It is evident from the title and the outline of this dissertation that Christopher Scobie’s work deals with the Apostle Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians and that it focuses on how Catholic and Protestant theologians of Pentecostal provenance have represented and critically assessed the term the “Body of Christ (sóma tou theoú).” This doctoral dissertation, which extends to 528 pages, is suitably structured in accordance with its aim. It is written in English, and at the end there is also an extensive summary in Slovenian. The structure as a whole is mentioned already in the disposition for the dissertation, which runs to 17 pages. The main emphasis is not only on the search for the meaning of the expression the “Body of Christ” on the basis of literary analysis of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, but also on comparing Catholic and Protestant directions in exegesis of the relevant texts, on classifying the findings within Catholic and Pentecostal religious groups, and on theological discourse about the possibility of dialogue between Catholics and Pentecostals about the “Body of Christ” in the First Epistle to the Corinthians in terms of the Lord’s supper or Communion. The particular worth of the thesis lies in the ecumenical theological discourse with the purpose of promoting ecumenical dialogue between two Christian denominations. The theme of the dissertation concerns wider applications of the research on ecumenical issues to theological discourse and to the community at large. This study delineates the current critical perspective and justifies expectation that the research advances the scholarship through research objective of the dissertation. This opens the pathway for future scholars and extends the opportunity to enter into the academic conversation.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 7071322The dissertation presents somel aspects of comprehending dimensions of reality and truth, as presented by literature. It is on the doctoral dissertation entitled Reality and Truth in Literature, in Selected Biblical Texts and Their Literary Interpretation (487 pages). Along common findings of literary kritics, philosophers and theologians bout fundamental characteristics of representing reality and truth in literature a comparison between biblical and non-biblical texts shows that numerous biblical texts excel in broadening of and deepening comprehending of the world and life on spiritual realities. Comprehension of reality and truth in the world of human spirituality are the specific domains of biblical literary representations. Literature shows life in all dimensions and reveals how the moral life is, could be, or should be lived. Biblical literature conveys historical truth of the relation between the Creator and the chosen people. With refe-rence to God, truth and designates a quality of his nature or will, in reference to humans, truth is to live as disciples of God who is truth. Human truthfulness is to be faithful to God and man. Contemporary biblical criticism helps make possible fuller readings of the text, with a particular emphasis on the complex integration of diverse means of communication encountered in most works of literature and shows possible ways toward a reunion of the secular with the religious critical tradition.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 38637613The Slovenian Jerusalem edition of the Bible is a new annotated translation of the Bible. Of special importance for the translators was the endeavour for congruity between the original and the translation in regard of style, the strucutre of literary forms and the tradtion in vocabulary. The wisdom and prophetic literature is predominantly composed in poetic form, therefore the main attention was paid to semantics and to basic forms of Hebrew poetry in order to preserve the wide meaning of the basic vocabulary and the elevated poetic-rhetoric language. The Bible is the best possible source of religious and cultural life, because it is the purest fruit of an inner divine-human inspiration, a total synthesis of universal experiences and of natural system of symbols. The word, the symbol, the story and the high poetry complement each other under the preassure ov inner life. The possibility of translating our inner life within the creative inheritance of our languages demonstrate that the human spirit is unviersal. The more portions or the entire Bible are used in liturgy and in education, the more dynamic, all embracing and pozitive is human development.
C.07 Other editorial board
COBISS.SI-ID: 265749760The Slovenian Jerusalem edition of the Bible is a new annotated translation of the Bible. Of special importance for the translators was the endeavour for congruity between the original and the translation in regard of style, the strucutre of literary forms and the tradtion in vocabulary. The Pentateuch is predominantly composed with rhetorically elaborated prose texts, therefore a special attention is dedicated to semantics and to basic forms of Hebrew poetics and rhetoric in order to preserve the openess of meaning of the fundamental vocabulary and of elevated poetic-rhetorical language. The Bible is the best possible source of religious and cultural life, because it is the purest fruit of an inner divine-human inspiration, a total synthesis of universal experiences and of natural system of symbols. The word, the symbol, the story and the elevated style of biblical texts complement each other under the inspiration of inner force of life. The possibility of translating our inner life within the creative inheritance of our languages demonstrate that the human spirit is unviversal. The more portions or the entire Bible are used in personal reading, education and liturgy, the more dynamic, all embracing and pozitive is human development.
C.07 Other editorial board
COBISS.SI-ID: 272328448Numerous literary representations of temptation, seduction and abduction of women in world literature from antiquity to the present time are expressed in the form of dialogue conducted according to the logic of ruse and violence. The subject of seduction and violence are men of various classes and roles. In the Slovenian folk tradition and we can disclose some literary representations of type of a deceiver and of a woman as victim of abductor. Representations of this kind are common to to folklore tradition and artisic literatuer throughout the world. Since the motif of Fair Vida comes from the common Mediterranean tradition, Slovenian and Mediterranean variants manifest intertextual interactions both in the motifs and symbols of seduction and violence. Abductor appears both in Slovenian and Mediterranean folk variants also as a symbol of evel and remains unpunished. While Prešeren focuses in his ballad Of Fair Vida (1832) predominantly on the figure of the Fair Vida as the victim of the tempter, Jurčič, Vošnjak and Kranjc place in their literary recreations of the motif of the Fair Vida greater emphasis on the figure of the tempter. While in Jurčič's novel the decieved Vida's husband avneges himsel on the tempter, in Vošnjak and Kranjc he is punished for his deception by the abused women.
D.11 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 38346797