Contribuţia reprezentanţilor Bisericii la realizarea Unirii de la 1 Decembrie 1918

Author(s): Ioan-Cristian Ștefan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

It is a well-known fact that the romanian orthodox and united romanian priests from the intracarphatic territories played a vital role not only in the moral and cultural life of their faithful, but also in the romanian political-national life. The Church was the only national institution of the Transylvanian romanians, and as such its ruler became, in fact, their national leader. Servants of the ancestral Church have always been with their believers. They were present in the battles which our people had for national independence. The clergy was also present in the great events of the years 1821, 1848, 1859, 1877, 1907 and 1916-1918. So, many Church servants have fought, through word and especially by deed, for the realization of our state unity.

Importanţa muzicii bisericeşti în contextul desfăşurării vieţii liturgice a Bisericii

Author(s): Teofil-Ovidiu Stan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Since ancient times, music has been put into the service of humanity's education, due to its power to excite and shape the human soul. The ancients' belief was that music exerts a certain action on the soul, the soul stimulates the nervous system, and it influences and normalizes the pulsations of the heart and, through them, the entire physiological state of the body; the body being purified, makes the soul fit for spiritual activity. As a conclusion, it is imperative to revalorise the atitude of all Orthodox Christians to church music, which must be regarded as an essential form of religious manifestation. The songs of our holy service are the center of our church spirituality. That is why religious services must be made as worthy as possible, as accurate as possible, and be as appealing to the faithful of our day.

Neuroteologie ve vztahu k teologii a religionistice

Author(s): Jaroslav Franc / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2021

Theology and religious studies have been draw to the context of the natural sciences since the beginning of the twentieth century at the latest. The natural sciences in general and neuroscience in particular, seek to answer the question of the origin and nature of the religious phenomenon apart from the theology and religious studies. Andrew Newberg defined the field of neurotheology and due to his definition presented neurotheology as a partner for theology and religion. The article deals with the method of neurotheology and with its relation to theology and religious studies.

CREAȚIA ÎNTRE ADEVĂRUL REVELAT ȘI SPECULAȚIILE IDEOLOGICE. VOINȚA LIBERĂ A LUI DUMNEZEU – FUNDAMENT AL LIBERTĂȚILOR OMULUI

Author(s): Gheorghe Istodor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2021

Creation remains proof of the existence and work of God, of a loving, responsible, and „involved” God. God’s revelation reveals the mystery of God’s creation, Scripture, and Tradition help man penetrate this mystery in part. The secular alternatives of God’s creation are in the sphere of naturalistic-materialistic evolution and naturalistic-atheist evolutionism, with theistic accents in the case of theistic evolutionism. Creationist alternatives (scientific creationism and intelligent project) are ideological manifestations that equally distort the Godly Revelation. God’s free, creative will is and remains the foundation of man’s essential rights and freedoms.

BİLGİ SOSYOLOJİSİ VE DİN SOSYOLOJİSİ İLİŞKİSİ

Author(s): İrfan Akpinar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2021

Knowledge has existed at every stage of human life as a product of the mental activities and social interactions that human beings attempt to know themselves, to make sense of life and to control the environment. In this sense, knowledge is the result of both a need and a curiosity. Religious knowledge is probably the first kind of information that human beings resorted to in order to satisfy this need and curiosity. In fact, man's helplessness and fear in the face of natural events led him to believe in a supreme being that would free him from all his fears and instill confidence. In this article, the relationship between knowledge and religion will be examined sociologically in the historical process and the approaches of sociology of knowledge and sociology of religion by Peter L. Berger and T. Luckmann will be analyzed.

DARWIN W SPORZE Z CHRZEŚCIJAŃSTWEM? PROBLEMY TEORII EWOLUCJI

Author(s): Marek Bielecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2021

Since the publication of Charles Darwin’s flagship work on the origin of species, it has been commonly believed that there is a dispute between evolution and the Christian vision of creation. The former refers to long-term processes, often accidental, that introduce changes in the organisms of creatures. The Christian vision of creation sees its origins in an act of God. The problem with the acceptance of the theory of evolution is the alleged conflict between reason and faith. The article is divided into four main parts in which the Darwinian concept of evolution is presented and the problem of God’s omnipotence in the context of Darwin’s theory and the relationship between theology and the Magisterium and the Darwinian vision of creation are discussed. The conclusion emphasized the necessity of cooperation between the order of faith and the order of reason, which strive to know the truth, of which there is only one.

EARLY CHILDHOOD IN TODAY’S FAMILY. THE CHRISTIAN LANDMARKS IN THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN

Author(s): Mihaela Brânză / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Early childhood represents the most important developmental period. Parents are nowadays confronted with serious challenges in their educational strivings. Many young spouses choose to learn about child psychology to overcome the difficulties raised by a baby’s presence. Christian parents delineate their educational efforts by taking into consideration God’s commandments. Prayer and patience are combined so that a loving dialogue conducts all the family interactions. Pre-schoolers are extremely attentive to what their parents do every day. Their kind gestures and words form the child’s personality. Participation in the liturgical program of a church proves the authentic faith of the parents. Accustomed to the intense atmosphere of a dynamic ecclesial community, the Christian children are taught how to use theological teaching in their daily life. They learn important rules and limits about emotional reactions, expressing compassion, and loving their family, friends, and even strangers. The model provided by mum and dad always had a formative effect. Christian parents instil in their children the willingness to follow love, faith, and trust as the main virtues that a human being can hope for.

Daniel D e n n e t t, Alvin P l a n t i n g a, Nauka i religia. Czy można je pogodzić?, tł. M. Firman, Ł. Kwiatek, Copernicus Center Press, Kraków 2014, ss. 142.

Author(s): Karol Jasiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2015

CONSEQUENCES OF AN ANALYSIS USING BIBLICAL ANALOGIES FOR AUTOMATED VEHICLE CONTROL DESIGN

Author(s): Balázs Németh / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The paper proposes an analysis of learning-based approaches for automated vehicle control systems from an ethical viewpoint. An analysis using analogies between selected biblical texts and operation concepts of learning-based approaches is performed. Thus, analogies for supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning-based approaches are created. Through the analogies, the root of the automatic control design problems, i.e. forming objective functions, on a theological level is explored. The analysis leads to three consequences, which are related to the difficulty of forming control objective, the difficulty of considering human objectives in control, and the necessity of viewing systems in all their complexity. The paper proposes the application of the consequences in an illustrative route selection vehicle control example. A multi-layer control concept involving the consequences of the analysis is proposed, with which some ethical challenges of the selected control problem can be handled.

JONATHAN SACKS: KÉZ A KÉZBEN – ISTEN, TUDOMÁNY ÉS AZ ÉRTELEMKERESÉS

Author(s): Zsolt Sándor Hover / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2022

Review of: Jonathan Sacks: Kéz a kézben – Isten, tudomány és az értelemkeresés. Könyv Népe Kiadó, Budapest, 2022. 404 oldal. ISBN 9786155637247

FAZAKAS SÁNDOR – KOVÁCS KRISZTIÁN (SZERK.): „MIELŐTT MEGFORMÁLTALAK AZ ANYAMÉHBEN...”. AZ ÉLET KEZDETÉN FELMERÜLŐ DÖNTÉSEK KERESZTYÉN ETIKAI MEGKÖZELÍTÉSE

Author(s): Sarolta Püsök / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2022

Review of: Fazakas Sándor – Kovács Krisztián (szerk.): „Mielőtt megformáltalak az anyaméhben...”. Az élet kezdetén felmerülő döntések keresztyén etikai megközelítése (Szociáletikai Intézet kiadványai /SzIK 8.), Kiadja a Debreceni Református Hittudományi Egyetem Szociáletikai Intézete, Debrecen, 2020, ISBN 978–615–5853–32–6, 336. old.

Sustainable Integrative All-Life Learning as Pragmatic Level in the DIMLAK hetero-hierarchic paradigm to Achieve Advanced Knowledge

Author(s): Ioan Pop,Ioan Popa-Bota,Ilie Soritau / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

A new transdisciplinary perspective on the integration of knowledge is introduced in the context of the informergic society/economy (KBS/E) to achieve, share and implement the knowledge giving the openness to a better understanding of the world, using sustainable, integrative all-life learning. A new more complete perspective on the well-known system of knowledge integration, based on a five steps scale in a synergistic-generative transdisciplinary process to achieve, transfer and implement knowledge in the knowledge-based society/economy (KBS/E) context is configured, connecting DIMLAK knowledge paradigm to Knowledge Integration Management (KIM). It presents a possible connection between the all¬life, sustainable, integrative learning and the DIMLAK hetero-hierarchic paradigm of knowledge in the biblical context, the heaven ladder from Sychar.

The Effect of Total Quality Service with E-Bekal on Customer Satisfaction

Author(s): Hasan Baharun,Zamroni Zamroni,Abd Hamid Wahid,Chusnul Muali / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This study aims to examine the public's perception of the services quality provided by the Nurul Jadid Islamic Boarding School through the application of E-Bekal as an Islamic boarding school innovation in the face of the Revolution 4.0 era. The quantitative correlational approach was applied in this investigation. The data was gathered through observation and the distribution of questionnaires. A total of 125 people were surveyed, including guardians and alums. Somers'D correlation analysis was used to do the data analysis. The findings show that total quality service has a joint influence on customer expectations and satisfaction with the quality of services provided by Nurul Jadid Islamic Boarding School through the application of the E-Bekal santri service, with a significance value of 0.05 and has a positive correlation with the coefficient value of 0.863 on the customer expectation variable, and 0.540 on the satisfaction variable. Consumer expectations and satisfaction are both influenced by total quality service.

DESPRE BIBLIILE SATANICE, CARE INDUC ÎN EROARE ȘI REDAU BLASFEMIC „CUVÂNTUL LUI DUMNEZEU”

Author(s): N. Grigorie Lăcrița / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 54/2023

There are dozens of websites on the Internet that present the Bible with numerous and unacceptable errors, leading to a serious deviation from the correct rendering of the “Word of God”. The Jews had and have a tradition, with the power of the “Eternal Law”, which says that if all the people in the world tried to abolish the smallest letter of the “Law of God”, it would not be possible for them to succeed. To do so would be to enter into so great a guilt, they judged, that the world would be destroyed. According to the Bible, Luke 16:17 and Matthew 5:18, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a piece of the “Law” to fall from a piece of a sloe, a horn of a letter, a circlet, an iota, a horn of a slow, a point, a tail, or a dot of a letter. Some satanic individuals, without faith in God, have had in their minds the Luciferic thought of pirating numerous Bibles, well translated, some even very well, and presenting them on the Internet, in electronic format, with numerous and serious writing errors, especially without diacritics, with misspelled words, which makes those Bibles misleading, distorted, erroneous renderings of the ‘Word of God’, which is blasphemy, a defamation of the holy, religion, divinity, dogma, objects of worship and the religious feelings of millions of believers. The impostors - preachers, by pirating, in electronic format, any Bible written correctly in the original, by wrongly rendering the “Word of God” for public use, are blasphemers, they are nullity, hypocrites, who, elevated to power, or to any possible rank, still remain nullity!

Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite on the notion of time

Author(s): Elena Ene D-Vasilescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Pseudo-Dionysius knew Plato’s texts and those of his descendants well. His familiarity with their works, especially with the dialogue Timaeus, becomes evident in the way he treats the notion of time. Here is where this concept is presented as ‘a moving image of eternity’, an idea to which Dionysius adheres.The Syrian thinker Christianizes the term and sees is as series of ‘upliftings’ and ‘returns’ towards the principle of life, God. He believes that people live both in time and in eternity.

Ars legendi - Dorin Ștefănescu - Întâmpinarea sensului

Author(s): Dorin Ștefănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5-6/2023

Essay by Dorin Ștefănescu.

Despre lume și om ca medii necesare ale revelației divine

Author(s): Claudiu Baciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2022

Modern science is a spiritual creation with many roots, among them the religious belief that this world can be seen as one of the forms of divine revelation. Although only at the end of the Middle Ages did such a view become dominant, the Bible also demanded that man see nature and himself as being more than he can know and understand at present. We can consider science also the result of the last demand.

6 Şubat Kahramanmaraş Depremlerinde Din Hizmetleri: Manevi Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik Bağlamında Bir Saha Araştırması

Author(s): Abdullah İnce,Yunus Emre TEMİZ,Ziya Erdinç / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 50/2023

Natural disasters are one of the periods when the need for religious services emerges clearly. This need is clearly seen from the interpretation of disasters to the solution of post-disaster mental and spiritual problems. The Presidency of Religious Affairs, in coordination with other state institutions, provided various services in order to meet the needs of the individiual and the society after natural disasters. Spiritual counseling and guidance, which is one of the most important of these, is a service provided within the scope of meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of people after a disaster, keeping their morale high and making sense of the disaster. The study is based on the following question: What are the spiritual counseling services provided by the religious officials in the acute period after the disaster, and how do these services work? The aim of this research is to determine the current status of the Spiritual Counseling and Guidance (SCG) service, which is an essential component of the religious services offered in the provinces most affected by the earthquake, by the Presidency of Religious Affairs after Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes on February 6, 2023, through the observations made on the service providers and service recipients, and to develop recommendations. This study was carried out by focusing on the cultural analysis (ethnography) design, which is one of the qualitative research approaches. Participated and unattended observation was used as a data collection technique in the research, and a semi-structured observation form was used as a data collection tool. At the end of this field research, it was observed that under the current conditions, SCG services are not based on a systematic counselor-counselee relationship, but rather on a consolation process in which visits, asking about well-being, chatting, reciting the Qur’an, and praying come to the fore. As it was the the first weeks after the earthquake, it was found that it was common to provide spiritual counseling and guidance services (SCG) through funeral services, cemetery visits, conversations in mosques. It has been determined that the public`s approach to the services provided is positive, but the access to young people remains limited. One-to-one communication and regular visits by the Directorate of Religious Affairs officials with the disaster victims facilitated services other than spiritual counseling and guidance. Therefore, reducing the services provided by Directorate of Religious Affairs religious education only means not evaluating the service provided in the region sufficiently.