Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):1-13 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0021372
In this paper I deal with the tenth and eleventh verses of Ecclesiastes chapter 3. The eleventh verse in particular constitutes almost a nightmare for translators. First, I examine the range of Czech translations of these verses. I consequently deal with single words or collocations and finally explore the context and links with other passages in the book of Ecclesiastes. My aim is to seek out a convincing exposition of these biblical verses.
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):15-23 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0591326
The Book of Isaiah is one of the most quoted or alluded to Old Testament books by the apostle Paul. The contribution studies these quotations or allusions in First Corinthians. The analysed passages are those on the outer margin of the critical edition of the New Testament Nestle‑Aland. The analysis confirms that Paul knew and used the Septuagint. His use of the Hebrew text cannot be confirmed with certainty. He may have also depended on a preexisting Greek translation of the Old Testament that was different from the Septuagint. Those of Paul’s citations which are at times relatively free are such because he quoted by heart and it is apparent...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):25-48 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0321216
Clement of Alexandria quotes the Book of Psalms more than any other Old Testament book and does so more frequently than any other early Christian author apart from from Origen. The aim of this article is to examine Clement’s use of the Psalter in his works. First, it demonstrates how Clement quotes from the Psalms, specifically what sort of introductory wording he uses. It is apparent that the Book of Psalms has many different functions for Clement: a tool of evangelisation, the word of God himself educating human beings, a Christian book of prayer, prophetic writing, a source of theology (providing evidence of God’s characteristics), and...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):49-73 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0101318
The goal of this article is to contribute to current theological reflections on the category in which the Second Vatican Council describes the historical development of the Church: the Living Tradition. In dialogue with the social sciences we attempt to explore this Church existence in its openness as unsaturation of its present form. The interest in perceiving the Church as an open system and as an emerging structure is supported by both the theological view and the social sciences view. The social sciences point out the need for coherent cooperation between the human factor and the products of reification, which form the tradition of every intersubjective...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):75-98 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0851134
Over the course of history distinct ecclesial communities emerged within Christianity emphasizing different values and varied aspects of the one faith. They meet for conversations and mutually recognize one another as separate corporative entities with their own identities and responsibilities. Their members also constitute a single temple inhabited by one Spirit, incorporated by baptism into one Lord and with one God at work in them, so that they are in some sense one community with a single identity. A theologian may obtain new insight into this mystery through the Dialogical Self Theory, which construes the human self as constituted by a multitude...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):99-116 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0471258
Lectors were known in the Church from the its very beginning. They were included in the clerical state in the third century. Pope Caius listed them among the hierarchy of the Church. Pope Siricius later described the rules associated with stages and levels ascending to Holy Orders indicating that the lectorship is one of the routes towards priesthood. In terms of the liturgical aspect, these decisions were confirmed by the Roman-Germanic Pontifical of the tenth century which established the same structure of rite of the lector’s order as that of other minor orders. The lector ceased to be a minor order in 1972 under the Ministeria quaedam by...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):117-143 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0901109
The article concerns an aspect of the poetic imagination of hymns contained in the Trinity Hymnal and the way it expresses three selected theological topics of Presbyterian spirituality. The Trinity Hymnal is the primary hymnal of conservative Presbyterian Churches in the USA. First, the article analyzes the concept of poetic imagination as a language of spirituality, and briefly examines the role of hymns in the Reformed worship. Secondly, it summarizes three theological topics of Presbyterianism expressed in selected hymns of the Trinity Hymnal: Sola Scriptura, Creation and Human Nature and Destiny. The topics are theologically defined primarily...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):145-167 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0711151
In this paper, the author discusses Darwinism and evolutionism in an Italian context. It also presents two personages of Catholic thinking in Italy in the 1890s who were open to the idea of the evolutionary origin of man. Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911), a Catholic writer, anticipated in his vision what can later be found in the work of P. Teilhard de Chardin. Bishop Geremia Bonomelli (1831–1914) accepted the thesis of the American pioneer of the Catholic concept of the evolutionary origin of man, John Augustine Zahm. It is of interest that none of the above mentioned authors mentions Raffaello Caverni, who spoke in the same spirit as early...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):169-192 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2017.0871140
Joseph Vialatoux is the main figure in social Catholicism in France in the first half of the twentieth century. During the Nazi occupation he examined the nature of Pétain’s government in Vichy and the legitimacy of resistance of General de Gaulle. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Vichy’s power, which Vialatoux reveals as a totalitarian regime, he deals with general philosophical reflections on political power. It may be surprising for some that here the author uses the scholastic model, which can already be found in works more than three hundred years earlier in the political thinking of Francisco Suárez. This theoretical analysis...
Studia Theologica 2018, 20(3):193-214 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0131313
Auditus fidei is an inseparable part of the study of dogmatic theology, focused on the historical process of the transferring of the annunciation of faith. What is specifically, however, the history of this historical exploration? The present article attempts to answer this question at least partially. Its aim is to present a particular historical event in the development of so-called historical, or positive theology in the hermeneutics of mystery. Using the examples of treatises by magisters Richard and Hugh of St. Victor, the article demonstrates how these hermeneutics were cultivated in the twelfth century Parisian abbey. It focuses on exploring...
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