The 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 tradition in vocabulary. The Bible is literature, that kind of writing which attends to beauty and power of expression. In the Bible, words, phrases and sentences cannot be understood in aesthetic terms alone. Rather such patterns belong for the most part to the matter and character of the biblical message itself. Rendering them rightly is one of the central tasks of the translation. Extremely important connections are being made when we attempt within a passage–and sometimes within a larger portion, within a whole book, within a sequence of books–to reproduce a single Hebrew root with a single Slovenian one. The main issue of our new Bible translation is focused on appropriate preservation of biblical style. All verbal communication possesses two dimensions: what is said, and how it is said. The two are inseparable. Style is the means by which the body of writing (grammar, syntax, morphology, etc.) receives the breath of life, by which it is animated. The true inner connection between style and content is a very difficult and delicate art, for the style communicates the emotional environment of the original.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 278234880It 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.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 7071322Ecumenical dialogue, which gained its legitimacy and momentum in the Catholic Church at the 2nd Vatican Council, also enjoyed a revival among Slovenians. Stanko Janežič particularly stands out with his theoretical and professional, practical-pastoral, and religious-spiritual creation and work in the field of ecumenism in the Slovenian territory. His ecumenical work and thought, on the one hand, characterises realism, built on the adoption of realistic non-unity, which is reflected in the rich diversity of Christian Churches, theologies practices, and spiritual attitudes, and on the other hand hi ubending visionary optimism, that it is possible to think, build, and live the Christian aradigm of one (only) Church of Christ as »unity in diversity.« Janežič's visionary optimism is rooted in his optimistic, poetical, towards the beauty of creation-oriented nature and dialogic personality, in belief, that every human, redeemed in the Paschal Mystery, is good; that the wealth of the one and only Church is only in its variety (diversity), and that the origin, source, and the model of the unity of the Churchin the Trinitarian Good as a community of love. Unity is created by love without eliminating diversity.
D.08 Management and development of research activities
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