The article aims at disclosing complementary and contrasting relationships between dimensions of justice in the span between the cosmic, social and personal domains. Investigation into di-mensions of justice is inspired by recognition of some justice principles that are the same in all or most cultures, even though representation of justice is strongly dependent upon local mytho-logy, religion and shared history. Justice can be considered a cosmic system, a virtue of social institutions or practices, agreement among parties about common interest, or integral righteou-sness of persons discerned by intuition. This distinction is fundamental and far-reaching. Any discussion about the question of justice opens horizons of multiple dimensions of justice, such as moral sense, inborn rights and moral rightness, cardinal virtues, regulative symbols or prin-ciples, all kinds of social contracts and the ordering principle of the universe. The personal di-mension of justice means an attribute of God in his relationship to humans and a necessary vir-tue of humans in relationship to God, as well as in their interaction with others. An individual can display qualities such as integrity, charity and loyalty. The rationale of the article is recogni-tion of the unity of being and the necessary unity of the moral and the legal order.
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The contribution presents Ivan Cankar’s (1876–1918) critical stance on Austria-Hungary’s policy and his public efforts for a community of equal Yugoslav peoples prior to the outbreak of the Great War, when progressive intellectuals, including Cankar, were persecuted because of their views. It depicts author’s military service in Judenburg in 1915 and, in particular, his artistic word during wartime. In his collection of short stories Podobe iz sanj (Dream Visions, 1917), which was penned under strict state censorship, he renounces war and violence, and expresses his vision of a brighter future for the Slovene people. Echoes of war atrocities experienced by soldiers and civilians is also an important subject matter in works by European and also American authors, poets and historians, some of whom were soldiers themselves. The author is interested in the question, whether literary works about war, written by poets-soldiers in the front differ from the works written by the poets-civilians during the war. The aim of the study is also disclosing of predominating aspects of reception of literature authored by both kategories of poets and writers.
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The article presents some aspects of comprehending dimensions of reality and truth, as presen-ted by literature. It is on the doctoral dissertation entitled Reality and Truth in Literature, in Se-lected Biblical Texts and Their Literary Interpretation (487 pages). Along common findings of literary critics, 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 dimensi-ons 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 reference 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. Contem-porary biblical criticism helps make possible fuller readings of the text, with a particular empha-sis 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. The article is limited to some aspects of the second and of the third part of the disserta-tion. With the findings about the specific aspects of biblical literary accounts of reality and truth in comparison with general literature the article complemets the above mentioned dissertation.
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The article discusses the development of the notion of communion (lat. communio) in the Catholic Church, from the Pius-Benedict Code of Canon Law of 1917 through the Second Vatican Council to the changes brought by the Code of Canon Law of 1983 and the subsequent documents of the Magisterium of the Church. Whereas a baptized person either was or was not a member of the Catholic Church before the Council, there are several levels of belonging to the Church after the Council. A baptized person can be fully or partially in communion with the Church according to the criteria determined by the precepts in Cann. 11, 205 and 750 § 1-2 of the CCL and in the motu proprio of Pope John paul II Ad tuendam fidem of 1998. While the CCL speaks of communion primarily in relation to the non-Catholic Christians other documents address various aspects of full and partial communion of Catholic Christians wihtin the Church itself. The Notion of communion is not univocal and is used in different ways in different contexts. Objectively and legally speaking, a baptized person is fully in communion with the Catholic Church when he is joined with Christ in its visible structure by the bonds of profession of faith, of the sacraments and of ecclesiastical govenance (CCL, Can 205). Subjectively and theologically speaking the level of communion depends on the state of santifying grace and on the parallel desires, decisions and deeds of individuals.
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The paper is integrated in a larger project led by the Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, and published by the prestigious Routledge scholarly series Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States. Volume nr. 3 represents religious orders of the 20th century which had to undergo very difficult times under the totalitarian regimes, their situa-tion of conflict with the authorities and their further development after the political changes in the Eastern Europe. With this paper the Slovenian catholic community is on the equal level inte-grated in the history of Church institutions of the 20th century. Thus some aspects of the Slove-nian Church and general history are available to the American public and to English speaking audience in general. The book had a very positive reviews and some press conferences have been organized in order to introduce the new volume.
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