The year 2015 is for the Salesian Family of Saint John Bosco (1815–1888) a special jubilee. He is the founder of the Salesians, Sisters of Mary Help of Christians, and Salesian Cooperators. A large variety of different manifestations has been prepared for this occasion: jubilee festivities, scientific meetings, inaugurations of new works, and church celebrations. New original scientific works have been published treating don Bosco's place in the development of the Christian pedagogical sciences in the missions ad gentes in the course of the 19th century, and his contribution to the social activities. The paper focuses on the fundamental aspects about don Bosco published in the Slovenian Church press and analysis how his original place in the Church and among the religious orders was understood.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 7165018The aim of the article is to present the fundamental peculiarity of biblical narrative poetics. All genres of literature are born on the basis of some sort of life story. This story can be personal, but it can also be a story about a nation, mankind, or the universe as a whole. It is through stories that poets and writers show the reality and truth of man's self-conception and his relations to the world, to mankind and to the transcendental. They are guided by the desire to recognize the truth, and often they state directly that they are internally, and also unconditionally, subject to truth. With this insight we zeroe in on the most difficult aspect of reality and truth: the question of ethics. Whenever the test of truth is not a neutral consideration at the conceptual and systematic level, it plays itself out in the conflicting situations of personal and social life thereby becoming a story which is true in all its criteria. The intenseveness of the experiencing of specific life stories, however, provides countless possibilities for literary creation through imitation, searching for an analogy or for a typology and is indelibly linked to the supassing of pre-existing models. To understand the dimensions of the meaning of the concept of truth, it is not enough to analyse the structure of the poem, which in some respects resembles some similarities in non-biblical literature from antiquity to the present. The key to gaining insight into the main emphases lies in the fact that the biblical literary text has its place in the canon of the Bible. It is therefore understandable that within Jewish and Christian communities literary texts of the Bible were interpreted symbolically, often allegorically.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 7010650The 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: 278234880The consequences of the First World War can be summarised into several groups: 1. Religious consequences: decline of religious life among men (boys). Religious apathy and atheism appeared. A partial decline in spiritual and monastic professions can be noticed. Contradiction to the Church occurred, especially with the first Communists. 2. Moral consequences: cursing spread immensely, the number of alcoholics rose and the consequent ruin of farms increased. Care for war invalids and surviving soldiers was also insufficient. 3. Material consequences: the devaluation of money due to inflation and disintegration of the state. The diocese, chapter, and parishes lost most of their capital invested into war loans. All that remained was the real estate. Mass and other religious foundations were made bankrupt or were reduced. After the war, financial difficulties arose around the provision of income for priests and church employees (organists, sextons). The diocese had a hard time servicing patronage duties towards parishes under its patronage, because it had at the same time to assume the responsibilities of the former land prince (the emperor) towards the patronages of the Carniola religious fund. The restoration of the requisitioned church bells was a major financial burden for the parishes.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 7076954This contribution deals with several aspects of war and of the post-war circumstances in the Lavant diocese. The parishes found themselves caught up in the war regardless of the fact that none of them was located in the territory where battles were being fought. Priests and parishioners were faced with all consequences of the war. they suffered shortages, the prices of basic goods grew, they lost money and property, sacral buildings were destroyed, and, above all, they were faced with the loss of lives and for many of the survivors lasting consequences for their health and ability to work. They were faced with prisoners of war and refugees, disease, and hunger. Legal proceedings were underway against nationally-conscious individuals and clerics, who were being accused of not being patriotic enough or that they defended the interests of Serbia. The consequences of the war were felt in all areas of private and public life; they were present in the organisation of religious life and in the operation of church institutions. Numerous church buildings were occupied by the army to use for its own purposes. Monasteries beame military hospitals, while nuns helped to care for the sick and the wounded. Several new forms of piety were introduced, the aim of which was to pray for peace, only occasionally for military victories. Difficult circumstances and the lack of every necessity possible brought about new forms of charity; the time of war and the period immediately after it was the time when charity work and church charity institutions flourished.
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