Obrzęd nałożenia paliusza metropolitom – historia i teologia

Author(s): Karol Litawa / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 51/2018

The term pallium derives from Latin and signifies “coat”. It is a strip made of white wool, worn on shoulders, used as an element of a liturgical attire of a Metropolitan Archbishop. The pallium is decorated with six Greek crosses, three pins and silk black trimmings. Its meaning is to emphasize the liturgical function and power of a Metropolitan Archbishop and his unity with the Holy See. The liturgical rite for imposing the pallium in the history had many modifications, and the present form was approved by Pope Francis in 2015. The rite itself underlines the pastoral responsibility of the Shepard towards his flock. It is a visible sign of unity, of the communion with Holy See and it is also a call for evangelical fortitude.

Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos’s Panoplia Dogmatike

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2017

The paper examines the texts encomia in the Slavonic copies that contain the First and the Second book of Euthymios Zigabenos’s 12th century Panoplia Dogmatike. The focus is on the following written evidence: the Slavonic translation of PD First book from the first to the 11th chapter included in two manuscripts: HM.SMS 186 – a 16th century copy from Hilandar monastery, and another 16th century manuscript – miscellany III c 16, Mihanovich collection in HAZU; the only copy containing the Second Book of PD in Slavonic – Ms. Slav. BAR 296 from the repository in the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest, dated from the very beginning of the 15th century; the famous Zagreb miscellany of Vladislav the Grammarian from 1469 with excerpts from PD. The texts of encomia are published as a complex for the first time. The author sustains the hypothesis that the Slavonic translation of PD had a close connection with the Athonite monastic brotherhood, whose orthodoxy and orthopraxy was the main engine for both the appearance of the translation, and its subsequent use and spread, especially in Ottoman times, when the Orthodoxy, more than ever, needed the dogmatic bases of its identity. The article tries to answer the question about the role of encomia in this process.

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Author(s): Nenad Urić,Miroljub Vasić,Milan Koljanin,Milorad P. Radusinović,Sonja Božanović,Dubravka Stajić,Vladislav Marjanović,Dragica Mugoša / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1+2/1984

Reviews of: 1. Naučni skup: KOLUBARSKA BITKA, Review by: Nenad Urić; 2. BEOGRADSKI UNIVERZITET U PREDRATNOM PERIODU, OSLOBODILAČKOM RATU I REVOLUCIJI (Saopštenja i prilozi sa simpozijuma održanog u Beogradu 14-15. decembra 1982. godine), Beograd 1983, 507., Review by: Miroljub Vasić; 3. Nikola Anić, Sekula Joksimović, Mirko Gutić, NARODNOOSLOBODILAČKA VOJSKA JUGOSLAVIJE. PREGLED RAZVOJA ORUŽANIH SNAGA NARODNOOSLOBODILAČKOG POKRETA 1941 - 1945, Vojnoistorijski institut, Beograd, 1982, str. 996., Review by: Milan Koljanin; 4. Ćiril Petešić, KATOLIČKO SVEĆENSTVO U NOB, Zagreb 1982, 276 str., Review by: Milorad Radusinović; 5. Miroslav Milovanović, NEMAČKI KONCENTRACIONI LOGOR NA CRVENOM KRSTU U NIŠU I STRELJANJE NA BUBNJU, Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd, Opštinski odbor SUBNOR Niš, IRO »Narodna knjiga«, Beograd 1983, str. 345., Review by: Sonja Božanović-Špoljar; 6. DOKUMENTI О SPOLJNOJ POLITICI SFRJ 1945. Priredili: Đorđe Vasiljević i Bogdan Popović, »Jugoslovenski pregled«, Beograd 1984, 426 str., Review by: Dragica Mugoša; 7. DA LI SU PRIVREDNE KRIZE I REFORME NEIZBEŽNE U SOCIJALIZMU? Povodom prevoda knjige Evgenija Preobraženskog Nova ekonomika. Pokušaj teorijske analize sovjetske privrede (izdanje Centra za kulturnu djelatnost, Zagreb 1983)., Review by: Dubravka Stajić; 8. Maurice Vaisse, ALGER: LE PUTSCH. Ed. Com-plexe, Bruxelles 1983, 146., Review by: Vladislav Marjanović

Etyka cnót w polityce

Author(s): Grzegorz Chojnacki / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 19/2019

Na drodze dialogu ekumenicznego powstają różnorodne inicjatywy – na poziomie hierarchicznym, naukowym, lokalnym etc., które z jednej strony są wynikiem mozolnego dyskursu, modlitwy, spotkań, z drugiej zaś świadczą o chęci uczestnictwa w toczącej się debacie publicznej i przemianach społeczno-kulturowych. Ze względu na fakt, że ten głos jest zabieramy regularnie i przez wielu partnerów dialogu, tym bardziej można zauważyć jego rezonans w przestrzeni międzynarodowej, krajowej czy lokalnej. Przykładem tego ekumenicznego zrozumienia jest wspólny dokument Konferencji Episkopatu Niemiec i Rady Ewangelickiego Kościoła w Niemczech pod znamiennym tytułem: Demokratie braucht Tugenden („Demokracja potrzebuje cnót”). „Rehabilitacja” cnót w przestrzeni społeczno-politycznej wypływa z wizji antropologicznej człowieka, opartej przede wszystkim na jego istocie, a nie funkcjonalności. Metafizyczno-deontologiczne spojrzenie na człowieka i jego relacyjne odniesienia pozwala ugruntować pogląd, że cnota sprawiedliwości i solidarności wyznaczają kierunek zrównoważonego rozwoju społeczeństwa.

Nowe miasto Boże w ujęciu Ezechiela (Ez 48,30-35)

Author(s): Andrzej Sebastian Jasiński OFM / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 19/2019

W duchu dialogu judaistyczno-chrześcijańskiego, w artykule zajmuję się tekstem Ez 48,30-35, który jest bardzo ważny dla obu wspólnot wierzących. Ostatnia wizja Ezechiela (Ez 40–48) stała się źródłem inspiracji dla judaizmu i chrześcijaństwa. Nie ma jednak zgodności w interpretacji tej prorockiej zapowiedzi: nastania nowej świątyni i nowego miasta. Świątynia (+ miasto) została przedstawiona w świetle judaizmu rabinackiego, pism qumrańskich oraz samego Ezechiela. W części egzegetycznej przebadano dokładnie tekst Ez 48,30-35. Na zakończenie zostały przedstawione wnioski teologiczne w sześciu punktach: chwała Jahwe; dziedzictwo patriarchów; potęga Jahwe; obecność Jahwe; nadzieja Izraela; recepcja chrześcijańska. Księga Ezechiela pozostaje jednym z najbardziej tajemniczych pism biblijnych. Jej potencjał teologiczny nie zawsze jest doceniany. Odnosi się to również do kwestii dialogu międzyreligijnego. Ezechiel był heroldem świętości imienia Jahwe oraz poznania Boga: Pana całego stworzenia, obecnego pośrodku swego ludu. Prawdy te stanowią trzon credo zarówno Żydów, jak i chrześcijan. Wspólna ich kontemplacja pozwala na wzajemne zbliżenie, które w końcu wszystkich pragnących doprowadzi do miasta nazwanego „Jahwe (jest) tam” (Ez 45,35).

Christians and Jews: historical and theological perspectives of their relationship

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 19/2019

The article analyses the subject of Christian-Jewish relations in historical and theological terms. In the historical part, the following periods are briefly discussed: New Testament, patristic, medieval, modern and contemporary. In the theological part, the common elements of Judaism and Christianity are first presented. Herein: Jews and Christians identify their faith and action through the interrelations between justice and love; they base their beliefs on the common “scripture” (the “Old Testament”); they understand each other as the people of God; they profess the one God, the Creator and the Redeemer; they express their faith in worship, in which there are many similarities;Jews and Christians also live in the expectation for the common history of God with His people, whose fulfilment they expect. Distinctive elements (the divergence of the ways) are: the belief in Jesus, the Christ; the interpretation of the Scriptures; a different understanding of what God’s people are; different developed piety. In conclusion, it is said that the rediscovery of a positive relationship with Judaism facilitates a positive formation of Christian identity and memory.

Le Testament d’Abraham et sa présence dans un convoy juridique et antihérétique (BAR Mss. sl. 636)

Author(s): Ivan Biliarsky / Language(s): French Issue: 1-2/2019

The article is devoted to an Old Testament apocryphon – the Testament of Abraham – and its presence, its importance and its functions in the convoy of predominantly juridical and polemical anti-heretical collection compiled in the Principality of Moldova in the 16th century. The second part of the article proposes an interpretation of the text and its importance mainly in the legal context of the copy (BAR, Ms. sl. 636). What can be the meaning and function of a deuterocanonical text in a predominantly juridical collection? The study of the manuscript itself leads us to the conclusion that the separate elements (legal, polemical, historical, dogmatic, apocryphal) that make up the collection are subject to its general purpose. As for the apocrypha, they can be said to present some biblical point of view. In particular, the Testament of Abraham illustrates the idea of justice and the relationship between human and Divine justice. Human justice serves earthly purposes, and always, even the most just one, implies the idea of punishment, while Divine justice is based on mercy and seeks the salvation of the human soul.

Благовеста Иванова. Българският архитектурен комплекс на Златния рог. София, Изд. „Парадигма“, 2018. 471 с.

Author(s): Yordan Zhelev / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

Book Review

PREZENTĂRI BIBLIOGRAFICE

Author(s): Maxim Moraru,Stelian Gombos,Cătălin Varga,Răzvan Fibișan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 07-09/2020

Joannesa Molanusa recepcja trydenckiego dekretu o obrazach

Author(s): Dariusz Klejnowski-Różycki / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 20/2020

Przykłady łamania reguły zakonnej przez kanoników regularnych z Żagania w średniowieczu w świetle kroniki klasztornej

Author(s): Zbigniew Witczak / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2020

Życie wewnętrzne w średniowiecznych klasztorach nie zawsze przebiegało w zgodzie z przyjętymi zasadami, które z założenia powinny być przecież rygorystycznie przestrzegane. Dotyczyło to zarówno braci, ojców, wyższych funkcyjnych klasztornych, a nawet samych opatów. Kronika klasztoru kanoników regularnych w Żaganiu dostarcza nam wielu przykładów łamania reguły zakonnej. Nadużywanie alkoholu, zbyt częste kontakty z kobietami czy nieposłuszeństwo wobec przełożonych – to tylko niektóre z problemów, z którymi borykali się żagańscy kanonicy. Wydaje się, że w takim zabytku dziejopisarstwa średniowiecznego pokazywane powinny być raczej pozytywne przykłady, które miały zachęcać do cnotliwego postępowania, a nie negatywne czyny, a nawet zbrodnie. Okazuje się jednak, że prezentacja tego, co złe, miała charakter dydaktyczny. Pokazywała czytającym, jak nie należy postępować, czego unikać, aby nie ściągnąć na siebie i cały konwent nieszczęść, oskarżeń albo gniewu – czy to braci, czy przełożonego konwentu. Informacje o grzechach i występkach pełniły również funkcję kontrastującą, podkreślając, jak wprowadzone reformy życia wewnętrznego przez dobrych opatów wpływały na zmiany w sposobie postępowania i życia całego konwentu. Dzięki zaprezentowaniu pozytywnych i negatywnych przykładów te pierwsze widzimy jako jeszcze lepsze, jeszcze godniejsze naśladowania i zapamiętania.

Godność ludzka w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur

Author(s): Izabela Szerszeniewska / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2020

Godność ludzka ma uniwersalny, ponadkulturowy i ponadnarodowy charakter. Każdy człowiek od chwili narodzin aż do momentu śmierci powinien być traktowany z należytą godnością. Poszanowanie kultu przodków, stanowiące element ludzkiego życia w inherentny sposób wiąże się z godnością człowieka. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie znaczenia godności ludzkiej w kontekście poszanowania kultu przodków przedstawicieli różnych kultur.

W kleszczach koronawirusa

Author(s): Jerzy Grześkowiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

Krótka historia niemieckiej chadecji

Author(s): Tomasz Kycia / Language(s): Polish Issue: 682/2020

Niemiecka CDU – niegdyś partia środka – musi dziś zabiegać o masowo odchodzących wyborców. Alternatywa dla Niemiec podbiera chadekom wyborców konserwatywnych i prawicowych. Dorosłe już dzieci typowych wyborców CDU odnajdują zaś swoją polityczną reprezentację w rosnących w siłę Zielonych.

Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор

Author(s): Mirko Mlakar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2021

Review of: Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Војислав Јанић (1890–1944). Свештеник и политичар. Поглед кроз аналитички прозор (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2018), 482 str. Mirko Mlakar - Радмила Радић, Мисија британске Хришћанске заједнице младих људи у Краљевини Југославији (Београд: Институт за новију историју Србије, 2019), 375 str.

Из началната история на българската църква в Браила през ХІХ в.

Author(s): Nikolay Zhechev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article tells about the early history of the Bulgarian church in the Romanian town of Braila in the third quarter of the 19th century. In this city at that time there was a large Bulgarian emigrant community, resettled there mainly after the Russo-Turkish war of 1828–1829. It was distinguished by its active economic and socio-cultural activities and in the 1860s turned the city into the cultural capital of the Bulgarian diaspora in Romania. There was a Bulgarian school there, Bulgarian newspapers were published, Bulgarian printing houses functioned; prominent Bulgarian writers, playwrights, publicists such as Dobri Voynikov, Vasil Drumev, Hristo Botev lived and worked in the city for some time… The Bulgarian Literary Society (predecessor of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) was founded there (in 1869), a community center and other social and cultural organizations operated, and a fruitful theatrical activity developed. But even in the 1860s, the Bulgarian community still did not have its own church to worship in their native language. The article traces, on the basis of the currently available documentary and other sources, the preparation and implementation of the construction of the Bulgarian Church of the Ascension of Christ in Braila, carried out mainly in the years 1868–1875. This endeavor was guided by the elected church boards, which managed to mobilize for this purpose the spiritual potential and material resources of the Bulgarian community there. The funds for the construction of the temple were raised through voluntary donations and loans, in which representatives of all strata of the Bulgarian diaspora participated: rich merchants and bankers, as well as smaller merchants, craftsmen, innkeepers, gardeners, etc., as well as many activists of the local intelligentsia, active participants in the national liberation movement, etc. Thus, the construction of the Bulgarian church in Braila, which still exists today – a century and a half later, became a real nationwide affair and despite some accompanying negative phenomena, became one of the most positive and successful pages in the history of Bulgarian emigration to Romania.

Sprawozdanie z sympozjum naukowego Maryja w teologii i sztuce chrześcijańskiej, Stadniki, 6 maja 2021 roku

Author(s): Leszek Poleszak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Report from the scientific symposium Mary, Mother of God, in theology and Christian art, Stadniki, May 6th, 2021

„За нашите пари място намериха, а нашите думи и молби под камък оставиха“: Петко Р. Славейков и българският църковен въпрос през 1858 година

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

In 1858 Petko R. Slaveykov (1827–1895) was already an influential public figure in his homeland – the regions of Tarnovo and Tryavna. Gradually, it was becoming more and more visible nationally – especially in the field of the church struggle against the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its metropolitans on Bulgarian lands. Slaveykov’s literary endeavors were becoming more and more recognizable. In this context, one of his unpublished and unknown pamphlets is presented and interpreted in the paper. The attribution of the manuscript is based on a wide range of data – archival, biographical, literary. The connection with the other components of the writer’s work is implemented through facts, topics and language specifics. The full text of the manuscript is presented in compliance with the current rules for publishing archival materials from the Revival epoch.

Cultural-Religious Context of Translation Style. On Euthymius Atoneli’s Translations

Author(s): Irakli Orzhonia / Language(s): English,Greek, Modern (1453-) Issue: 11/2021

This article discusses the original translation style of St. Euthymius the Athonite (10th11th centuries), a great Georgian monk working in the Iviron Monastery of Athos (Greece), which was called an ‘omission-addition style’ in the scientific literature, and was entirely conditioned not by linguistic but by cultural-religious context. The main goal of the article is to examine that unique phenomenon we are dealing with in the form of his translations, that sheds light on how a translator may turn linguistic tools into cultural vectors of a society, a country, determining the main path for spiritual and intellectual development of the nation in a particular historical epoch and along the centuries. From the rich Greek theological literature, Euthymius the Athonite selected for translation those works that would best reflect the knowledge accumulated in that field at the time, and presented them to Georgian readers, still less knowledgeable in theological matters, in such a way that would best suit them and strengthen their Christian faith, on the one hand, and introduce them to the advanced Western thought, on the other. Research focus is on the translations of theological content. Based on the comparative analysis of the Greek-Georgian texts, I examine those methods and means that Euthymius the Athonite used to keep the Georgian nation from possible religious threats, misunderstandings, and difficulties that accompanied the misinterpretation of religious texts in the Middle Ages. Euthymius the Athonite laid a solid foundation for the process of Europeanization of Georgian literature and culture, which his descendants continued with dignity.

Le statut juridictionnel des paroisses catholiques au Kosovo-et-Métochie au Moyen Age

Author(s): Dragana Janjić / Language(s): French Issue: 3-4/2021

The emergence of the first Catholic parishes in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija is related to the development of mining, mainly in the settlements of German miners Saxons and the colony of traders from the coastal parts of the Serbian medieval state (Cattaro, Dubrovnik, etc.). The significance and influence of these trading colonies has experienced its climax at the time of the Serbian despots, while the question of the spiritual and administrative authority over these parishes reflects the pretensions of certain Catholic ecclesiastical centers to protect the interests and rights in the exercise of their obligations.