The article stems from the main findings of an extensive research of the author in the world of the motifs of longing, weakness and temptation as represented in literary texts from the ancient Near East, from later Mediterranean and the broader European realms. The study is based on extended literary analyses of well-known texts that deal with the same, or at least similar, literary themes and schemata. Though these texts span the period from antiquity to the present, and though they were written in various, unrelated languages, they exhibit valid and instructive semantic parallels. Perceiving and comprehending similar expressions of val-ues from different cultures can lead to a richer, more intensive linguistic and literary experi-ence.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34692909
Monograph Parish St. George near Celje is a presentation of one of the oldest Church institutions in Styria. The first Christian communities in this region were established during the last centuries od the Roman Empire. So far two churches and a series of articles that witness to the fact have been discovered by the Slovenian archeologists in the recent years. The parish included a much larger region as it has today up to the 18th century. New parishes were created from it. It has always been an important centre of Church life and other events. It used to be part of the large Patriarchate of Aquileia (up to 1751) and then of the Gorizia Metropolitan. Church leaders had a significant role in the public life of the place. The book comprises descriptions of the parish as such, religious buildings, churches and others, a variety of the Church associations, Church music and a special attention given to the organ, Church bells, life in the parish community and also in the larger social context, and the influential pastors who became part of the Slovenian national history. A larger attention is dedicated to the consequences of the First and of the Second World War on the life of the people, on the educational activities and on the economic development. An essential part of the parish has been its intense involvement in life of the city and larger community.
COBISS.SI-ID: 260172800
The article deals with canon and state laws concerning the patronage relationship between patrons and parishes as well as church offices in the period from 1782 to 1941. First it describes the beginnings and the development of patronages and different types of patronages with regard to the church or secular character or private or public character of the patrons. In the period of state ecclesiasticism, Josephinism, the founding of the Religious fund created a new type of public patrinage that was supervised by the Emperor or his authorities. The patronage of the Religious Fund was not acknowledged by canon law, yet it was tolerated by the Church and, after the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy it caused problems in the relations between the Church and the state of Yugoslavia. In the last decade of the 18th century and in the beginning of the 19th century the Carniolan Religious Fund took on the patronage of the majority of newly founded Josephinian parishes and, after the secularisation of 1803, also of those that had been under the patronage of the diocese of Brixen.
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Reconciliation is the supreme truth and value of personal and social lifewhen God and humans are perceived as persons. Most biblical texts testify the belief that forgiveness and reconciliation are the most sublime and the most saving fruits of divine and human love. The reason for God’s forgiveness and reconciliation is to be found in his transcendent greatness and the universal purpose with his creation. On this ontological and existential foundation are based numerous literary works from ancient and modern times. One of such literary represen-tations is the Shakespeare’s play The Tempest of 1610–1611. The play is based on the story of Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, who was removed by his brother Antonio with the help of King Alonso of Naples. The story of Prospero and of his role within the family bond is in many respects reminiscent of the role of Joseph in the biblical story of Joseph of Egypt (Gen 37–50).
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The central aim of the article is an intertextual comparison of the experienceof intimate love in the central characters Črtomir and Bogomila, as presented in Prešerenʼs Baptism at the Savica (Ljubljana, 1836) and in the dramatisations with the same title by Zorko Simčič (1953, 1965, 1994) and Dominik Smole (1969, 2003, 2009). In his drama Simčič follows Prešeren's pattern and complements the theme of transcendental love of the young couple, who sacrifice themselves for each other, with the Christian themes of guilt, forgiveness, and reconciliation. In Smoleʼs drama, on the other hand, Črtomir and Bogomila are incapable to love; their love is "wild", depersonalized, violent, deprived of pure desire, too weak for self-sacrifice; with their egotism they deny and finally destroy each other.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34848301