„Skoro tak czynią, czyż nie są straszni w oczach bogów?” – wędrowni specjaliści rytualni w oczach autora De morbo sacro

Author(s): Przemysław Biernat / Language(s): Polish,Latin Issue: 6/2013

Hac in dissertatiuncula explanare conati sumus, quo modo sacrificuli et vates vagabundi descripti sint ab auctore ignoto Hippocratico in suo opere De morbo sacro, epilepsi sanandae dedicato. Brevem introductionem capitulum sequitur, in quo ipsius Hippocratici opiniones, quae ad naturam huius morbi necnon deorum pertinent, tractantur. Itaque Hippocraticus noster putavit hunc morbum false sacrum apellatum esse, quia omnes morbi partim divini et partim humani sunt neque est ullus divinior quam alii. Si autem sacrificuli et vates iactant se arcanam habere scientiam et sacris quibusdam deos constringere posse, eodem deos esse negant, quia homo solum rerum humanarum potens sit. In capitulo subsequenti in examen vocata sunt nomina, quae auctor Hippocraticus vatibus imposuit, praecipue autem usus nominum μάγος et καθαρτής apud Graecos. Ex hac analysi concludi potest magum vatem pravum significasse, purificatoris autem nomen et professionem magno in numero a Graecis habita esse. Magi cum purificatoribus coniuncti sunt ab auctore ut notionem purificationis quasi obnigrescerent et quod prius neque insolitum neque externum erat – vere antiquissimo more agebatur – nunc maximae esse impietatis putaretur.

Panegiryki św. Jana Chryzostoma De laudibus Sancti Pauli – kwestia struktury

Author(s): Joanna Szwed-Kostecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2013

Sanctus Iohannes, episcopus Constantinopolitanus, vir dicendi peritissimus fuit, quam ob rem Chrysostomus, id est „aureum os”, apellabatur. Plurima opera sua nobis reliquit, inter quae orationes Sancto Paulo dedicatas invenire possumus. Iohannes Sanctum Paulum Apostolum laudibus saepissime tulit. Praecipuo tamen cum affectu de Apostolo in septem orationibus disserebat, qui De laudibus Sancti Pauli nominabantur. Fere omnes viri et feminae doctae opinionem unam tulerunt Iohannem e scriptoribus prioribus hausisse, episcopum Constantinopolitanum eorum praecepta ad laudationes pertinentia potissimum secutum esse et locos communes novisse et eis usum esse quomodo voluit. Auctrix compositionem sermonum sancti episcopi investigans Manlio Simonetti sequitur, qui in sua disertatione multa de panegyricis Sancti Iohannis Chrysostomi dixit, eaque magni momenti, quamquam panegyricos de Sancto Paulo omisit. Quae cum ita sint, hac in disertatione auctrix interrogat, quibus ex aliis fontibus Chrysostomus hauserit? Quo modo suos sermones composuerit?

Hieronim ze Strydonu na progu europejskich strategii tłumaczeniowych

Author(s): Damian Sochacki Ocd / Language(s): Polish,Latin Issue: 6/2013

Auctor Hieronymi Stridonensis generem interpretandi in conspectum voluit ponere. Hieronymum Sridonensem argumenta multa ad artem vertendi pertinentia ad unum collegisse formaque epistulae consripsisse constat. Distinguere et segregare genera interpretandi suscepit. Auctor disserationis Hieronymum interpretem ac peritum scriptorum veterum, se Horatium, Ciceronem Quintillianemque revocando, artem vertendi Romanorum in aliam speciem mutavisse quam christiana nomine nuncupare possumus diluxit. Nostra aetate doctos de duobus modis vertendi loqui mentionem fecit: hoc primum in latinis litteris instrumentalem reddit, secundum enim graeco sermone έρμηνευτικόν vocat. Secundum auctorem apud Hieronymum de proprio usu doctrinae antiquorum nova oritur ratio interpretandi, inaedificanda in traditionem paganam ac christianam: de immutabili portabilique sensu agitur quod ad alteram linguam intepres potest transferre sive ordine custodiendo verborum sive sententiae forma commutanda. Auctor Hieronymum sensum vertendum e sensu translationi ad verbum anteposuisse explicavit et iustificavit se variis generibus interpretandi ad servandum sensum usum esse.

Marian Grabowski, Pomazaniec. Przyczynek do chrystologii filozoficznej, W drodze, Poznań 2010, ss. 268

Author(s): Karol Jasiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 53/2016

SÜNNETULLAH VE İNSANIN İRADESİ TEMELİNDE KADER

Author(s): Cüneyd Aydın,Ahmet Genç / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2016

In historical process, fate has been a fully subject for people’s minds with its exactly unknown feature. Nevertheless, people has never stayed away from thinking or discussing issues related both to this concept or matters about this concept. This case, as in other societies, it has maintained its relevance for the Islamic societies. In the early period of Islam, the reasoning about fate had been under debate by different schools. However, people of today's world, in thought structure of these schools, people are strained to find answers for the contemporary issues and they can misunderstand or they can’t understand exactly what these schools said about fate. In fact, as the centuries go by, the changes all over the world have a great effect about the emerge of this issue. The purpose of this article is to try to produce answers to some questions and issues about fate that occur in time and with the changes over the world and to take over some issues that is considered to be misunderstood about this subject.

O (nie)możliwości dialogu między religiami

Author(s): Ireneusz Ziemiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The author attempts to justify the claim that an authentic interreligious dialogue, conceived of as the common pursuit of the truth, is impossible. As the main reason the author indicates the fact that, at the starting point of such a pursuit, it would be necessary for an authentic believer in a religion to suspend his or her faith in the truth of this religion. This condition, however, cannot be accepted by any of the involved parties. Thus interreligious dialogue is possible merely in the form of converting those who believe differently, opposing beliefs considered as false, confirming one’s religious identity, or expression of one’s beliefs. Similar difficulties apply also to the ecumenical dialogue within Christianity.

İslam dünyasinda felsefi hareketler

Author(s): Ersin Savaş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 33/2017

Islamic philosophy can be described as the sum of the ideas of the Islamic world. For this reason Islamic philosophy should not be seen as a philosophical construction of Islamic religion. It would be more appropriate view Islamic philosophy as a philosophy in the Islamic world. In this article, three philosophical movements in the Islamic world have been studied. Maddiyyun is the first of these movements involving Ebu Bekir Zakariya Razi and Ibn Ravendi. The next one is the rationalist philosophical movement embracing Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Bacce and Ibn Rüşd. The third is the Isari philosophy movement in which Sühreverdi is defined as Isari. Except for the scholars mentioned so far, Kindi, Ghazali and Ibn Khaldun have also been tackled. In this article, document analysis has been used as the data collection technique. In the study, it has been concluded that Islamic philosophy has come into contact with other cultures and reached an eclectic structure with the accumulation in its own world.

Causes, forms and effects of social and moral confusion of the institutional Roman-Catholic Church in Poland

Author(s): Józef Baniak / Language(s): English Issue: 41/2016

The lostness of an individual or institution is manifested in their aversion towards conforming or adapting to the social and cultural conditions in which they are to function or carry out their fundamental tasks. Lostness affects secular institutions as well as religious institutions, including churches. In this paper I demonstrate the lostness of the institutional Roman Catholic Church in Poland over the past 25 years through the reflections of clergymen and theologians, as well as on the basis of sociological research findings. Theologians claim that this lostness also signifies the specific pastoral situation of the Church brought about by the systemic transformations in Poland over this period, previously unencountered by and unknown to the Church, hindering the Church’s functioning and inducing it to take erroneous decisions. Lostness takes on a variety of forms and is manifested in numerous spheres of the Church’s secular activities, but does not affect its essence or religious identity. However, it does embrace its functions and actions, its attitudes and its decisions,in the area of secular and political activity, its relations with society, and also in relations within the clerical community. Wording it differently, lostness applies to the human structure of the Church,and within this above all the bishops and leaders who guide it and manage its assets, and who also perform an instructional and educational function towards the Church’s faithful.

Pytanie o "światlo wiary" w perspektywie myśli Tomasza z Akwinu

Author(s): Jacek Salij / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2014

It seems that one of the reasons why the term "the light of Faith" occurs rarely in modern Church teaching is what today we do not distinguish clearly enough faith from convictions and worldview.

Wiarygodność wiary a zjawiska paranormalne

Author(s): Andrzej Andrewald / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The aim of those deliberation is focused on answering the questions: Can paranormal phenomena be attributed to a function in an act of faith? In this study paranormal phenomena are investigated on the background themes of the credibility of Christian faith. The whole discussion involves three stages: characterization of paranormal phenomena (1), clarification of the motives of the Christian faith and their verification of the example of a miracle (2), as well as presentation along with analysis challenges from the side of paranormal phenomena for the credibility of Christian faith (3).

Ekskluzywizm ewangelikalny

Author(s): Zbigniew Kubacki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Within the Christian theology of religions one distinguishes three basic paradigms: exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism. Pluralism considers all religions as equal ways of salvation leading to God. It denies that Jesus Christ is the unique Savior of the world. Inclusivism maintains the unicity and salvivic universality of Jesus Christ, but affirms that explicit faith in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation for unevangelized people. Exclusivism is the view that Jesus Christ is the only Savior of the world and that one must believe God’s special revelation that culminates in the gospel of Christ in order to be saved. Evangelical theologians principally maintain this position. Interestingly enough, on the one hand they affirm that children who die in infancy (as well as people who are mentally incompetent) are included within the circle of God’s saving grace and will be saved; on the other hand, they say that since the first coming of Christ the only way of salvation is explicit faith in him.

Model soteriologiczny oparty na kategorii zaufania. Hipoteza

Author(s): Grzegorz Strzelczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Numerous classic soteriological models are based on the concepts or experiences which are not clear for contemporary people. Therefore, there is an urgent need to propose new models which will be more comprehensible in the present cultural context. The article constitutes an attempt at constructing a soteriological model based on a category of trust, which primarily characterized both the relation of God to a human (the act of entrusting the world to a human) and of a human to God. The main hypothesis concerns the essence of the first sin, which is traditionally described as disobedience, whereas here we strive to prove that it consisted in taking back the human trust in God, which also resulted in taking back God’s trust in humans and in distorting the human’s image of God. Thus, God’s salutary action is pedagogical: it aims to restore in a human being an attitude of trust, whose ultimate realization is the human trust of Christ in God the Father. The act of entrusting His Son to humanity and the lack of punishing reaction to the murdering of His Son are the most significant expressions of the revelation of God as trustworthy. Whoever responds with faith (trust) to this revelation will be saved.

Maryja - "doskonala ikona wiary". Wokól autorstwa maryjnego wątku encykliki Lumen fidei

Author(s): Adam Wojtczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The article addresses two main questions: What image of Mary’s faith does the encyclical Lumen fidei portray? What fruits does the encounter of Mary’s faith and the faith of the Church bring out? The subtitle suggests one more issue: since the encyclical was written by two Popes, (Benedict XVI and Francis), it is interesting to try to determine who wrote particular themes on the topic of Mary’s faith. The first chapter presents Mary, the Daughter of Zion, who fulfilled the faith of Israel, and also initiated the faith of the Church. The second chapter characterizes the relation of Mary to the Word of God, which she listened to, kept in her heart and unconditionally accepted in order to live in total harmony with God. The third chapter concerns Mary’s journey of faith at Jesus’s side, which was marked with the joy of the nnunciation, as well as with the Cross, finally reaching its destination in the light of his resurrection. The last chapter focuses on the reference of Mary’s faith to the faith of the Church. In Mary’s school, we learn to trust God and his word, to focus on Jesus, to contemplate him, to follow him, to perceive with his eyes, to cherish his feelings, and to adopt his attitudes. Only such faith brings fruits and joy. The encyclical teaching on Mary’s faith, as read in the context of other statements from both Popes, enables us to establish the following: 1. From Benedict XVI comes the Lumen fidei teaching on Mary, the Daughter of Zion, a woman who accepts and lives by the Word of God; the emphasis on Mary as a model of faith; and the motto “those who believe are never alone”. 2. Francis can be credited with the themes concerning the impact of Mary’s faith on our lives, both personal and social; learning from her how to see with the eyes of Jesus; and entrusting ourselves to his love. He calls her the Mother of our faith to emphasize her maternal care over the faith of the Church.

O nauku znaka

Author(s): Rusmir Mahmutćehajić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 06/1996

Bošnjaci smatraju šišmiša blagoslovenom životinjom. Imam 'Ali, najvoljeniji sljedbenik Poslanika Muhammeda. govori o šišmišu. Ako se promatraju samo vanjskosti tih dviju pojava, tada one mogu izgledati udaljene i neovisne. Ali svako njihovo ogledanje u odnosu na granicu između vanjskog i unutarnjeg ukazuje na začudnu povezanost. Prikaz i pretraga tih dviju pojava u okviru svetog nauka o znaku omogućuju uvide koji manjkaju novovjekoj otuđenosti od svetog predanja.

Søren Kierkegaard i islam

Author(s): Safet Bektović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 02/1997

Problemska pitanja koja je Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) razmatrao na religioznom planu, imaju univerzalan karakter. Ona su relevantna kako za religioznost uopće, tako i za svaki pojedinačno- -konkretni angažman u vjerskom pogledu. To su pitanja koja se tiču religije kao sfere ljudskog života i predmeta različitih proučavanja, ali i ličnih, egzistencijalnih problema čovjeka pojedinca koji na bilo koji način, kao pripadnik neke religije ili ne, pokušava pronaći put ka Bogu.

O putevima spoznaje

Author(s): Whitall Nicholson Perry,Gray Henry / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 03/1997

Interview with Whitall N. Perry by Gray Henry

GOD OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

Author(s): Małgorzata Gwarny / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2013

Biblijny świat zwierząt

Author(s): Anna Maria Wajda / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2013

Numerous references to animals in the Bible show that biblical authors had a broad knowledge of nature. According to the current classification of living organisms and method of research used by modern zoology, it is stated that these observations do not have the characteristics of scientific research. In spite of this, they are the evidence of the clear-sighted observation of animals, which is reflected not only in the knowledge of the appearance of individual species, but also of specific behaviours related to their way of life. It concerns not only domestic animals, raised for the purpose of gaining meat, fur, hide and labour, but also wild representatives of the fauna. Bible references concerning the latter apply to the species perceived as highly dangerous to man and domestic animals, i.e.: lions, wolves, bears, leopards or snakes. Amongst the Bible animals one can distinguish these which aroused admiration because of their appearance, such as gazelle, deer, ibex or dove. At the same time, it is essential to emphasise the fact that this rich animal world is just a vivid background of the biblical story of Salvation and a tool used to translate God’s address into human language. For this reason, the knowledge of animal symbolism in the Sacred Scripture makes more accurate understanding of the pericopes possible.

Ekonomia zbawienia według 2 Tm 1, 9–10

Author(s): Janusz Wilk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

The article on The Economy of Salvation According to 2 Tm 1, 9–10 is the analysis of the hymnic – liturgical couplet that touches on three thematic aspects concerning salvation: the redemption of man made by God (v. 9a); perennial decision of Jesus Christ to redeem man (v. 9b) and the consequences of redemption – new, lasting life (v. 10). 2 Tm 1 : 9–10 describes salvation as God’s grace for man, who would not have been able to initiate or fulfil this act in any other way. However, man had and still has the opportunity to decide whether he wants to accept or reject its consequences. The study of 2 Tm 1 : 9–10 also points out the semantic and thematic integrity of this couplet with the whole pericope of 2 Tm 1 : 6–14. It does not disturb the main thought of the pericope (faithfulness and perseverance in the ministry of the gospel) and serves as its full explanation, showing the Gospel for which it is worth to accept suffering, martyrdom or the daily, systematic and hard work connected with proclaiming the Good News of salvation of man made by Jesus Christ.

Niegodziwa mamona – postawa wobec bogactwa według Nowego Testamentu

Author(s): Stanisław Wronka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2010

The „mammon” means wealth, money, all the material riches and is always defined by Jesus negatively as „unrighteous”. So the expression „unrighteous mammon” seems to condemn and reject the wealth as totally contrary to God and to His kingdom. In reality this expression, as well as all the hyperbolical statements and sharp antitheses of the New Testament in this matter pay only attention to the danger of wealth, which can easily subdue the man, make him a slave, so that he isn’t able to use it wisely for his true good, to share it with the others and to set final hopes in God. For the material riches are gift of God, which one doesn’t need to fear, but should accept with gratitude, wisely increase, use for a worthy life in relation with the people and in unity with God, that is a supreme good of man and his ultimate fulfillment.