Paul's speech in Athens, as accounted by Luke in Acts 17:16-34, provides an insight into the fundamental aspects of communication between the Gospel Announcement and human culture. His missionary strategy is greatly influenced by the place (topos) where Paul chooses to announce. The concept of Paul's kerygma in the synagogue is christological-soteriological, whereas his announcement at the marketplace and the Areopagus is a cosmological-eshatological model. In Athens Paul finds himself for the first time in a culture that is open to ideas; the method he uses there is therefore not doctrinal-catechetic but dialogic-narrative. He successfully combines both the Jewosh and Hellenistic traditions of thought as well as considers the ideological and formal principles of the rhetoric of the time. The speech is a carefully thought-out model of inculturation of the Christian kerygma in the Early Church and thus also presents a challenge to the current interfaith as well as intercultural dialogue.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 9801987The aim of the article is to present the divine personal name YHWH in its origin form and in translations as it appears alone or in comibnation with other divine designations. A survey of Bible translations throughtout the centuries reveals that translators have always been in search of the best solutions for rendering the tetragrammaton YHWH. On the one hand, they were bound to the Jewish tradition of extraordinary reverence for this divine name, and on the other hand they were obliged to overcome a limited range of possibilities when YHWH appears in construct expressions of divine names and appellaties. the Hebrew Bible contains a number of construct expressions, which are compounds of double proper names or designations of God, sometimes extended with additional appellatives.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 34692397The book contains ten chapters which, in the framework of settled goals of our researching programme, are dealing with the concept of the “word” in the contemporary theology. Two great theologians of our time are in the forefront: Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The author describes the interior unity of theological opus by Joseph Ratzinger. Ratzinger knows that a good theologian needs “courage of questioning” as well as “humility, in order to hear answers which Christian faith offers.” The subject of theology should not be the theologian himself but God. Theologians should listen to “God’s speech” and hand it over. Specific of Balthasar’s theological opus is also “The Word.” Theology results “from the meeting with the Word which always walks before us.” Štrukelj’s book has received a nice welcome in Germany where Peter Seewald – the world recognized writer of conversations with Pope Benedict – has introduced it.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 5706330A general overview of stereotypes of Jews and other ethnic groups in Slovenian folk tradition, culture in general and particularly in literature from Primož Trubar (1508–1586) onwards shows that in the history of Slovenia, being part of common Middle-European cultural area, stereotypes of Jews are commonplace. The aim of the paper is to analyze two poems by the greatest Slovenian poet France Prešeren (1800–1849) – Judovsko dekle (The Jewish Girl), Od železne ceste (From the Iron Road) – and novels and short stories by the greatest Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar (1876–1918). High artistic qualities of their works raise both Prešeren and Cankar above typical features to form effective and often dramatic stock characters for literary effect, thus generating deeper existential and moral meaning in the reader. Given the literary quality of their works, Prešeren and Cankar merit appropriate attention and scrutiny.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 33589805During the last century, the ecumenical movement aiming at putting into effect Jesus' prayer at the Last Supper "that all them may be one" (John 17:21), which is also the substance of the Church, has become a standing endeavour of almost every Church and Christian community. In the Catholic Church it has been since Vatican II that ecumenical thought has acquired the weight of a doctrine and ecumenical activities have become an integral part of any pastoral work. In order that the work for unity may really lead to Church unity, it will be necessary to extend the christocentrical (monistic, exclusivistic) conception of unity to a trinitarian (diverse) understanding of unity. In the same way, it will be necessary to change the juridical concept of the Church and take up the concept of the Church as community, commmunio. Such understanding and action also requires a re-assessment of the role of the Holy Spirit. In the trinitarian perspective, the unity of the Church is a "creatura Patris et Verbi et Spiritus Sancti."
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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