Heavenly Images and Invisible Wars: Seven Categories of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Imagery and Terminology in the Acts of the Martyrs of Lyons and...

Author(s): Andrei-Dragoş Giulea / Language(s): English Issue: 01-02/2006

The Christian document of the second century known under the title the Acts of the Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne provides a number of various Greek and Jewish biblical and extra-biblical images and terminologies. The present study intends to identify these terminologies and classify them if possible into categories. Based on the insights of several previous scholars and adding my own investigations, I propose seven types of metaphors or terminologies that constitute the composite texture of the document.

Åke Ohlmarks And The ‘Problem’ Of Shamanism

Author(s): Andreas Åkerlund / Language(s): English Issue: 01-02/2006

The most famous work of the Swedish scholar Åke Ohlmarks (1911-1984) is his book Studien zum Problem des Schamanismus (“Studies on the Problem of Shamanism”). Written in 1939 this book has oft been seen as one of the earliest books treating the topic of ‘shamanism’ as such.

Fonction épistémologique et normative du daimôn dans l’antiquité tardive

Author(s): Aurélie Goudal / Language(s): French Issue: 01-02/2006

“L’étude du daimôn n’est pas nouvelle : le daimôn dans l’Antiquité, le daimôn chez Plutarque, le daimôn dans la démonologie des premiers siècles chrétiens ont été l’objet de recherches nombreuses1. Cependant, là où le concept de daimôn et la question de la possession démoniaque ou de l’exorcisme s’expliquaient principalement par des institutions sociales2 (genre imposé par l’Église, par les hautes sphères de la société en tant qu’objet régulateur des problèmes sociaux), nous allons montrer qu’une dimension psychologique s’impose dans l’explication de la perpétuation et du succès de telles croyances. La reprise du concept de daimôn, son changement de sens, et l’essor de croyances en la possession démoniaque et en l’exorcisme ne s’expliquent pas que par des vecteurs sociaux (bien que ceux-ci soient importants). Pour ce faire, nous allons exposer des récits de sources hagiographiques de l’Antiquité tardive, mis en lumière au moyen d’autres témoignages de l’époque (littéraires, archéologiques, iconographiques). Il s’agit de comprendre des passages littéraires exposant une action constante d’une entité négative, Diable ou”[…]

L’imaginaire thanatologique dans l’islam primitif et le soufisme médiéval

Author(s): Silviu Lupaşcu / Language(s): French Issue: 01-02/2006

“L’imaginaire sacrificiel et l’imaginaire thanatologique dans l’islam primitif. Dans l’espace religieux de l’islam, la relation entre le sacrifice et la mort diffère sensiblement par rapport aux structures sacrificielles-thanatologiques relevées dans l’espace religieux juif et l’espace religieux chrétien. Si en islam le sacrifice retrouve la signification sémitique archaïque d’offrande sanglante apportée à la proximité du sanctuaire, il perd néanmoins les connotations chrétiennes concernant le martyre du Messie. Du point de vue théologique et thanatologique, le sacrifice en islam se définit par de complexes rapprochements avec le hajj1 (le « Pèlerinage » à la Mecque) et avec le jihad (l’ « effort » d’atteindre l’accomplissement religieux de l’être humain, mais aussi la « guerre sainte »). Dans le hajj, comme dans le jihad, le croyant fait don de sa vie, de son être, à Dieu, pour expérimenter l’intensité de la vie religieuse à l’apogée. Un premier encadrement exégétique vise la connexion entre la notion de sacrifice et la notion de hajj.”[…]

Old News Concerning Peter Mogila’s Orthodox Confession: The First Edition Revisited

Author(s): Dragoş Mîrşanu / Language(s): English Issue: 01-02/2006

Since 1894, the rigorous judgment of Émile Legrand has settled authoritatively the details of publication of the first edition of Peter Mogila’s ‘Orthodox Confession of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East’ as Holland and 1667.

Le mythos au Service du meurtre tragique d’Euripide

Author(s): Elena Vaou / Language(s): French Issue: 01-02/2006

L’étude pragmatique du mu'qo" démontre que le terme est utilisé dans les tragédies d’Euripide non pour désigner un récit, un « mythe », mais une parole. La voix qui énonce, liée à des actes de mise à mort violents, crée non seulement les images mais aussi les émotions définissant un spectacle tragique. Divers exemples, tirés de différentes tragédies et étudiés dans leur contexte, donnent à voir une fonction dramaturgique du mu'qo" . Sa performance scénique crée un discours tant spectaculaire qu’éphémère, lié en dernière analyse à la mort tragique.

Die legende als Literarische Wallfahrt

Author(s): Gabriel H. Decuble / Language(s): German Issue: 01-02/2006

“Ein Gebäude mit vielen Erbauern und einem einzigen Baumeister. Dass die Legende als Gattung der religiösen Literatur der Erbauung diene, wurde bisher von keinem Theoretiker angezweifelt. Vielleicht gerade deswegen wurde dem Wort ‘Erbauung’ lange Zeit keine wissenschaftliche Ergründung zuteil. Die Moderne machte von ihm Gebrauch mit der Selbstverständlichkeit einer alltäglichen Sprachgebärde, ohne dabei bemerkt zu haben, dass die wiederentdeckten mittelalterlichen Legenden keine Erbauungsschriften im Sinne des Pietismus waren.1 Es ist das Verdienst Rolf Schulmeisters, diesen Begriff anhand einer gelehrten Studie, deren Weg freilich durch das monumentale Werk eines Henri de Lubac2 auf dem Gebiet der mittelalterlichen Exegese geebnet wurde, erst einmal gründlich erörtert zu haben. Schulmeister machte auf die semantische Falle3 aufmerksam, die dieser Begriff in sich birgt, und sammelte Belege für die verschiedenen Deutungen, die ihm in Spätantike und Mittelalter zugeschrieben wurden.”[…]

Pettazzoni e la rivista Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni

Author(s): Leonardo Sacco / Language(s): Italian Issue: 01-02/2006

Rileggendo alcuni tra i primi scritti che Pettazzoni dedicò alla Storia delle religioni, sappiamo che tra le sue priorità v’era la creazione di una biblioteca speciale e di una rivista1. Ciò nondimeno è solo approfondendo la ricerca che possiamo intuire quanto tale desiderio fosse antico: l’idea di dare alle stampe una pubblicazione specialistica, infatti, risale almeno al 19092. Nel corso di quell’anno, Pettazzoni prese possesso del suo ufficio di Roma presso il Museo Preistorico, Etnografico e Kircheriano — poi denominato Luigi Pigorini — in qualità d’Ispettore, ed iniziò a svolgere il suo incarico con instancabile alacrità3

Giuseppe Tucci entre études orientales, ésotérisme et fascisme (1894-1984)

Author(s): Hans Thomas Hakl / Language(s): French Issue: 01-02/2006

“Ces mots, qui surprennent venant de la part d’un scientifique, ont été prononcés par Giuseppe Tucci, un homme que le professeur américain Donald S. Lopez, spécialiste des études bouddhistes et tibétaines, a qualifié de « plus grand tibétologue du XXe siècle »2. Tucci n’était néanmoins pas seulement tibétologue : il s’est également intéressé à l’Inde, à la Chine et au Japon avec la même intensité, sondant tous les aspects culturels de ces pays, que ce soit leur histoire, leur philosophie ou encore leur art et leur religion. Il est connu en particulier comme l’un des plus grands spécialistes du bouddhisme et de ses courants ésotériques. Il était à la fois traducteur de nombreux textes, archéologue renommé3, peut-être le dernier grand explorateur tel qu’on se le figure, parcourant plusieurs milliers de kilomètres à pied et se défendant arme au poing contre des hordes de brigands, collectionneur exceptionnel d’objets d’art en provenance d’Extrême-Orient et propriétaire de la plus grande bibliothèque tibétaine que l’on ait pu trouver en dehors des frontières de”[…]

Nota sulla continuità della dottrina dell’apocatastasi in Gregorio di Nissa dal De anima et resurrectione all’in illud: tunc et ipse filius

Author(s): Ilaria L.E. Ramelli / Language(s): Italian Issue: 01-02/2006

In this article I endeavour to demonstrate that St Gregory of Nyssa continued to support the doctrine of apokatastasis over a long period and never rejected it in any way. I first analyse his De anima et resurrectione, which belongs to an early phase of his production, and then his In illud: Tunc et ipse Filius, which is a later writing. In the latter, the doctrine of apokatastasis is, if possible, even more strongly asserted. The close analysis of Gregory's arguments in these works clearly demonstrates that he heavily depends on Origen not only for his main point but also in many and many single elements.

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Od jednog do drugog monoteizma

Author(s): Marko P. Đurić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 73/2016

Since it is known that there is a specific Christian notion of God, in this article I talk about two kinds of monotheism. On one hand, we know for Islamic (Quranic) and Old Testament monotheism, and on the other hand, we remember the Christian Trinitarian monotheism. However, even among Christians, there are differences in the view of one God. In this regard, I always remember the famous Harnack’s lectures in Berlin entitled “The Essence of Christianity”. In one of his lectures, Adolf von Harnack says: “Not the Son but the Father belongs to the gospel as Jesus signalled” (Leksikon temeljnih religijskih pojmova, Prometej, Zagreb, 2005 p. 72). Starting from rational thinking, according to which one can never be three but always remains one, Trinitarian belief in God cannot be defended by rational arguments. It therefore cannot be justified in our minds. Since God in Himself is determined differently in the Qur’an than in Christianity, therefore, there is another reason why a Muslim does not accept the Christian’s faith in God.

Marsyliusz z Padwy jako teolog

Author(s): Mieszko Pawlak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The article presents the theological theories of Marsilius of Padua, one of the most original thinkersof the late Middle Ages. This aspect of Marsilius thought is often overlooked, as most researcherstend to concentrate on his political ideas. The author of the article first analyzes the foundations ofMarsilius’ theology – his vision of salvation, the quasi-pelagian notion of grace, the concept divine lawand the definition of the Church. Also analyzed in detail is the notion of priesthood and the conceptof authority in the Church – his conciliar theory and rejection of the papal primacy. According to theauthor, Marsilius’ theology was radically anti-papal, anti-clerical. To a certain degree it anticipatedtheological ideas of the Reformation.

O idei Polskiego Forum Chrześcijańskiego

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

The Global Christian Forum was established in 1998 as a platform for open dialogue between major Christian confessions to discuss pressing challenges facing Christians today. The Polish Christian Forum finds its identity as drawn from the idea of the Global Christian Forum (www.globalchristianforum.org). The forum defines itself not as any new organization, association or union of the churches, but as a meeting place, as a space to learn about each other, space of cooperation and common testimony, without formal membership of the entities interested in Forum’s initiatives. The article about the idea of the Polish Christian Forum presents the following issues: changes in the world religious landscape; the beginnings of the Global Christian Forum; a new space for new challenges; basic objectives of the Christian Forum; formation of the Polish Christian Forum; conclusion.

Polska Rada Ekumeniczna i jej znaczenie dla ekumenicznego dialogu

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

Seventy-year history of the Polish Ecumenical Council and its dialogical character is particularly significant for the history of the Ecumenical Church Council and the history of a dialogical attitude of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. The Roman Catholic Church has been involved in the ecumenical dialogue since the constitution Lumen gentium (1964) which was issued during the II Vatican Council, the decree on ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio (1964) and the encyclical Ut unum sint (1995), which was written by the pope John Paul II, who tried to treat an ecumenical dialogue as an important ecumenical factor; it was understood both widely (as an ecumenical dimension of all ecumenical activities) and narrowly (as a doctrinal dialogue), which makes us pay particular attention to local dialogical structures that aim to get rid of still existing discrepancies, both in doctrines and practical forms of cooperation. It is evidenced by the history of mutual relationships between local churches in Poland, which conduct bilateral and multilateral dialogues. “Ecumenical Encyclopedia of Poland (1964-2014)” was issued in 2016 and it stresses the importance of inter-denominational doctrinal dialogues in Poland as an unusual achievement which plays “a key role in the striving for visible unity” of Christians from various traditions, which in the last 70 years have been gathered in the ecumenical structure of the Polish Ecumenical Council in its dialogical relations with the Roman Catholic church and vice versa of the Roman Catholic Church with the Polish Ecumenical Council. The following commissions played a particular role in this process: Mixed Commission consisting of the PEC members and the members from the Ecumenism Commission of the Polish Episcopate and Dialogue Sub-commission. This was the aim of the author of this article, who on the basis of multilateral dialogue related to the sacrament of baptism, attempted to confirm the thesis “the impossible becomes possible”, which is proclaimed by the ecumenists. Consequently, brotherly and sisterly relations can deepen in order to “achieve unity in truth”. For this reason the first part of this article presents the origins and development of the Polish Ecumenical Council; the second part contains ecumenical and dialogic initiatives of the Council and Roman Catholic church, while the third one demonstrates the results of local dialogues in Poland, which were conducted by the above mentioned church subjects; it is based on the incredible example regarding “the sacrament of baptism as a sign of unity” by which the “Declaration of Polish churches on the threshold of the third millennium” confirms bilateral dialogues, which aimed to finalize mutual recognition of the importance of baptism in the above mentioned ecclesial structures.

Birla mandir – współczesne hinduistyczne kompleksy świątynne jako przykład modernizacji przez powrót do tradycji. Sprawozdanie z badań terenowych (styczeń/luty 2016 rok)

Author(s): Marta Kudelska,Agnieszka Staszczyk,Agata Świerzowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

European Islam – as an Identity Proposal for Modern Man. A Conference Report

Author(s): Marek Moroń / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Wspólnota obszarów pamięci. Sprawozdanie z otwarcia wystawy Obszar pamięci – Muzeum Mazowieckie w Płocku, 4 marca 2016 roku

Author(s): Paulina Tendera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016