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The Holy Trinity and the Human Person

Јован Д. Зизијулас — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The author examines the relationship between Christian Trinitarian theology and anthropology. The essence of the anthropology which results from the Trinitarian theology of the Cappadocian Fathers lies in the significance of personhood in human existence. There is no fuller anthropology than this anthropology of true and full personhood, where the concept of the person is an ontological concept in the ultimate sense.

Symbolic Aspects of the Gnoseology of the Cosmological Events

Предраг Петровић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Unifying the effect of divine providence is manifested in the individual symbolic aspects of the structure of existence set by God. No created existence is a goal to itself. No event is within the dynamics of the created existence is meaningless, nor is it self‑sufficient. Community with God is the only true objective of historical events within the universal divine history of salvation. Creation more often than not announces dramatic events, which is why the issue of understanding the effects of divine providence creation remains open in such events. Researchers of dramatic historical events have listed a multitude of indicators by setting a requirement to define the causes of such events. Biblical texts provide proof of unusual movements of creation, as well as of the final origin of the dramatic historical events. The Lord does not interrupt the effects of the history of his salvation even in the case of dramatic historical circumstances. Instead, by announcing those very events through which the Church has to go within the world after the fall, our Lord leads the chosen ones towards the promised resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come.

Primacy within the Church. Ecclesiological Presumptions and Church Practice in the First Millennium (Orthodox Aspect)

Игнатије Мидић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

For the right understanding of primacy within the Church and of Church practice in relation to primacy before the Great Schism of 1054, it is necessary, to consider two problems: perception of the Church, and perception of Apostolic Succession‑Tradition in Church history of the first millennium. The Synod deals with matters which insure Eucharistic unity in the form of Apostolic Tradition. However, Apostolic Tradition in all its aspects: in consecration of bishops, in teaching, and in its missionary activity, is always connected with the Eucharist with which it is being identified.

The Initial Phases of the Development of J.‑M. R. Tillard’s Theological Thought

Златко Матић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Rome‑catholic theologian J.‑M. R. Tillard o.p. (1927–2000) was one of the most important ecumenists of the second half of the 20th century. The author offers some key indicators regarding Tillard’s theological topics: Eucharistic theology, the renewal of religious life and communion ecclesiology. Tillard’s ecumenical involvement (after Second Vatican council) has a deep consequence on his forty‑year rich theological work. But, Tillard’s interest in the sacraments and the religious life has a particularly ecclesiological importance, with his focus — the notion of koinonia.

Celestial Symbols of the Old Testament in Divine Oikonomia of Salvation

Предраг Петровић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

With its visible and invisible dimensions of existence, the heavenly world manifests impalpability, but also the creaturely mode of existence, which opens a perception of multidimensionality of the divine act of creation to a man, different from the superficial, purely sensual perception, which a man prefers to use. Although noticed movements in the heavenly dimensions of the symbolic mode of existence testify about certain habitual movements of the heavenly lights, they also manifest their sense of event. The Old Testament projection of the celestial bodies opens precisely such a sense of event of the heavenly mode of existence which has no fatal, but libertarian features derived from the visible manifestation of the will of God the Creator, Almighty and Savior of the world.

Chieti Document (2016) — Synodality and Primacy During the First Millennium

Златко Матић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The author pays attention on the sixth document of the Joint Commission for theological dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. During the fourteenth plenary meeting (Chieti, Italia, September 16 to 21 2016), Commission published a document Synodality and Primacy during the first millennium: towards a common understanding in service to the unity of the Church, which contains some important practical and ecclesiological points of the present ecumenical search for full communion. The supplement brings the document translate in the Serbian language.

The Liturgical Books the Metropolitante of Karlovci in XIX Century

Петар Николић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The paper presents a short overview of the liturgical books that were used in the Metropolitante of Karlovci in the nineteenth century. It is known that the first liturgical books were brought from Russia and Ukraine, which are translated by us or reprinted. We have found significant resources to research the liturgical books, chronologically displaying part of print publications in the area Metropolitante of Karlovac and beyond. As a special segment the problems of their reprints are solved, and the reasons were both religious and political.

Paradoxes of Rationalistic Ethics Versus Apparent Paradoxes of Irrational‑Religious Ethics in Kierkegaard’s Philosophy

Валентина Чизмар — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The author in this paper considers Kierkegaard’s ethics, derived from irrational aspects of faith, arguing that irrational‑religious orientation can provide legitimacy to ethics as a science, while at the same time overturn the paradox which is attributed to such ethics. In this endeavor, author points to the weakness of rational ethics and clarifies the keys of paradoxes and problems of ethics, which particularly visible in the negation of individual existence and inability of ethics to carry out genuine moral rebirth of man. Disadvantages of the rational ethics are particularly visible in the modern world without spirit, but also in objective, rational approach which creating the moral formalism and does not know how to support individuals in its key existential situations, how as for example Kierkegaard proves in the Abraham’s and Job’s life stories.

Truly ethics should be taken care about the individual (not common man), and its basis is need to be spiritual love, which is based primarily on the love relationship of man to God, continued toward all people without exception. Kierkegaard’s ethics of love is one step in overcoming the ethical formalism and rationalism, but and nihilism as an aspect of alienation of man from God, other people and man’s self.

Saint Raphael of Banat in the Context of Historical and Ethnological Sources

Дејан Воргић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

This research primarily aims to shed light on the historical circumstances of life and death St. Raphael of Banat. In a special segment of this work, the emphasis will be on the existence of a monastery with a dedication Presentation of the Virgin at the end of the seventeenth century in Becskerek where short‑term stayed and died monk Rafailo. At the beginning of XVIII century there is the development of the cult dedicated to this a monk, and this research will investigate all segments of its manifestation, to church Parliament’s official canonization in 1965.

Golden — Heaven’s Doors in Christian Temples

Живојин Андрејић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

The door of a temple marks the border between the secular and profane. The front doors to the Christian temples are sacred pilgrimage passes leading to the shrines of sanctuaries, to the places of the true presence of the deity. Consequently, a temple itself is a sort of a door. ’The Holy Door’ reminds of a passage from sin to grace and of reaching the Paradise on the Doomsday. Thus, a Holy Door is a Heavenly Door at the same time. It is the entrance to the heavenly Jerusalem, the Golden Gate. Conversely, a truly golden — gilded door into a Christian church converts a temple into Paradise. The most significant contemporary role models for making the golden door in Resava monastery can be found in Istanbul, Venice and Florence.

The authentic looks of the door entrance to the nave of the church of St. Trinity in Resava is shown on the model of the temple held by despot Stefan in his founder’s ensemble. The door is painted the golden color like the despot’s pieces of clothing, also of gold — gold embroidery. This is a solid proof that, whether they were wooden or bronze, the door to the church in Resava used to be plated — Golden Gate. Having analyzed the looks of other great foundations built by Serbian royalty, we have concluded that the “Golden Gates” were also present in the churches in monasteries such as Ravanica, Lesnovo, Treskavac, Matejca, Psaca, Gracanica, Hilandar, Mileseva, Zica and Studenica.

Aura vitalis und die technische Reproduktion das Ikon

Александар Дуроњић — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Der Text erscheint als Versuch um einen breiten theologischen Aspekt des Ikons zu erfassen, der sich vom Künstler bis zum Betrachter bewegt, von der historischen auf die eschatologische Realität,was Slavoslovie zur Welt bringt und die Nähe der Begegnung mit dem Gott. In erster Linie verfolgt man die Hauptbedeutung des Ikons, um auf die Aura vitalis (Lebenskraft) hinzuweisen, und damit auch auf eine vollkommend neue Wirklichkeit , in der es sich selbst nun befand. Da der Kontakt mit dem Ikonographen verloren geht, durch die Macht der technischen Reproduktion, verliert man auch die Beziehung des Bechtrachters und der kirchlichen Gemeinschaft als Ganzes in einer Weise, dass seine Rolle in dem liturgischen und asketischen Leben der Kirche in Frage stellt. Als solches wird das Ikon als "christliche Dekoration" , und verliert die jenige Lebenskraft ,welche den menschlichen Geist auf seinem Weg zum Christus verwandelt.