December 2006
Vallás – bölcselet


  Bevezető
  

  Kézemelés Istenre?
  Rigán Lóránd

  Emberi méltóság – filozófiai gondolkodás
  Gáspár Csaba László

  „Ki a bölcs közületek?”
  Bakos T. Gergely

  Az egyháztörténet a teológia és a történetírás metszéspontjában
  Jakab Attila

  Ricardo Reis Tahitin (vers)
  Bogdán László

  A prototeológiától a vallásbölcseletig
  Mezei Balázs

  (1.) Talált vers az utazásról; Harmincöt
  Lászlóffy Csaba

  Devóció, hitvallás, poézis – karácsonyi énekeink értékszerkezete
  Farmati Anna

  Az ökumenikus állapot és párbeszéd Európában
  Nagypál Szabolcs

  Vallás, antropológia, politika
  Losonczi Péter


1956–2006
  Kiket is üldözött a „dolgozók állama”?
  Koczka György

  Közel és távol: 1956
  Kántor Lajos


Tájoló
  Lükő Gábor alapműve és aktualitása a jelenlegi csángókutatásokban
  Kinda István–Peti Lehel


História
  A kisebbségi kérdés megoldásának egy pozitív példája: Dél-Tirol esete (I.)
  Gulyás László


Világablak
  A magyar kultúra irányvételének kérdései európai és finanszírozási összefüggésekben
  Egyed Péter

  Emberek, emberek...
  Dobos László


Mű és világa
  Az örök élet keresztény hite
  Boros István

  Egy lírikus ’56-ban
  Burján–Gál Emil


Levelestár
  „Az idő őrlésének kitéve”
  Sümegi György bevezetőjével


Téka
  Fricska
  Vallasek Júlia

  Kortörténeti diagnózis
  Soós Amália

  Egy pad, két szereplő
  Bálint Enikő

  Olvasószolgálat
  

  A Korunk könyvajánlata
  


Talló
  Blogoszféra
  Ferencz Enikő

  Rajzfilm ’56-ról
  S. L.

  Trágár szavak szótára
  R. L.



  Abstracts
  

  Számunk szerzői
  

Abstracts

 

Gergely T. Bakos

Who among You Is Wise? From the Limits of Scholastic Theology towards Interreligious Dialogue

This paper treats the problem of theological epistemology with the help of two mediaeval theologians, Ramón Lull (1232/1233-c.1316) and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). This topic concerns our possibility of coming to a knowledge of God, and it can be related both to the recognition of the limits of scholastic theology and to inter-religious dialogue. The study draws a sketch of Ramón’s and Nicholas’s criticism against scholastic theology and offers a more detailed consideration of the latter’s second most important work, the De Coniecturis (1440). Nicholas’s thought is interpreted within the broader framework of his manuductive concern. A short comparison contrasting the Cusanian ars coniecturalis with the Lullian ars gives the possibility to evaluate Nicholas’s project, and his mystical theology opens up fruitful perspectives both for the Cusanian studies and for an interreligious dialogue. Nicholas’s example amply demonstrates that faithful engagement in the Church’s life, critical theological reflection and dialogue with other religions are not mutually contradicting options.

 

Péter Egyed

Questions of Direction in the Hungarian Culture in a European and Financial Context

The premises of the study show how important it is for the researcher to have an own interpretation of culture. Based on this assumption, it highlights the importance of the Renaissance model, as a model in which art and science were intermingled. Finally it calls to attention that the intercultural/multicultural point of view is favorable for the research of culture. The second part of the paper contains a data analysis which presents the Hungarian cultural support system. According to this, in the last fifteen years the Hungarian state supported financially with a sum of 50 billion HUF the Hungarian research institutes, schools, cultural organizations, projects and different events beyond the borders of the Hungarian state. But, as recent evaluations have shown, this supporting system was based on a policy lacking any conception, in which the most important, quite ideologically sounding slogan was the supporting of the „remainder in their fatherland”. If no conception is found to become the basis of this supporting system, it will lead towards chaos, its efficiency will be lost, and finally it will also show that the participation of politics in culture has only negative effects.

 

Anna Farmati

Devotion, Confession, Poetry – The Value System of Our Christmas Carols

The literary and practical value of the 17th century Christmas songs represents a balance between the early Christian motifs expressing abstract theological doctrines, the affective elements of the Gothic spirituality, and artistic expression. In the case of the cantios this balance is expressed by the proportionality of topoi of theological and spiritual character. This strong expressivity became superficial along the centuries: due to the so-called pius dictamen the songs often transformed into chansons.

 

László Gulyás

The History of the South-Tyrol Region

The South-Tyrolian German minority – counting a number of 260.000 persons – is living in one of the best circumstances among the European minorities. Moreover, the South-Tyrol region is one of the best developed regions of Europe. The paper presents the history of this minority and the history of the South-Tyrol region from the Middle Ages until the present. First of all, it attempts to answer the question if the situation of South-Tyrol represents a political and economical example for those borderline regions of Central-Europe which have similar problems.

 

Attila Jakab

Church History between Theology and Historiography

Nowadays we witness a paradigm shift in the international research, which shifts the focus of attention from „Church history” to the „history of Christianity”. This, however, is not reflected in the Hungarian, mostly Catholic church historiography, where the theological (eschatological) approach still prevails. From a scientific point of view, that cannot be considered a valid interpretational approach anymore. At the same time, there is a Hungarian-oriented church historiography as well, which is satisfied with source analysis, but suffers from lacks of basis to draw any wider, farther reaching consequences. Most of the historical essays are ad hoc, a fact originated from the lack of an institutional and professional network. There seems to be little chance in the near future to change this situation, because there is hardly any tradition of a historiography without ideological bias.

 

Péter Losonczi

Religion, Anthropology, Politics. On the Habermas–Ratzinger Debate

The paper analyses some problems posed by a discussion between Ratzinger and Habermas held in 2004. This debate was concerned with the pre-political, moral foundations of the liberal state, and focused on the possible role that religion may gain in this respect. Furthermore, it can be interpreted as an important element of the so-called post-secular discourse evolving in contemporary social science and philosophy. Although the discussion of Habermas and Ratzinger touches upon essential questions as the matters of law and political theology, the essay addresses another crucial issue that is present in it, namely the anthropological bases of the included theories. Relying on Ricoeur’s analysis of the symbolic character of the idea of evil, it argues that this may function as a common element in a dialogue between religion and philosophy. However, it also clarifies that the „meaning potential” that Habermas attributes to religious ideas are of such a nature that might surpass the limits which Habermas seems to admit with regard to this post-secular discourse, and points to essential differences between the otherwise converging arguments of Ratzinger and Habermas.

 

Balázs Mezei

From Prototheology to the Philosophy of Religion

In his article the author presents the philosophical development that took place between his two important publications, God in Parentheses and Philosophy of Religion. In God in Parentheses he

aims to develop a new kind of philoso-phical–theological thinking on the basis of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. His second main work, Philosophy of Religion attempts to advance further his earlier insights into the importance of this kind of thinking. As opposed to God in Parentheses, where the historical framework is European phenomenology, in Philosophy of Religion it is Western thought that is reconsidered in order to advance a unique position in the philosophy of religion. The author shows how God in Parentheses already contains many of the important elements of the second book. He emphasizes the continuity between the two works, which are considered a unique and characteristic development in Hungarian language philosophy of religion.

 

Szabolcs Nagypál

Ecumenical Condition and Dialogue in Europe

A survey of the Békés Gellért Ecumenical Institute, Pannonhalma, in the spirit of Mark 5,25–34, explores the ecumenical condition in Europe, the roots of division, the role of education and reception. The paper looks at the ways how local congregations live, consult their ministers and are encouraged; and how the sacraments embody the peak and foundation of community life, making peace and grace present. Ecumenical dialogue also involves faith, peace, healing and solidarity in Church and society. The acknow-ledgment of our responsibility in ecumenical engagement, and the globalisation of dialogue hopefully lead us to Christian enlightenment and resurrection in unity.