"Biografiile" Sfantului Maxim Marturisitorul si contextul istoric al epocii sale

Author(s): Vicen?iu Românu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-3/2017

In modern Romanian theology, Father Dumitru Stăniloae is the first theologist who started capitalizing, by their precious translations and comments, for almost half a century, on a part of the theological and spiritual works of the great Byzantine and erudite monk of the 7th century in the person of Saint Maxim the Confessor, thus ranging under the neopatristic trend, dedicated to the „maximology” commenced during the first half of the 20th century. Within the four tomes of maximian works, the Romanian theologist casts some light on the sizes and profound significances of the confessor monk Maxim’s thinking in relation to contemporary theology, however, concerning Their life, the scholared Romanian theologist compiles short biographic notes.

"Continuities and discontinuities. Educational program of The Planned Parenthood Association in Krakow (1957 – 1993)"

Author(s): Barbara Klich-Kluczewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

The article presents the program of sexual education prepared and offered by Krakow Branch of the Planned Parenthood Association in the wider context of socio-political situation in Krakow (1956 – 1989). Since the beginning of the Association’s existence, the special attention was paid to the development of educational program, which concerned the different aspects of „family life“. The article is going to answer the questions about its goals, the educational tools used to achieve them and its social targets. To accurately determine the position of the Association in the city‘s community I will analyse its foundation and activities in wider context of the pre-war traditions of the organisation and the activities regarding premarital counselling undertaken by the Krakow Catholic Church.

"Foaia Diecezana" - 130 de ani de aparitie

Author(s): Constantin Cilibia / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-3/2017

The Diocesan Sheet magazine, through the articles printed, enjoys an even greater popularity within believers, priests, not only from the Caransebeș Bishopric, but the entire country. The editorial team consists of church, but also laic personalities with a good theological preparation. It is led by our inexhaustible Bishop, Dr. Lucian Mic, of Caransebeș, who is undertaking great efforts for the magazine to appear periodically and in exquisite graphic conditions. From what we have seen so far, the Diocesan Sheet magazine is highly appreciated, not only within the Caransebeș Bishopric, the Banat Mitropoly, but also within the Romanian Patriarchy. We see its presence everywhere, thus confirming that it complies with current requirements and exigencies.

"GLOBALIZACIJA" RIMSKOG CARSTVA I ŠIRENJE KRŠĆANSTVA.

Author(s): Anto Popovic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 19/2003

This article explores some of the factors which enabled Christianity become a world religion in a relatively brief span of time. As well as looking at the culture of the time, it examines the contribution of military, legal, monetary and communication factors in the Roman Empire. These factors were a cohesive force which made a vast empire, of many ethnic groups (nations), cultures and religions, into a unified social-political and economic-cultural space. All these factors bear marks of the Roman Empire and Greco-Roman civilization, and therefore they may be treated under the heading "globalization" of the Roman Empire. In their oral and written address to their audiences and in their mutual correspondence, the first proclaimers of the Good News made extensive use of the advantages of these "globalizing" factors on their missionary journeys. However, the crucial and the most important driving force behind the rapid spread of Christianity was the self-awareness of the first Christian proclaimers of their universal mission, their finn belief in the saving power of the Gospel and their conviction that all peoples are in an urgent need of God's salvation.

,„Și încă a pustiit şi sfânta mănăstire”. Mănăstirea Govora și un gest de putere de la mijlocul secolului al XV-lea

Author(s): Ramona Adina Neacsa (Lupu) / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: XXXIII/2015

This paper analyses the destruction of the Govora Monastery by the boyar Albu the Great in mid fifteenth-century Wallachia. The main contention of the article is that this sacrilegious act was embedded in the struggles between different Wallachian noble groups competing for power. Thus, by devastating the monastery, Albu the Great was trying to strengthen his own position, while undermining that of the founder of the monastery, no other than Vlad the Devil, the lord of Wallachia. The Govora monastery played an important role in supporting and legitimizing Vlad’s rule, therefore any act of violence directed against it was actually aimed to its founder. A locus of history and legitimacy, the monastery had a significant capital of symbolic power that could be manipulated, destroyed or, on the contrary, restored. This is precisely what happed with Govora in the second half of the fifteenth century, when Vlad the Devil’s descendents took care to restore the family monastic foundation. Thus, Vlad the Impaler punished Albu the Great and his entire kin and, afterwards, Vlad the Monk and Radu the Great re-established the monastic estate by buying back two of its former villages, Glodul and Hinţa. The purpose of this article is to suggest that the fifteenth-century Wallachian monasteries were not solely a network of religious and economic centres, but also hubs of political power.

250 lat liturgicznego kultu Serca Jezusowego w Polsce – memoriał biskupów polskich z 1765 roku

Author(s): Ireneusz Sloma / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 08/2015

The liturgical Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was approved 250 years ago. This solemnity is celebrating on the Friday after the octave of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). The Polish bishops Memorial of 1765 was really important document which helped in approval the Sacred Heart solemnity. That is why every Sacred Heart worshipper should read and know this document. 250th anniversary of approval this worship is the best time to do this. The Memorial presents the beginning of Sacred Heart worship history and meaning this worship for every worshipper. What is more this document shows arguments for approval of the liturgical solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Memorial shows clearly that orthodox Sacred Heart worship exist in the Church and this worship is accepted and still promoting by the Holy See. That is why this worship needs official approval of the appropriate form of the Mass, and breviary. Polish Bishops Memorial especially ask for approval of these texts for Poland. One of the reasons of it is Polish people are real Sacred Heart worshippers and they believe that this Heart helps them in every difficult situation.

60 de ani de la primele canonizări de sfinţi români

Author(s): Mircea Gelu Buta / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 11/2015

Although a strong church from the beginning, with special spiritual life and moral-religious leading personalities, the Romanian Orthodox Church has started late with canonisation of saints. It is the merit of Patriarch Justinian and the members of the Holy Synod of the time, in October 1955 in full Stalinist regime, that several Romanian saints were canonized, whose relics were on this land for centuries. The following were declared then saints of the Romanian Orthodox Church: St. John the Wallachian (12th of May), St. Hierarchs Elias Iorest and Sava Brancovici, Metropolitans of Transylvania from the seventeenth century as witnesses (24th of April), St. Pious Visarion Sarai and Sophrony of Cioara and pious peasant Oprea Nicolae (21st of October), St. Hierarch Calinic of Cernica (11th of April) and St. Hierarch Joseph the New from Partoş (15th of September).

A Christian in the Roman Empire in the Light of Saint Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos

Author(s): Marta Ziólkowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2016

The question of Christian’s identity was an imperative issue in the socio-religious realities of the fourth and fifth centuries. This topic was undertaken by St. Augustine as a priest of the community of Hippo. Taking examples from the life of the faithful people it explicates the events from the fundamental perspective, i.e. from the point of view of a Christian. This publication presents the first part of the Christian attitude with regard to others. The second part is devoted to the overriding respect for the world in which people live as Christians. The third part presents the Christian as a citizen of the Roman Empire. Numerous moralistic indications create a somewhat handbook for Christians and present the concrete postulates for Christian formation.

A könyvek sorsa, avagy unitárius egyházpolitika a türelmi rendelet évtizedeiben

Author(s): Sándor Kovács / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2012

A szerzetesség és a radikális Krisztus-követés megítélése a reformátori teológiai tradícióban

Author(s): Ferenc Szucs / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2012

Adatok az Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület első világháborús történetéhez

Author(s): Lóránt László / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: III/2016

The outbreak of the First World War placed the Christian Churches of Europe into a delicate situation. They were forced to serve an ideology which was radically opposed to the doctrines of the New Testament. A new sermon literature emerged, which acknowledged and justified the War, and the Churches had to identify entirely with the objectives of the state, often becoming mere means of its propaganda. The Reformed Diocese of Transylvania represented no exception, its pastors were present on the battlefields and its theologians presented the war in their writings and sermons as a nation and soul renewing event. This changed radically as years passed. The Romanian invasion of 1916 and the evacuation of the South-East regions of Transylvania affected primarily the Hungarians. The majority of pastors, even while fleeing and being in their temporary accommodation area, strove to stay near their congregations. Disappointment, false enthusiasm, xenophobic discourse was equally present in the sermon literature of the last two years of the war. Stimulated by the situation created by the end of the war, the Hungarian churches of Transylvania made a tight confessional collaboration.

Akathistos and Pokrov: A Case Study of Iconographic Contamination

Author(s): Nazar Kozak / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2014

The Virgin’s protection as the main concept of Strophe 19 of the Akathistos Hymn demanded an appropriate visualization. Thus in some of the Akathistos cycles the illustration of this strophe was definitely influenced by the iconography of the Pokrov, which embodied the same idea. Actually, the specific representation of the Virgin holding a cloth (in several cases looking like an omophorion) in her arms had been borrowed. We will discuss how this variant of the illustration of Strophe 19 had emerged, when and where it was spread and why? The Virgin’s protection as the main concept of Strophe 19 of the Akathistos Hymn demanded an appropriate visualization. Thus in some of the Akathistos cycles the illustration of this strophe was definitely influenced by the iconography of the Pokrov, which embodied the same idea. Actually, the specific representation of the Virgin holding a cloth (in several cases looking like an omophorion) in her arms had been borrowed. We will discuss how this variant of the illustration of Strophe 19 had emerged, when and where it was spread and why?

Akt fundacyjny prepozytury w benedyktyńskich Książnicach Wielkich z r. 1508

Author(s): Maria Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/1999

This publication reveals in print the content of the founding charter of 1508 concerning the establishment of the provostship and mansionary residence in Książnice Wielkie, a village near Koszyce, in the former Proszowice poviat district. Due to its detailed, even meticulous nature, the document made an important contribution to the organisation of the above Church institutions. The Tyniec monastery was the formal founder of the provostship in Książnice Wielkie, whereas Mikołaj of Koprzywnica (aka Mikołaj of Szadek) acted as the initiator and its actual founder. Until 1809, the provostship survived in the form in which had been established back in 1508.

Aleksander Lubomski – badacz dziejów opactwa cysterskiego w Oliwie. Na marginesie rozwoju historiografii szarych mnichów Pomorza Gdańskiego. Cz.1

Author(s): Dariusz Aleksander Dekanski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 38/2016

The publication tries to present the figure of a forgotten, or rather forgotten by historiography, researcher of the history and culture of the Cistercian Abbey in Oliwa. It is to be an element of a biography of the historian and an element of a source publication that is to make available to a broader community of researchers A. Lubomski’s manuscripts on Oliwa Abbey, which is very rarely explored by historians, especially those of the younger generation. We show the figure of the historian and his manuscripts on the background of Polish historiography of the second half of 20th century, drawing attention of the reader to its deficiencies in terms of its perception of less known historians who, however, put all their hearts and talents to introducing the history and culture of Oliwa.

Ambony łodziowe w Polsce. Studium ikonograficzno-ikonologiczne

Author(s): Katarzyna Kawa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2012

Boat-shaped pulpits were created in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and they are one of the recent implementations of the Ship of Church theme in art. Boat-shaped pulpits occur in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and in Poland, where there are most examples of such objects. The present article’s aim is to characterize the pulpit in the shape of a boat on the basis of iconographical and iconological analysis, to explain the main ideas and content that accompanied their creators and designers. In earlier literature exhaustive interpretation of the boat-shaped pulpit did not appear. The author has attempted a comprehensive view of their symbolism. It was found that the concept of the first Polish boat-shaped pulpit refers to a passage from the Gospel according to Saint Luke, which speaks of Christ’s teaching from the boat (Luke 5:3). So the preacher preaching from the pulpit symbolizes Christ’s teaching, but also the teaching of whole Church. Boat-shaped pulpits also symbolize the Church, which fishes out with the net of the Word of God, the souls of men from dangerous depths of the sea. The symbolism of the pulpits also stressed the primacy of the papacy.

An Anglican church in Bucharest. The British Anglican Church in Bucharest and the Foreign Office Strategy towards Romania

Author(s): Lucio Valent / Language(s): English / Issue: LIV/2015

This study explores – through British documents – the case of the restoration of the building which housed the Church and the Anglican community in Bucharest in 1950s. At the end of the Second World War, having understood that no free political activities would have been permitted by the new local government, London concluded that a cautious but concrete propaganda activity was the appropriate response to the new situation in the country. In this context, the Anglican Church of Bucharest was deemed as a valuable stronghold, prompting the British Foreign Office to support the refurbishment works of the building. The edifice allowed religious worship activities in a country where the state was committed to reduce the local society’s way of life to dictatorial standards. In other words, thanks to the Anglican Church, the Foreign Office thought that the Romanians would remember the existence of democratic values different from those advocated by the Communists.

ANDREI ŞAGUNA AND THE LEADERS OF THE EVANGELICAL-LUTHERAN CHURCH IN TRANSYLVANIA

Author(s): Mircea Gheorghe Abrudan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Born, educated and living in the multilinguistic and multiconfessional space of the Austrian Monarchy, Andrei Şaguna has been able to fructify both the cultural and the patristic heritage of Orthodoxy, and the modern and liberal spirit of the second half of the 19th century, cultivating good relationship with Bishop Georg Daniel Teutsch and friendships with Alois Sentz and Jakob Rannicher. His correspondence and the historiographic evidence reveal these contacts as having been marked by respect, due to the function his acquaintances had in the academic staff, the imperial and local administrative and educational mechanism, but especially by reverence and appreciation. The life, activity, and works of Metropolitan Andrei Şaguna, make him a European figure, because of his formation, his pastoral mission, his strong dedication to education and to bringing the culture closer to the Transylvanian Romanians, and his part in the inter-confessional dialogue before the initiation of the Ecumenical Movement and the official contacts between the Orthodox and the Lutheran churches.

Aneks 1 – Breve Jana Pawła II zezwalające na koronację figury Matki Boskiej w Skrzatuszu

Author(s): . Miscellaneous / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2013

Aneks 1 – Homilia bpa Edwarda Dajczaka wygłoszona podczas Diecezjalnego Spotkania Młodych w Skrzatuszu 20 września 2014 r.

Author(s): Edward Dajczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2015

Aneks 7 – Dokumentacja w sprawie zmian w kalendarzu liturgicznym Diecezji Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskiej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016