Miloslav Kaňák jako církevní historik, husitolog a znalec života i díla anglického reformátora Jana Viklefa

Author(s): Bohdan Kaňák / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2015

Miloslav Kaňák (1917–1985) was a Professor at the Jan Hus Czechoslovak Theological Faculty of Prague. M. Kaňák was appointed head of the department of history there in 1950 and worked there until 1981. He pursued his interest in five areas: general history, the period of the National Revival in Bohemia, the Modernist movement of Czech Catholic clergymen, the beginnings of the contemporary Czechoslovak Independent Hussite Church as well as the history of the Medieval Hussite period with special attention to its roots. The paper also pays deeper attention not only to the circumstances of the origin, but also the content of Kanak’s monograph on the English reformer John Wycliffe. The main result of Kanak’s study of this issue was the book: John Wycliffe: The Life and Work of the English Hus Predecessor which was published in Prague in 1973. The book includes an interpretation of the life and writings of Wycliffe and deals with the reception of Wycliffe’s doctrine in Bohemia. The author also discusses the Lollard Movement in England.

Mistr Jan Hus v životě a reflexi Církve československé husitské

Author(s): Jiří Vogel / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2015

The paper attempts to present the role of Jan Hus and of the Hussite movement in the Czechoslovak Church (CSC), known as the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (CSHC) as of 1971. It notes that after the creation of CSC in 1920 a rather romantic reminiscence of Jan Hus prevailed in the church nourished by Masaryk’s ideal of humanity, which gave rise to a broad symbolic, liturgical, artistic and partly ideological formation. It describes the disintegration of identity in the CSC in the totalitarian crises of the Czechoslovak state in the period of Nazism and Communism, and how CSC helped overcome these crises by symbols and ideas of the Hussite tradition, and how the idea of the extension of the name of CSC through the term "Hussite" was born at the end of the 1960s. It was adopted by the Church during the sixth Assembly of CSC in 1971. This decision had a remarkable effect on the quality and professionalism of the study of Hus’ works and other texts coming from the Hussite tradition.

Nagyböjtben a liturgia is böjtöl

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2019

A nehéz pillanatokban fordítsuk tekintetünket az Úr felé

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2019

Szerénytelenség a szakmában

Author(s): József Lukács / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2019

Nehezebb a felállás, mint a megelőzés

Author(s): Márta Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2017

Seminaria duchowne, seminaria i szkoły teologiczne nierzymskokatolickie w prawie polskim

Author(s): Tadeusz Jacek Zieliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

Running educational institutions is of crucial importance for many religious communities. Among them, in the case of Christian Churches, the institutions that educate clerics and other people active in the implementation of their religious mission play a special role. Polish law contains extensive guarantees in this regard for all religious communities. This also applies to Churches other than the Catholic Church. The presented article focuses on the legal situation of schools of higher education run by non-Roman Catholic religious communities. In particular, it discusses broadly the status of seven priestly seminaries and similar colleges operated within the Churches: Orthodox, Methodist, Baptist, Adventist, Polish Catholic, Old Catholic Mariavite and Pentecostal.

Wybrane kwestie organizacji nauczania religii w szkołach publicznych

Author(s): Agnieszka Filak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Nearly 30 years of the religious instruction in the state school system seems to be sufficient time to try to summarize and attempt an evaluation of the functioning of the Polish model. The scope of this summary and evaluation shall be limited to, broadly speaking, the presence of the Catholic religious instruction in the state school system. Any changes in the system of religious instruction are, due to their nature as questions pertaining to worldview and therefore especially sensitive, subject to mostly political and not content-related decisions. And the present political situation is, as mentioned above, especially unfavorable toward content-related discussion in that regard.

Niepewność poznawcza jako element liberalnego kwakryzmu

Author(s): Zbigniew Kaźmierczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2019

The paper refers to the critical point made by professor Pink Dandelion from the University of Birmingham that modern liberal Quakerism is governed by the sense of total incertitude that has become the norm of the group (‘the absolute perhaps’) making it less permissive than it pretends to be. If that were the case, the liberal Quakerism would not be in fact liberal but would need to be deemed oppressive. The paper presents the idea of the liberal Quakerism conceived of not as a religion but as collective method of managing individual, spiritual and religious quests. This seems to account for its special dealing with incertitude as a way of keeping the social group together. Insistence on incertitude stems from the willingness not to hurt or dominate other Quaker, individual seekers by declaring any absolute truths. Also having no creed, putting silence in the centre of the religious service (the meeting for worship) as well as welcoming people of all worldviews, Quakerism has become a natural place where incertitude can be one of the main values as it enables Quakers to practice their individual quests more peacefully and safely. The paper shows, however, that by no means is it an absolute incertitude. Sociological research shows that most British Quakers believe in God and want to describe themselves as Christians.

Krisztus és Pál a szeretetről

Author(s): György Benyik / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2015

Quo vadis? - Hová mégy?

Author(s): Silvia Bereczki / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2015

Örök, körök.Körtánc-, körmenet- és körláncalakzatok

Author(s): Béla Nóvé / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2015

Charles Collins: Hollywood és a katolikus egyház "titkai"

Author(s): Charles Collins / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2020

Körmenet és körbejárás

Author(s): Katalin Szőcs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2020

A leheletvékony "hely" nyomában

Author(s): Silvia Bereczki / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2020

Ki a tevékeny szemlélődő?

Author(s): László Őrsy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2020

Viaţa şi activitatea teologului protestant Emil Brunner (1889-1966)

Author(s): Mihai Iordache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07/2016

Considered to be one of the most important Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, Emil Brunner was born in Winterthur in 1889 and died in 1966 in Zurich. On the one hand, through his work and theology, he decisively influenced modern and contemporary Protestant theological thought and on the other hand, through his intuitions and his ethical and social studies, he influences Western social and economic life. Professor of Dogmatics in Zurich, between 1924-1953, his fundamental work consists of 3 volumes of Christian Dogmatics, along with 2 works of ethics and socio-economic sciences: Das Gebot und die Ordnungen. Entwurf einer protestantisch-theologischen Ethik şi Die Gerechtigkeit. Eine Lehre von den Grundgesetzen der Gesellschaftsordnung. Among his other major works we mention: Die Mystik und das Wort, Der Mittler, Gott und Mensch, Der Mensch im Widerspruch, Wahrheit als Begegnung etc. He was part of the “Dialectic Theology”, a stream of Protestant theology, which was founded in Germany in the interwar period and he was considered a “theologian of theologians” due to the accuracy and consistency of his ideas about God and man. He had a critical attitude regarding the implications of Protestant theology in civil society, saying that theology must take into account the current context and the needs of modern man, without forgetting its fundamental desideratum, to proclaim the Gospel. In his theology, he gives great importance to the Word of God (Wort Gottes), which he understands as the only way of communication (the Intercessor) through which fallen man can connect with God.

Tanítványok, próféták és misztikusok

Author(s): Richard Rohr / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2020

Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation, From the Center for Action and Contemplation

CARE FOR THE DEPARTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LIVING

Author(s): Marija Girevska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This article explores the care for the departed in the liturgical practice of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Divine Liturgy and the memorial services show how the Church prays for both the departed and the mourners, thus creating a cycle of ecclesiastical communion. We are reminded of the greatness of the benefit of praying for and to the departed and of the mode of our salvation.

Teologiczno-patriotyczny charakter jasnogórskich aktów zawierzenia św. Jana Pawła II

Author(s): Józef Warzeszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 32/2022

In this article, the author discusses the acts of entrustment that John Paul II addressed to the Lady of Jasna Góra, Queen of Poland, “Mother of my nation” and “my homeland” during his pilgrimages to Po- land. The Pope thanks in them for the blessed presence of Lady of Jasna Góra in Poland; expresses his closeness to suffering compatriots, especially those who suffered repressions by the communist regime. He commends to the caring hands of the Queen of Poland the future of children, youth, families, matters and social attitudes that has a key meaning for the future. In the content of the prayers, one can see the Pope’s great effort to build and strengthen Marian devotion and spirituality in the Polish nation as the foundations of its prosperous future. In a word, all these prayers and entrustments contain an enormous theological and patriotic treasury, so that it is worthwhile to conduct theological reflection on them.