifteenth century. Our research has shown that the new rise of papacy had been interpreted differently. In the West, it was generally understood as the legitimate consequence of the development of the early Christian Church structure, while in the East it was considered as a radical revision of the Church structure and organization, due to the papacy being formed as a substantially higher order of authority, compared to bishopric authority. This paper has shown that what happened was a radical discontinuity, which in turn reveals that the rapid development of the papal monarchy from the XI century on can not be understood as a natural development of the organization of the early Church, and as such, despite the temptations of the Lyon and the Florentine Union, it was not accepted in the Orthodox East.
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On June 5 1367, a conference about the union of the Eastern and Western Churches was held in Constantinople. The Orthodox Church was represented by the monk Joasaph, former emperor John VI Cantacuzenus, and the Roman Catholic by Paul, titular Latin patriarch of Constantinople. The Source text about this conference, based on manuscripts from the XV and XVIII centuries, was published by John Mayendorff in 1960 (Jean Meyendorff, „Projets de Concile Oecuménique en 1367: Un dialogue inédit entre Jean Cantacuzène et le légat Paul“, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Number Fourteen, Washington, District of Columbia, 1960, 147–177). In the present paper I offer the Serbian translation of this source text, together with some basic historical information about the religious and political context and the personalities involved, as well as some theological and historical remarks about the conclusion adopted at the conference, namely that the schism can be overcome only by a Church council, and its destiny up to the Council of Ferrara– Florence (1438–1439).
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