»… UND HAT UNTER UNS GEZELTET« (JOH 1,14B).DIE FLEISCHWERDUNG DES LOGOS IM LICHT DER SCHECHINA-THEOLOGIE

Author(s): Uta Poplutz / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2015

Der Spitzensatz des johanneischen Prologs Joh 1,14b „und das Wort ist Fleisch geworden und hat unter uns gezeltet“ weist durch den Begriff des „Zeltens“ als dauerhaften Mitseins Analogien zur jüdischen Weisheitsspekulation, insbesondere zu Sir 24 auf. Doch der Logos des Prologs handelt in gewisser Weise deutlich exklusiver als die Weisheit, indem er sich nicht inmitten seines Volkes niederlässt, sondern unlösbar an den Menschen Jesus von Nazaret bindet. Dabei lässt sich zeigen, wie die im Laufe der Jahrhunderte immer wieder modifizierte Schechina-Theologie im Johannesevangelium so transformiert wird, dass Jesus Christus selbst als die Schechina JHWHs erscheint: Er ist der neue Ort der Begegnung zwischen Gott und Mensch.

À propos de la notion de crise du clerge

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Author(s): Pablo F. Luna / Language(s): French / Issue: 7/2015

The author of the article reviews the concept of crisis of the clergy and its use by specialists. His analysis is based on the available literature and his own research. He has chosen three questions. The first concerns the financial crises of the clergy and their origins; the second – the dominion over temporal goods; the third – the weakening of the clergy’s grip on society. The author then proposes to redefine the chronology of the concept itself and also to review the changes imposed by the secularisation of European societies and the decline of the place of the clergy in society.

Áldott éhség és szomjúság. Úrvacsorai ima őszi hálaadásra

Author(s): Dénes Pálfi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

Árpád-házi szentek, az égi és földi hatalom letéteményesei

Author(s): Márta Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 08/2016

The rhetoric concerning the saints of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty involves the thought that the Hungarians are a special, chosen nation in political as well as in religious respect. The article is an attempt to establish a modern discourse on sainthood that is valid for religious people as well as in a scientific approach.

Čičaj, Viliam – Bernhard, Jan Andrea: Orbis Helveticorum. Das Schweizer Buch und seine mitteleuropäische Welt. Historický ústav Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava 2011

Author(s): Veronika Chmelarová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 44/2013

Értékrend nélküli értékrend

Author(s): Róbert-Donát Fábián / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 08/2016

Ítélet helyett szeretet

Author(s): Béla Botond Jakabházi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

Örökélet – dióhéjban

Author(s): Solymosi Alpár / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2015

Ötéves az Etalon filmkiadó

Author(s): Atilla Torgyán / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2012

Śląskie sanktuaria - miejsca zachowania transkulturowej ciągłości

Author(s): Jan Rabiej / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 43/2014

Sanctuaries are very special places for all religions, which are rooted in various, cultural settings. The essence of pilgrimage to them flows from a free choice of taking a trek, overcoming divisions as national borders and distinct ethnic, national or religious groups. Holy hills, wonderful sources and other natural relics of supernatural events, and above all, a silhouette of pilgrimage shrines are still recognizable signs of transcendent intuition, which are inscribed in human’s nature. In Silesia — the borderland — where precious threads of their traditions were located by Poles, Germans and Czechs for centuries. Sanctuaries create an extremely colorful mosaic of places — “the guest houses” such as: Wambierzyce in Lower Silesia, Mount St. Anne in the Opole and Piekary in Upper Silesia. They are engraved in the landscape thanks to recognizable qualities of architectural forms of churches, monasteries, calvary chapels and Pilgrim houses. As the history of Silesian sanctuaries proves, they have become an milieu of a local communities crystallization. In their light, generations of many nations grow up to overcome mutual differences, animosities or even a hostility fueled at times of wars, uprisings and subsequent occupations. Undoubtedly, an assimilation of newcomers from abroad, who settled in Silesia permanently, has occured in these places. These “houses” are still alive, as both religious centers and treasures of a widely implied notion of the culture.

Śmiać się czy umierać. Tertium non datum?

Author(s): Aleksandra Lojek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 01/2015

After the attack on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the world began asking questions about the limits of satire and freedom of expression, pointing to Islam as a symbol of imposed intellectual constraints. It turns out that views on this issue and on Islam are not at all uniform. They result from an iconoclastic heritage observed by some Muslims. A sense of humour is also a fluid and culturally sensitive feature – Muslims are able to laugh at themselves, but radicalism (not only Islamic) has always had a problem with self-deprecation. The author explains what iconoclasm in Islam, how the Muslim world of art is constructed, and why it is dangerous to generalize.

Śmierć grzesznika. Kilka uwag o Anatomii Martynusa Lutra i Relacyi a oraz suplice […] za predykantem Burchardym

Author(s): Dominika Gruntkowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2014

The article discusses the theme of death, flesh and body of sinners, heretics and the damned,according to Church. It analyses selected works by Jacobus de Voragine, Klemens Boleslawiusz(1625–1689), Józef Baka (1707–1780), Jan Chądzyński (17th century) and Jan Zrzenczycki(16/17th century). In particular, the analysis focuses on the differences between these texts indepicting flesh and the moment of death of the main characters. As a result, it is possible to pointout the fixed motifs and the styles of describing on the damned flesh. The analysis is based onthe historical and literary research on flesh and corporeality.

Śpiewy z Taizé – na drodze ku hezychii i ekumenii

Author(s): Wojciech Stepien / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 12/2016

In his study about the liturgical music after the Second Vatican Council Ireneusz Pawlak calls songs from Taizé „poor artistic music” (2001: 42). My article proves that songs of this French ecumenical community are based upon the rich music tradition and mostly of them are based on basso ostinato which was very popular in baroque (passamezzo, folia, chaconne). Texts of these songs use only a few, several times repeated words taken from the Bible and the Fathers of the Church. The melodic and harmonic repetitions have common roots with the practice of the incessant Jesus prayer in the East Church, described amongst others by John Cassian. This prayer generates the prayer of the heart which consequently gives hesychia: spiritual calmness and union with the God leading all believers to true ecumenism.

Średniowieczna apologia chrześcijaństwa wobec islamu

Author(s): Ireneusz S. Ledwon / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

The paper focuses on the issue of Christian apology vis-à-vis Islam in the Middle Ages. The author points out that the Christian attitude towards Islam evolved from associating it with an apocalyptic Antichrist, through seeing it as the fulfillment of Abraham’s promise given to Ishmael and a Christian heresy, up to the approval of Islam as a religion – initially deemed a false one, however with time, recognized as containing elements of the authentic truth revealed by God. Nicholas of Cusa’s original approach towards Islam failed to find followers and sank into oblivion. Over the next centuries the perception of Islam had been dominated by the Turkish threat to Europe and the era of European colonialism in Asia.

Średniowieczna mistyka kobiet jako osobliwy fenomen kulturowy średniowiecza

Author(s): Marzena Górecka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2005

Die mittelaterliche Frauenmystik bildet eines der zentralen Phänomene der europäischen Kultur und hat verschiedene Bereiche des kirchlichen und öffentlichen Lebens beeinflusst. Die aufgrund der sich wandelnden Rolle der Frau sowie subjektivistischer Tendenzen in der Theologie entstehende Frauenmystik bildet ein Pendant zur spekulativen Mystik der deutschen Dominikaner und durchläuft grundsätzlich drei Entwicklungsphasen: Die intellektuell-visionäre Phase, die durch Hildegard von Bingen und Elisabeth von Schönau repräsentiert wird (12. Jh.), die Liebes- bzw. Erlebnismystik des Hochmittelalters, deren Hauptvertreterin Mechthild von Magdeburg mit ihrem Werk Das Fließende Licht der Gottheit ist (13. Jh.), und die sogenannte sinnlich-reale Nonnenmystik, die vor allem in dominikanischen Kreisen im Süd- und Oberdeutschland blühte (14. und 15. Jh.). Ist die erste Phase durch ihren objektiven heilsgeschichtlichen Charakter gekennzeichnet, so wird die zweite von einem sehr individuellen und schöpferischen Stil geprägt. Die dritte Phase diente paränetischen Zwecken und hatte einen epigonalen Zug. Im vorliegenden Artikel stellt die Autorin die inhaltlichen und formalen Hauptmerkmale und Funktionen dieser drei Phasen an einigen ausgewählten Textfragmenten exemplarisch dar.

ŚRODOWISKO „TYGODNIKA POWSZECHNEGO” WOBEC DEMOKRACJI, LIBERALIZMU I KAPITALIZMU PO 1989 ROKU

Author(s): Marek Delong / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2007

In 1989 some representatives of „Tygodnik Powszechny” participated in the „Round Table” proceedings. The first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was closely related to the „Więź” magazine. Krzysztof Kozłowski and Henryk Woźniakowski – the editors of „Tygodnik Powszechny” were included in Mazowiecki’s cabinet. „Tygodnik Powszechny” enjoyed a high status in Polish society, both in the Polish People’s Republic period and afterwards. After Karol Wojtyła had been elected Pope, the magazine became the most influential representative of the Catholic press in Poland. It has always been known not only for the high standard Catholic publications but also for its openness to a variety of authors representing liberal trends. The issue of relations between the Catholic Church and liberal democracy and capitalism were often touched on in Tygodnik Powszechny after 1989. The most important point of reference was usually John Paul II’s encyclicals „Centesimus annus”, „Veritatis splendor” and „Evangelium vitae”. „Tygodnik Powszechny” is representative of the trend in Polish Catholicism which used to be closely connected with John Paul II, arousing much interest abroad. This particular trend within Polish Catholicism is said to be non-nationalist and antitotalitarian. It subscribes to a pluralistic system of values. However, as much as the „Tygodnik Powszechny” milieu is supportive of an open Catholicism and of a liberal orientation, it never gives up an issue of Polish Catholic specificity.

ŚVETĀŚVATARA-UPANISAD (TRADUCERE ADNOTATĂ)

Author(s): Ovidiu Cristian Nedu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2013

Śvetāśvatara Upanisad is a more recent classical Upanisad, belonging to the line of Krsna Yajur-Veda. Nevertheless, the text has always been regarded as one of high authority, being commented upon even by important authors, such as Śakara.Śvetāśvatara is famous for its brief but clear approach of the ultimate reality (Brahman), being one of the outstanding texts of this kind. Brahman is depicted under all its major aspects, generally found in the Upanisads: as fundamental reality, the Self of all individual beings, the primordial being (Purua), the realm of liberation, the ultimate subject, the principle of the world-cycle (brahmacakra).Several verses also discuss on the Universe, generally on the basis of some Sākhya categories.The whole text is imbued with a strong theistic feeling, much more visible than in case of most other Upaniads. Of a special interest are verses III.1-III.6, which identify the ultimate reality with the Vedic god Rudra, a violent and frightening deity. In order to “tame” him, the text calls him “siva” (“kind”, “benefic”) and, along time, the god Rudra would be known by the name “Śiva”. The text includes several other archaic elements, inherited from the Vedic tradition, such as verses II.1-II.7, where the ancient cult of the Sun is reinterpreted as a metaphor for the realization of Brahman.Much attention have received the Sāmkhya influences scattered in various parts of the text. There are some verses which make use of Sākhya categorical divisions or which speak in Sākhya terms, such as Īvara, Pradhāna, Prakti. Some classical ideas of Sākhya, such as the theory of the three “qualities” (guna) of manifestation and maybe even its dualism could be, at last, traced in Śvetāśvatara Upanisad

Św. Paweł Misjonarz w przesłaniu Dziejów Apostolskich

Author(s): Marek Dzik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 16/2009

The article “Saint Paul – the missionary as shown in the Acts of the Apostles” is divided into 3 parts: the missionary doctrine (of Saint Paul), the missionary tactics (of Saint Paul), the person of Saint Paul. In the first part, the author analyses the teaching of Saint Paul directed to the Jews, the pagans and Jesus’ disciples. The comparison between the teaching of the Jews and the teaching of the pagans is particularly interesting. The author notices no significant difference between them with the exception of one point. At the beginning Saint Paul teaches the pagans about one God rather than about Jesus Christ. When he teaches the Jews he speaks about Jesus directly, often trying to prove his God’s dignity basing on the Old Testament. The common topics are: the resurrection of Christ, his theological titles, the necessity of faith in Jesus Christ and the need for repentance and penance. In second part, the author presents the missionary tactics of Saint Paul; priority of the Jews before the pagans because salvation is from the Jews; the evangelization of the territories where earlier there were no another apostles, the evangelization of the main business und civilization centers. In the third part, the author presents the missionary character traits of Saint Paul; his devotion to Jesus Christ, the missionary cleverness and miracles which he performed which confirmed his being chosen by God.

Új eredmények a szentkultusz középkori történetének kutatásában

Author(s): Gábor Klaniczay / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 08/2016

This introductory essay provides a panorama of the renewal of hagiographical research related to the cult of Hungarian saints and other saints in medieval Hungary in the past decades. Starting with the late antique beginnings of the cult of the saints, with the Pannonia-born St. Martin, the overview follows a chronological line. After thesaints of the Christianization age – martyred missionaries, converting bishops, holy hermits –, the bulk of new Hungarian research concentrates on the royal saints of the Árpád dynasty.

Ústav „Stefania“ a pôsobenie Anglických panien v Prešove v rokoch 1882–1918

Author(s): Miroslava Špaková / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2016

The positive impact of secularization lies in the restoration of those religious orders and congregations which were responsible for the education of youth in the 19th century. These orders founded schools for young girls who were educated in manners, Christian doctrine prepared for their role as mothers. In Prešov, part of former Hungary, at present a city in Slovakia, the sisters of Mary Ward established a finishing school. The study captures the internal development of the school from its beginning to the point of the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic. More types of schools were located within the institute which shaped the overall character of the entire institution. This article is focused on lower secondary schools and senior girls schools.