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Copilăria evlavioasă — rolul preșcolarității în formarea adultului credincios

Author(s): Mihaela Brânză / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-4 Suppl./2023

A pious childhood is a gift from God. The Christian parents are called to offer their children an authentic religious education. Their behaviour is copied by the little ones and replicated. Their educational failures and personal faults are closely related. When starting a family, the spouses should analyse their attitude towards having off springs and the way they want to educate them. The contemporary society compells parents to get informed about the minimum requirements involved in raising children. Babies are marvellous human beings that must be treated with full respect. The preschool child is a wonder. In early childhood the brain assimilates a large quantity of information. Parents should be prepared the become a reliable Christian guide for the child in this world. Their constant endeavours to become good parents are necessary. Prayer is their main tool to form wise children that consider God’s commandments.

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Povestea ca metodă de formare a caracterului moral-religios al elevilor

Author(s): Camelia-Maria Angheluș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-4 Suppl./2023

Through this article, we will try to emphasize the role of stories in the formation of the moral-religious character of students in Religion class. Our Lord Jesus Christ was called in the Holy Scripture the Teacher. Thus, starting from known things and ordinary situations, the Saviour presented new meanings for each of those who listened to Him. By reading religious stories, the teacher can propose new highlights. Thus, the listeners, whether they are children or young people, can relate to their own daily experiences through the prism of the Christian perspective discovered in the studied texts.

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Valențele spirituale ale Căsătoriei. Actualitatea și efectele ei în viața conjugală a soților și a lumii

Author(s): Gheorghiță-Mădălin Ceobanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-4 Suppl./2023

In our study we want to present and describe the spiritual values that arise from the Marriage Mystery and its effects in the family environment and in the world. The study aims to bring before the reader some arguments regarding the institution of Marriage, its necessity, actuality and benefits.

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Gençlerde Kimlik Algısı ve Dinî Hayat: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi

Author(s): Behlül Tokur,Hümeyra Ahsen Doğan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 50/2023

Identity is the answer to the questions an individual asks themself about who they are. The basic characteristic of identity consturction is that this answer has a structure that includes continuity, integrity, and consistency. Acquiring identity is one of the essential psychological needs. As the person who introduced this term to psychology, Erik Ericson has formed the basis for many identity theories. The search for identity, which makes itself felt seriously during adolescence, forms the basis for a balanced and sustainable sense of identity in adulthood. The sense of identity allows the individual to define themselves in personal reality. By creating a subjective and natural perception of identity, the individual has a solid knowledge of the purpose of life. In addition to individual identity, the individual has an orientation toward internalizing the national, political, religious, and economic value judgments of the society in which they live. This orientation leads to acquired identities. The conditions formed by acquired identities create a set of molds and categories. Identity is one of the important subjects studied in psychology, sociology, and social psychology. Although there are many studies on identity construction for individuals and groups on social scientific grounds, there are few studies on the role of religion in identity perception. This study, aim to address the relationship between identity perception and religious life in young people. In this context, the construction of identity as a personal reality developed young people developed for themselves, the effects of religious identity on young people’s lives and the extend to which the perception of identity is influenced by religion are examined in a approach. In this study, which was carried out by following the qualitative research method, data were collected from 10 female and 10 male students studying at the undergraduate level at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Islamic Sciences by interview technique. Since 2 participants stated that they wanted to withdraw from the interview during the interview, the responses given by 18 participants were evaluated. The answers given by the participants were analyzed by content analysis and the findings were interpreted scientifically. When the participant’s individual and situational identity perceptions are analyzed, the first element that stands out is that young people had no awareness of themselves before. Only four participants define themselves through national and spiritual identity, while one defines himself/herself through a religious group. Despite all these negativities, religion is seen only as a means of relaxation and safety.

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Yalnızlık Hissi ve Duygusal Zekâ İlişkisi: İlahiyat Fakültesi Öğrencileri Üzerinde Bir İnceleme

Author(s): Sema Yılmaz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 50/2023

Loneliness can be defined as the subjective feeling of being alone or disconnected from others; emotional intelligence (EI) can be defined as the capacity to be aware of one’s emotions, to control and express them, and to handle interpersonal relationships in a prudent and empathetic manner. This study aims to theoretically and empirically examine the relationship between loneliness and emotional intelligence on theology faculty students. In addition to the risk factors carried by their peers, it is assumed that the research group is disadvantaged in adaptation and loneliness in terms of socio-economic conditions, religious education and professional responsibilities. Fort his purpose, the research was conducted on the group studying at Sivas Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Theology and Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Faculty of Islamic Sciences. 326 participants voluntarily participated in the study. The average age of the participants between the ages of 18-30 was 21. The data of the research carried out in September-October of the 2021-2022 academic year were collected with Personal Information Form, UCLA Loneliness Scale and Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale. The data collected by the questionnaire technique were transferred to the SPSS 23.0 statistical program and Pearson Moment Multiplication Correlation Analysis, Independent Sample t-Test, One-Way ANOVA and Tukey HSD tests were applied. According to the main finding of the study, there is a negative way, medium level (r = -.472) statistically significant relationship (p ˂ 0.01) between the loneliness averages and emotional intelligence averages (EI) of the theology faculty students. The relationship between loneliness and emotional intelligence also shows significant differences according to socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, academic achievement, faculty, familial factors. The findings were discussed in the light of the literature. According to the results of the research, emotional intelligence can be considered as a preventive and improvable factor against loneliness and potential negative consequences for theology faculty students.

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W OBRONIE ARGUMENTU Z WCIELENIA. ODPOWIEDŹ STANISŁAWOWI RUCZAJOWI

Author(s): Marek Dobrzeniecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The paper is a response to the polemic of Stanisław Ruczaj with the argument from the Incarnation, which was presented in the book Ukrytość i Wcielenie. Teistyczna odpowiedź na argument Johna L. Schellenberga za nieistnieniem Boga [Hiddenness and the Incarnation: A Theistic Response to John L. Schellenberg’s Argument for Divine Nonexistence]. Ruczaj accuses the so-called incarnational defense that it does not consider the possibility that God is both incarnate and not hidden. In my response, I am focusing on the reasons why I believe it is possible that the option described by Ruczaj is excluded for God. In my opinion, there are reasons to think that it is (a) logically contradictory, (b) inconsistent with God’s perfect moral character, (c) it would not result in the elimination of nonresistant nonbelief in the Incarnation.

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CZY WSPÓŁCZESNE ROZUMIENIE PROBLEMU BOŻEJ UKRYTOŚCI PROWADZI DO ATEIZMU?

Author(s): Ryszard Mordarski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

The article discusses two excellent works on the hiddenness of God by Miłosz Hołda (Źródło i noc. Wprowadzenie do współczesnego absconditeizmu [The Spring and the Night: An Introduction into Contemporary Absconditheism]) and Marek Dobrzeniecki (Ukrytość i Wcielenie. Teistyczna odpowiedź na argument Johna L. Schellenberga za nieistnieniem Boga [Hiddenness and the Incarnation: A Theistic Response to John L. Schellenberg’s Argument for Divine Nonexistence]). They belong to the so-called friendly theists, who try to treat the thesis of God’s hiddenness as an important extension of the problems of classical theism. It seems, however, that they succumb to the illusion of conducting a dialogue with the so-called friendly atheists, who involve theists in such an interpretation of the thesis about the Divine hiddenness, which seems to be completely contrary to classical theism. The question then arises: whether the contemporary formulations of the problem of the Divine hiddenness are in any way compatible with Christian theism?

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WIARA, WĄTPLIWOŚCI I TAJEMNICA WCIELENIA UWAGI NA MARGINESIE KSIĄŻKI MARKA DOBRZENIECKIEGO UKRYTOŚĆ I WCIELENIE. TEISTYCZNA ODPOWIEDŹ NA ARGUMENT JOHNA L. SCHELLENBERGA ZA NIEISTNIENIEM BOGA

Author(s): Marek Pepliński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

This paper concerns an important and exciting book by Marek Dobrzeniecki Ukrytość i Wcielenie. Teistyczna odpowiedź na argument Johna L. Schellenberga za nieistnieniem Boga [Hiddenness and the Incarnation: A Theistic Response to John L. Schellenberg’s Argument for Divine Nonexistence]. After a brief discussion of the content of the book’s chapters, critical remarks are presented. They concern the adopted method and approach to Schellenberg’s philosophy in general and the argument from hiddenness in particular. The conceptual framework serving as a typologization of the propositional dimension of the phenomenon of theistic belief/faith is dubious and requires in-depth research. It is worth considering the possibility of asymmetry of the attitudes of belief/faith and unbelief, which requires consideration in the reasoning whose legitimacy would assume the transfer of features from one to the other and the negation functor. Regarding the voluntarism of belief in God, the paper suggests that extreme, purely intellectual, and purely volitional positions should be considered, as well as moderate and mixed ones. It is argued extensively that Dobrzeniecki’s criticism against the arguments of Rea and Mourad is not conclusive. Just the possibility of voluntariness of disbelief undermines the validity of Schellenberg’s argument and should therefore be ruled out as much as possible. The paper suggests supplementing Dobrzeniecki’s approach with a ‘trans-paradigmatic’ approach consisting of external criticism, which, in the light of Schellenberg’s arguments being probably incompatible with the described phenomenon of religious belief in God, leads to a modification of the theoretical apparatus of Schellenberg’s paradigm. Such a modification deprives the latter’s argument of justification.

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WIECZNE PROBLEMY (NIE)DZIAŁANIA BOGA W ŚWIECIE ORAZ GODZENIA „BOGA FILOZOFII” Z „BOGIEM OBJAWIENIA” REFLEKSJE NA KANWIE KSIĄŻKI MIŁOSZA HOŁDY ŹRÓDŁO I NOC. WPROWADZENIE DO WSPÓŁCZESNEGO ABSCONDITEIZMU

Author(s): Marek Słomka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

In the book Źródło i noc. Wprowadzenie do współczesnego absconditeizmu [The Spring and the Night: An Introduction into Contemporary Absconditheism] (Kraków: Wydwnictwo WAM, 2020), Miłosz Hołda thoroughly presents the discussed issues and proposes interesting solutions. When being an ambitious attempt to elaborate an original position in an vital area of Christian thought, the publication calls for critical reflection and highlighting main problems, which is the purpose of this text. It is especially about two questions of key importance for theism: God’s (in)activity in the world and how to reconcile the “God of philosophy” with the “God of revelation.” In the first one, the basic problem consists not only in the (partially) incorrect approach to the scientific picture of the world, but also to the philosophy of science and theology of science. In the second area, the main shortcoming of Hołda’s analyzes is the discrepancy between the manifested support for classical theism and the lack of a critical look at its elements that make it difficult, and in some aspects impossible, to express the essential content of the Judeo-Christian revelation. The remarks contained in the article do not completely refute the principal theses put forward by Hołda, but lead to their modification, and emphasize the value of a scientific worldview.

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Dijital Oyunların Çocukların Dinî-Ahlaki Gelişimine Olumsuz Etkileri Üzerine Nitel Bir Araştırma: Judgement Day: Tanrı’nın Meleği Örneği

Author(s): Hatice Kilinçer / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 4/2023

Play is a means for children to explore life and is one of their fundamental needs. In today's digital world, children, the new inhabitants of the digital realm, also have digital games as their playmates. While numerous studies have been conducted on the harmful effects of digital games on children's development, there is limited research on their impact on religious and moral development. This study aims to identify the potential adverse effects and risks that the simulation game "Judgement Day: Angel of God" may have on children's moral and religious development, and their fundamental developmental areas. The reason for selecting "Judgement Day: Angel of God," which has a high download rate in Turkey, is its popularity among children aged 7-12 due to its game structure, design, user interface, and ease of play. This study, used qualitative research methods, specifically document analysis, and the data obtained were analyzed using the content analysis method. In this context, the game was played up to advanced levels, and the content and themes that could negatively affect children's moral and religious development, and other areas of development, were analyzed. The findings are presented under three headings: Elements That Could Negatively Affect Religious Development, Elements That Could Negatively Affect Moral-Values Development and Elements That Could Negatively Affect Other Fundamental Areas of Development. It was determined that the symbols, cues, instructions, spatial features, and content in the game contained elements and risks that could negatively affect religious and moral development, and other areas of development (social-emotional development, sexual development, self-care skills).

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The value of work in the spiritual life of a woman according to Jadwiga Zamoyska and Maria Karłowska

Author(s): Stanisław Suwiński / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The awareness that through work a woman participates in the work of creation is the deepest impulse to take up work in various sectors. Today we know that the role of work in wo- men’s lives is huge and determines their place in society. Work is also a woman’s continuous per- sonal development. Thanks to it, she acquires new skills, improves her competences and learns new things. Culture also plays an important role in the perception of work. Hence the need to promote the humanization of work, which was fought for at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, thus contributing to the development of humanity. The development taking place through work allows a woman to achieve a moral personality, which is a multiplication of her natural abilities for moral evaluation of a human being. The article indicates the need to combine work with the spiritual life of a woman, so that work leads her not only to improve things (products of work), but also to im- prove her internally as a person, therefore the moral and spiritual dimension of human work should be constantly restored (work as a spiritual and moral value). This current issue has been shown on the basis of the educational works of two women from Greater Poland — Jadwiga Zamoyska and Maria Karłowska — who lived at the turn of the last two centuries.

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Patrystyczna interpretacja zakazu gniewu w Mt 5, 22a

Author(s): Leon Nieścior / Language(s): Polish Issue: 87/2023

The radical condemnation of anger in Matthew 5:22 raises some fundamen-tal questions: Does this first antithesis of the Sermon on the Mount actually interpret or change the Old Law? How is this radical prohibition of anger fulfilled? Is anger really put on the same level as murder? Is all anger banned? Collecting the answers to these fundamental questions of Greek and Latin early Christian writers, the author of the article reconstructs a patristic propaedeutic for a detailed interpretation of Matthew 5:22, and pays special attention to the contribution of St. Augustine in this field.

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Ildefonsa z Toledo modlitwy do Matki Bożej. Analiza treści modlitw

Author(s): Paweł Wygralak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 87/2023

The paper presents an analysis of two prayers by Ildefonso of Toledo addressed to Mary contained in the work “De virginitate Sanctae Mariae”. Both the very personal form of the prayers and their content deserve attention. In these prayers, the Bishop of Toledo expresses his deepest feelings towards Mary, describing her as his Lady and Sovereign. He praises her for her participation in the work of salvation, but above all he asks her interces-sion so that he can be united with Christ. In doing so, he indicates what true Marian devotion consists of: it should always lead to a deepening of the relationship with Christ.

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John the Baptist and Fasting

Author(s): Gianluca Olcese / Language(s): English Issue: 86/2023

The Gospels passages describe John the Baptist’s ascetic behaviour in the Judean desert, eating locusts and wild honey, wearing garments made of camel hair. The food choices of St. John are analysed in comparison with the practice of nazirite, and also on the light of Eastern tradition, mostly spread in Syriac Christianity, which interpretation differs, underlining a particular form of ascetism completely characterised by vegetables. Commentaries, mostly dating back to the 4th and 5th centuries, explain the word ‘akrides’ as a particular vegetable. Furthermore, the celebration of St. John’s Eve, as a result of medieval western development, is nowadays characterized by abundance of food, in contrast, with the Gospel description of the life of the Baptist, are compared with the tradition of charivari, known since the Middle Ages.

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STRES I STRAH U USLOVIMA SAVREMENE PANDEMIJE

Author(s): Mirko Vladisavljević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 36/2021

Fears and stress are a knot of our thoughts that needs to be untied. When we succeed in that, stress and fear becomes the driving force of life motivated by countless phenomena of life, numerous possibilities of the new life goals within the limits of heavenly love. The perfect love of Christ "casts out fear" and allows us freedom from all addictions. Addictions are mastered by being through fear, by abolishing freedom of thought and freedom of existence, by subordinating the individual to a group ruled by the force of fear, aggression, and hierarchy subordination to the stronger. Aggression is constantly active because it constantly proves that it is right, by looking for the culprit in order to achieve some personal domination. By fully knowing Christ, eternal truths and the infinite power of heavenly love, we become part of a group of free people from fear and free from verbal, nonverbal, paraverbal and physical aggression. It is Christ one who is the driving and creative force of love of the innumerable phenomena of life in and around us. With him we can successfully "reset" our thoughts and achieve the much-needed relaxation in time modern pandemics

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UNCERTAINTY AND DEATH – INEVITABILITY, UNIVERSALITY AND IRREVERSIBILITY OF DEATH –

Author(s): Aleksandar S. Santrač / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2021

The main purpose of this article is to present the uncertainty of death as a possible bridge between secular and Christian understanding of death reality. The article describes death in all its philosophical aspects juxtaposing it to the Christian brief synopsis at the end.

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BUDDHISM AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Author(s): Nemanja D. Milinović / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2021

This annotated bibliography aims to point out the important sources for understanding the relationship between Buddhist teaching and modern psychotherapeutic practice. The primary interest of the paper concerns the relationship between Buddhist psychology and modern Western psychotherapy, while the secondary focus is on re-examining the relationship between (Zen) Buddhism and Gestalt Therapy. The annotated bibliography contains twenty-six titles: thirteen books, three collections and ten papers. Fourteen titles in total contribute to the topic of the relationship between (Zen) Buddhism and Gestalt. The bibliography highlights examples of successful integration of knowledge from the corpus of Buddhist psychology and meditative techniques within Western-type psychotherapeutic practice.

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Духовна природа слова як засобу комунікації та творення у взаємопов’язаності з категорією правди

Author(s): Svitlana Petrenko / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 31/2022

This material is submitted for discussion on the pages of the journal. It has the status of a working version, a draft of a possible article, a preprint. Anyone can participate in the discussion by submitting their materials with a link to this material in the "Discussions" section of the following issues. The author of the same material, in the case of writing a scientific article, must make a reference to his material, which he submitted for discussion.The draft article is devoted to the conceptual and discursive analysis of the nature and properties of the word as a form of existence and communication of truth, revealing its communicative properties and interconnectedness with the category of truth in historiographical and biblical discourses. The spiritual nature of the Word, based on Truth, is aimed at creation, spiritual development and harmonization of society and the individual. Awareness of the creative and constructive nature of the Word and the ability to operate with the word at the level of its spiritual nature is an essential competence of a professional in social communications and socially responsible journalism.

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Відгук на матеріал Світлани Панченко „Від паломництва до релігійного туризму: історія і сучасність“

Author(s): Alla Boyko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 32/2022

This review is submitted as a contribution to the discussion on the pages of the journal of Svitlana Panchenko's material "From Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: History and Modernity". Feedback has the status of a working version, a draft of a possible article, a preprint. Anyone can participate in the discussion by submitting their materials to the "Discussions and Discussions" section with a reference to the material being discussed. The author of the same material, in the case of writing a scientific article, must necessarily make a call for his feedback.

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Відгук на матеріал Світлани Панченко "Від паломництва до релігійного туризму: історія і сучасність"

Author(s): Liudmyla Fylypovych / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 32/2022

This review is submitted as a contribution to the discussion on the pages of the journal of Svitlana Panchenko's material "From Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: History and Modernity". Feedback has the status of a working version, a draft of a possible article, a preprint. Anyone can participate in the discussion by submitting their materials to the "Discussions and Discussions" section with a reference to the material being discussed. The author of the same material, in the case of writing a scientific article, must necessarily make a call for his feedback.

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