ПАНТЕОН БОЖЕСТВ САХА В КОНТЕКСТЕ ПЕРВОСТИХИЙ ВОЗДУХА И ЗЕМЛИ, ОГНЯ И ВОДЫ

Author(s): Liudmila Egorova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 16/2012

This article attempts to examine the Pantheon of the ancestors of Saha in the context of the primal elements and the dual concepts of worship of heaven. The original Pantheon is divided into three groups – Aiyy, Toyon, Hahn, which perform different functions. Of these groups, there are two groups of Deities associated with the Moon and the sun cults (Aiyy and Toyon), which embody the pervostihii of water and fire, as well as relate to the concepts of 'algys' (good wishes, Communion) and 'arčy' (purification). The third is a compound (mix) of the qualities of the first and second groups, and is defined as the "giver of Fate", which can be perceived as indicators of levels of social status. On the author's hypothesis of the Indo-Iranians phonetic and semantic parallel names and functions of some Deities, Aiyy points to genetic link in the formation of the pantheons of ancestors of Saha and the ancient Aryans.

Ringen mit der Vergangenheit: Ein Versuch zur individuellen und kollektiven Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit ...

Author(s): Máté Joób / Language(s): German Issue: 01/2013

The study describes the social context in which the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary made an attempt at coming to terms with the relationship between church informants and state security following the collapse of the communist system. It also gives an overview of the process of the formation and work of the church committee whose role was to disclose and analyse the relationship between state security services and certain church people. Furthermore, it examines statements given by church bodies and individuals in order to find some aspects that can answer the following question: why has the process of coming to terms with the past become unexpectedly difficult in the given church community and why has the generally formulated pattern of repentance – confession of sins – forgiveness proved to be inapplicable in settling the question in an adequate way?

ZWIĄZKI BPA EDWARDA SAMSELA Z KOŚCIOŁEM NA TERENACH OBECNEJ BIAŁORUSI

Author(s): Wojciech Guzewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2013

Bishop Edward Samsel’s relations with the Church of the East were a major part of his pastoral ministry. As a patriot, he felt the obligation to help the Poles which remained within the borders of the Soviet Union, and suffered the torment of the local life. If possible, he tried to involve himself in the rebirth of religion in Belarus. Most contacts Bp E. Samsel had with the Grodno Diocese which was founded in 1991. The author analyzes the pastoral and material assistance, which was provided by Bp Samsel to resurgent church communities in Belarus, as well as his care for priests and seminarists.

DZIEJE KATOLICKIEJ PLACÓWKI DUSZPASTERSKIEJ W GOŁDAPI W XIX I PIERWSZEJ POŁOWIE XX WIEKU

Author(s): Marek Jodkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2013

In the XIX. and the first half of the XX. century Goldap belonged to those towns where the Catholic diaspora was surrounded by a substantial majority of Evangelicals. Masses have been celebrated there since 1884. In 1892 Catholic efforts were started to create an independent pastoral institution. For that purpose, a plot of land was bought where a church was to be built. The construction plans were prepared by Jobsky, a master bricklayer from Goldap. By December 1893, the church was constructed in a rough state. The investment was supported by Catholics from Warmia and other dioceses, as well as by some organizations, particularly the Boniface Association in Paderborn. On 16. August 1894, Eduard Lilienweiss was appointed as the first priest of Goldap and the church was consecrated on 9. September 1894. Its dedication, led by the Bishop of Warmia Andreas Thiel, was held on 25. June 1895. The church was dedicated to Saint Leo the Great and Saint Boniface. Catholic services were delivered by the priest from Goldap to other places, including Darkiejmy (currently Oziorsk) and Wegorzewo (since 1900). In 1890 738 Catholics were covered by the Goldap pastoral service, and in 1938 there was 650 of them. The authorities of the diocese and church organizations (like the Boniface and Adalbert Association in Frombork) participated in financing priests in Goldap.

О доданашњој историји римокатоличке цркве на подручју Тимочке крајине: Борски И Зајечарски Округ

Author(s): Zoran M. Jovanović,Jasmina S. Petrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 03/2013

There are sufficient reasons for the impression that Serbian science unfairly disregarded the existence of a relatively rich history of the Roman Catholic Church in the “far east” of Serbia, i.e. in Timočka Krajina - in the Bor and Zaječar Districts - to date. One of the reasons to draw such a conclusion can be found in the fact that this segment of history, due to, mildly put, extremely speculative terms, does not belong to the Serbian history. As a result of a set of different circumstances and due to possible prejudice and ignorance, i.e. the recognition of a selective history as the only true history, an easily makeable parallel has not yet been made concerning the role of Roman Catholics in the development of modern Serbia and the ancient Saxons, also Roman Catholics, who had a crucial role in the economic development of medieval Serbia and thus its overall power, which is the fact that the propagators of the so-called Golden Age of Serbdom and “Celestial Serbia”, contemporary and future, continually keep ‘forgetting’. The fact that the dominant confessional affiliation of the people shapes the quality of the cultural and social fabric (understood in the broadest sense) of a social space was not left unrecorded even among prominent sociologists, such as Max Weber, who attempted to verify the hypothesis of a link between the Protestant faith and the spirit of the capitalist economy in a broad comparative perspective. However, the issue of the impact of confessional minorities to the cultural, social, and economic conditions of a region is only incidentally treated in the writings of sociologists and scholars in related fields, which was the direct motivation for this paper.

Egy unitárius Szent Ágoston milánói kertjében. Losonczi B. András megtérése

Author(s): Andrea Gönczöl / Language(s): Issue: 1/2014

The paper gives a unique approach to the story of András B. Losonczi’s conversion. Losonczi is the author of the Latin language work Arma militae in 1740 translated into Hungarian with the title Vitézségünk fegyvere (Th e Weapon of our Valour) in 1743. Losonczi gives a forceful presentation of his conversion and vision rarely seen before in the literature of religious debates, thus giving a unique perspective to the prophetic voice in his work. In the introductory part he gives an account of his prior seven years spiritual and intellectual fl urry that got him to such an abyss that he was trembling from distress. However he turned to God with a repentant heart and, gaining God’s ears, he was given two unambiguous messages. Th e peculiarity of his treatise is that the author comparing himself to Saint Augustine, considers the fi rst observed words of the Holy Scriptures as the message of God. It looks like a similar event happened to András Losonczi to the one given account by Saint Augustine in the 12th chapter of the 12th book of his Confessions, and that the Unitarian author recreates, with some modifi cation, and makes relevant again the much earlier story. It is important to note that the Confessions as a literary pattern is handled in a very inventive way almost without example in Hungarian self-revealing and confessional literature.

Działalność inspektora Wojewódzkiego Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego w Bydgoszczy Teodora Lewandowskiego w Złotowie w 1945 roku

Author(s): Zenon Romanow / Language(s): Issue: 01/2014

Teodor Lewandowski, inspector of the Bydgoszcz Voivodship Security Service Office, was sent to Złotów in August 1945 to displace the local German population to a labour camp situated in that town. After a short time he had terrorised Złotów and became the terror of both the local Germans and the Polish autochthonous population. The inhabitants of the town were being thrown out of their flats, sent to the camp, and their possessions pillaged. Lewandowski himself took an active part in the plunder, appropriating gold jewellery and other objects of value. At the camp the prisoners were robbed, beaten, starved, forced to unpaid work, and subjected to physical and psychological harassment. Because of very bad sanitary conditions, lack of medical attention and starvation several prisoners died. The terrified local Polish population tried to come for help to the Złotów Starost (county head) and to the activists of the Polish Western Union, among whom there were many pre-war members of the Union of Poles in Germany. Their efforts ended successfully. The central authorities became interested in the fate of the local Polish population. Fearing that he might be arrested Lewandowski deserted in November 1945 and fled to Berlin; later he hid himself for 15 months in West Pomerania. He was arrested in February 1947 and brought to the District Military Court in Szczecin. In January 1948 he was sentenced to death; his life sentence was commuted to one of 15 years’ imprisonment. After 6.5 years, in August 1954, Teodor Lewandowski was released from prison.

Echinocţiul exodului

Author(s): Boris Buzilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2015

Last year, around the vernal equinox, a “round” number of years has past since a certain event not inscribed in any official timeline, but of sad remembrance for those who have lived it themselves and who had to bear the consequences: seventy years since the great exodus over the Prut of an important segment of Bessarabia’s population: the state administration personnel, the intellectual elite, the clergy. Significant names from among those established in Romania are also evoked here.

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).

Parohia ortodoxa română „Naşterea Domnului“ din München Câteva reflecţii la 40 de ani de existenţă

Author(s): Mircea Basarab / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09/2015

The article presents the history of this Romanian Orthodox parish in Munich and of the Romanian community living in this part of Germany, also covering issues such as the emergence of Orthodoxy in Germany, establishment of the first communities of Romanian immigrants in this country, relations with Mother Church, relations with the other Romanian communities, relations with the other Orthodox parishes in Munich, establishment of the Romanian Metropolitan in Germany, participation in ecumenical meetings etc.

Oaşa ’70

Author(s): Boris Buzilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09/2015

This article evokes some aspects of the spiritual settlement of Oaşa (Alba county). Its beginnings are linked to the 40s of the last century and its history, which is intertwined with the very existence of Oaşa monastery (founded after 1990), is also related to the appearance of several Bessarabian refugee families in Şugag-Alba, township where Oaşa always was.

Życie i początkowa działalność katechetyczna ks. Koronata Piotrowskiego (1875-1959)

Author(s): Andrzej Kiciński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2015

Rev. Koronat Piotrowski (1875-1959) was an outstanding priest and pedagogue. His academic, educational and social work in many aspects contributed to the development of Polish education, especially as far as the teaching of religion is concerned. He educated many generations of religion teachers, both clergymen and lay ones. He organized catechetic courses in the re-established Podlaska Diocese. He worked out programs for teaching religion for the whole Poland and for particular dioceses. He introduced to catechetic lectures modern didactics adjusted to the pupils' developmental abilities. He was an indisputable authority in introducing educational assumptions of the reborn Republic of Poland.

Gott zu lieben. Johannes Paul II (1920-2005)

Author(s): Krzysztof Michalski / Language(s): German Issue: 29/2005

»Liebst du mich?«, fragte Christus, nach dem Evangelium des heiligen Johannes, im Fortgehen seinen Schüler Simon Petrus. »Liebst du mich?«, sagte Kardinal Wojtyła in der römischen Kirche des heiligen Stanislaus während der Messe für den eben verstorbenen Johannes Paul I, »das ist die einzige Frage, in deren Licht wir jedes Pontifikat und jede menschliche Angelegenheit betrachten müssen.« Ein paar Tage später wurde Kardinal Wojtyla zu Johannes Paul II gewählt. Wenn wir also seiner Aufforderung Folge leisten wollen, dann müssen wir auch sein Pontifikat im Licht dieser Frage betrachten. Nur: Was bedeutet das, »Gott zu lieben«?

Jitka Jonová: Theodor Kohn (1845–1915), kníže-arcibiskup olomoucký, titulární arcibiskup pelusijský

Author(s): Monika Menke / Language(s): Czech Issue: 64/2016

Ecumenism in the Archdiocese of Malta during the Episcopate of Archbishop Joseph Mercieca (1976–2007)

Author(s): Hector Scerri / Language(s): English Issue: 07/2016

The long episcopate of Mgr Joseph Mercieca, Archbishop of Malta from 1976 to 2007, is characterized by the fruitful application and implementation of the Second Vatican Council in this European nation, at the southernmost tip of the European Union of which it has been a member since 2004. This research article studies the gradual development of the Ecumenical Movement in this predominantly Catholic nation from the years immediately following the Council, right through the many initiatives during the period of Mercieca’s leadership of the Church in Malta, particularly the establishment of a Diocesan Ecumenical Commission on a sure footing, the collaboration with other Churches and ecclesial communities, the two pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II and the celebration of a Diocesan Pastoral Synod in the concluding years of his episcopate. This article serves as a case study on the genesis and the subsequent development of ecumenical relations in a local Church, the ecumenical initiatives taken over the years, and the way forward in this important pastoral dimension of an extrovert Church.

Jan Walkusz, Konferencja Polskich Księży na Wschodnią Kanadę 1956-2016, Wydawnictwo „Bernardinum” Sp. z o.o., Pelplin 2016, ss. 168

Author(s): Marek Jodkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 53/2016

EKUMENICZNE ZNACZENIE OSOBY I DZIEŁA św. OLAVA HARALDSSONA

Author(s): Albert Mączka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2016

The article presents the person and work of St. Olav and the significance of his character for the modem ecumenical relations in Norway. Olav Haraldsson (995-1030) is an important element of culture and religion in the Kingdom ofNorway. Olav got to know the Christian faith and the culture of Europe and the Church during his numerous expeditions. He was fascinated by the person of Charlemagne. He abandoned paganism and was baptized in 1014 in Rouen. In 1015 he came back to Norway to become King. He introduced the Christian faith and law in his kingdom and established new social structures. However, he suffered defeat and fled to Ruthenia, where he got acquainted with the culture and mysticism of the East. Upon his return to Norway, Olav suffered a martyr’s death at Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. He was soon declared a saint and became a symbol of Norwegian identity and nationality. He later became the foundation of the Norwegian state and the Norwegian protestant church. Both Catholics and Orthodox worship Olav as a saint. He became a person gathering all Norway’s Christians. His faith, his experience of the culture of the East and the West, and his martyrdom make Olav an exceptional person for the ecumenical dialogue.

Biskup Polowy Wojska Polskiego Józef Gawlina w 50. rocznicę śmierci – na kanwie wystawy fotografii

Author(s): Eliza Lubojańska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 41 (2)/2015

Ksiądz Arcybiskup Szczepan Wesoły. Wystawa przygotowana przez Bibliotekę Teologiczną Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach

Author(s): Ewa Olszowy / Language(s): Polish Issue: 41 (2)/2015

Episcopul Nicolae Ivan – zidind pe temeliile vechi ca oarecând Neemia

Author(s): Ioan Chirilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2016

Homage to the one who taught us how to sow the flower of gratitude, to find the lasting foundations of the forerunners, to go through the bath of assumed and repentant suffering, to find the strength and the practical solutions for raising a nation to light, deeds and the fulfillment of its destiny. This word of praise for Bishop Nicolae Ivan aims to bring in actuality his lucid and pragmatic spirit, united with the gospel and apologist of the right faith as a role model today. A lesson for shaping the culture of gratitude, a vivid example of economic, financial, banking, educational and social ingenuity worth taking, a soul full of love and of incessant disposition to serve his fellow setting the times right. Vivid words about the one filled with passion for work and the one who tells about the dignity of a nation at the dawn of its creative freedom to restore itself in the Lord.