The purpose of this paper is to indicate how, that is, with the help of which means, Chrysostom in his five homilies “On the Incomprehensible Nature of God” introduces his community in Antioch to the intricacies of the dispute with the Anomoeans, as far as the possibility of knowing God and his essence are concerned. The main differences between those texts and other fundamental polemical sources with Eunomius will also be taken under consideration. John uses both biblical and philosophical terms to underline the negative aspect of theology and his five homilies are not so theologically and philosophically sophisticated as Basil’s or Gregory’s texts, unlike even Gregory of Nazianzus, whose Orations, have a similar overall message. John uses methods adequate to accomplish his goal, which is to preserve the orthodox concept and unify the Antiochian Church.
{"title":"John Chrysostom 'On the Incomprehensible Nature of God' – The Simpler Way of Presenting Complex Theological and Philosophical Issues","authors":"Karolina Kochańczyk-Bonińska","doi":"10.31743/vp.14459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.14459","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to indicate how, that is, with the help of which means, Chrysostom in his five homilies “On the Incomprehensible Nature of God” introduces his community in Antioch to the intricacies of the dispute with the Anomoeans, as far as the possibility of knowing God and his essence are concerned. The main differences between those texts and other fundamental polemical sources with Eunomius will also be taken under consideration. John uses both biblical and philosophical terms to underline the negative aspect of theology and his five homilies are not so theologically and philosophically sophisticated as Basil’s or Gregory’s texts, unlike even Gregory of Nazianzus, whose Orations, have a similar overall message. John uses methods adequate to accomplish his goal, which is to preserve the orthodox concept and unify the Antiochian Church.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80305640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recenzja książki: Kasjodor, Pisma wybrane (Studia o Kasjodorze), przekład z języka łacińskiego Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda, ks. Krzysztof Burczak, ks. Jarosław Januszewski, ks. Lucjan Dyka, opracowanie ks. Marek Starowieyski, ks. Mikołaj Lohr, Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki, Kęty 2022, ss. 362.
{"title":"Kasjodor, Pisma wybrane (Studia o Kasjodorze), przekład z języka łacińskiego Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda, ks. Krzysztof Burczak, ks. Jarosław Januszewski, ks. Lucjan Dyka, opracowanie ks. Marek Starowieyski, ks. Mikołaj Lohr, Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki, Kęty 2022, ss. 362","authors":"Mariusz Szram","doi":"10.31743/vp.15529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.15529","url":null,"abstract":"Recenzja książki: Kasjodor, Pisma wybrane (Studia o Kasjodorze), przekład z języka łacińskiego Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda, ks. Krzysztof Burczak, ks. Jarosław Januszewski, ks. Lucjan Dyka, opracowanie ks. Marek Starowieyski, ks. Mikołaj Lohr, Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki, Kęty 2022, ss. 362.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84095973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tekst biblijny niewątpliwie ukształtował treść kazań Piotra Chryzologa. Wygłaszał on homilie także o Ewangelii św. Łukasza. Refleksja na temat uzdrowienia człowieka chorego na wodną puchlinę (Łk 14,2-4) pojawia się w Sermo 99 bis. Kazanie ma wydźwięk polemiczny, lecz dotyczy sytuacji opisanej w tekście ewangelicznym. Jest dopracowane pod względem oratorskim i teologicznym. Chryzolog podkreślał moralne i symboliczne znaczenie choroby. Mówca zastosował odpowiednie środki, by wywołać właściwą reakcję słuchaczy i przekazać naukę moralno-duchową. Jego homilia, podobnie jak inne mowy, obfitowały w figury stylistyczne i realistyczne porównania.
{"title":"Pharisaicus hydrops. Łk 14,2-4 w przepowiadaniu Piotra Chryzologa","authors":"M. Paczkowski","doi":"10.31743/vp.13907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.13907","url":null,"abstract":"Tekst biblijny niewątpliwie ukształtował treść kazań Piotra Chryzologa. Wygłaszał on homilie także o Ewangelii św. Łukasza. Refleksja na temat uzdrowienia człowieka chorego na wodną puchlinę (Łk 14,2-4) pojawia się w Sermo 99 bis. Kazanie ma wydźwięk polemiczny, lecz dotyczy sytuacji opisanej w tekście ewangelicznym. Jest dopracowane pod względem oratorskim i teologicznym. Chryzolog podkreślał moralne i symboliczne znaczenie choroby. Mówca zastosował odpowiednie środki, by wywołać właściwą reakcję słuchaczy i przekazać naukę moralno-duchową. Jego homilia, podobnie jak inne mowy, obfitowały w figury stylistyczne i realistyczne porównania.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80575535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
En este artículo se propone analizar el tratamiento que otorga Evagrio Póntico a las emociones, especialmente la alegría, en sus Escolios a los salmos. En primer lugar, se contextualizará la obra de Evagrio, que acaba de ser publicada, con sus características propias, tanto de género literario cuanto a lo concerniente al tipo de exégesis evagriana. Luego, se abordarán el lugar que ocupan en el texto las emociones, haciendo particular hincapié en una de ellas, la alegría, a partir del análisis de todas las ocurrencias del concepto en los Escolios. Como resultado, se observa que la hermenéutica evagriana de los salmos, al menos para el caso de la alegría, es fundamentalmente alegórica lo cual imposibilitaría o negaría la existencia de la alegría en el hombre según su sentido clásico, ya que sólo puede experimentarse como la reacción ante la posesión de un bien espiritual, que es la gnosis o conocimiento de Dios. De esta manera, los Escolios a los salmos apoyan la interpretación fundamentalmente espiritualista de la doctrina de Evagrio Póntico.
{"title":"La emoción de la alegría en los Escolios a los salmos de Evagrio Póntico","authors":"Rubén Peretó-Rivas","doi":"10.31743/vp.14114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.14114","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo se propone analizar el tratamiento que otorga Evagrio Póntico a las emociones, especialmente la alegría, en sus Escolios a los salmos. En primer lugar, se contextualizará la obra de Evagrio, que acaba de ser publicada, con sus características propias, tanto de género literario cuanto a lo concerniente al tipo de exégesis evagriana. Luego, se abordarán el lugar que ocupan en el texto las emociones, haciendo particular hincapié en una de ellas, la alegría, a partir del análisis de todas las ocurrencias del concepto en los Escolios. Como resultado, se observa que la hermenéutica evagriana de los salmos, al menos para el caso de la alegría, es fundamentalmente alegórica lo cual imposibilitaría o negaría la existencia de la alegría en el hombre según su sentido clásico, ya que sólo puede experimentarse como la reacción ante la posesión de un bien espiritual, que es la gnosis o conocimiento de Dios. De esta manera, los Escolios a los salmos apoyan la interpretación fundamentalmente espiritualista de la doctrina de Evagrio Póntico.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72654682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of the book: Marcela ANDOKOVÁ, Čierna som a predsa krásna. Tyconiov výklad Piesne piesní 1, 5 (I am Black Yet Beautiful. Tyconius’s Interpretation of Song 1:5), Iris, Bratislava 2020.
{"title":"Marcela ANDOKOVÁ, Čierna som a predsa krásna. Tyconiov výklad Piesne piesní 1, 5 (I am Black Yet Beautiful. Tyconius’s Interpretation of Song 1:5), Iris, Bratislava 2020, pp. 226","authors":"Marcin Wysocki","doi":"10.31743/vp.15577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.15577","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the book: Marcela ANDOKOVÁ, Čierna som a predsa krásna. Tyconiov výklad Piesne piesní 1, 5 (I am Black Yet Beautiful. Tyconius’s Interpretation of Song 1:5), Iris, Bratislava 2020.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84796813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the late 4th century, bishops utilized the so-called ius intercessionis right to intervene in order to help those in need, be they the persecuted, the accused or the convicted. These actions of a bishop were rooted foremost in the idea of mercy and it was also due to this right that a bishop became the one to decide about the granting of the right to asylum – a right which was gradually extended to Christian churches at the time. St. Augustine encounters the issue of Christian asylum as the bishop of Hippo Regius in Africa mainly in his preserved correspondence, but he talks about seeking sanctuary in Christian churches also in one of his sermons, specifically in Sermo 302 delivered on the feast of St. Lawrence. This paper focuses on presenting the circumstances of a violent act in Hippo Regius and its implications to potentially sanctuary seeking in local Christian church, particularly on the ground of analysis of post sermonem to Sermo 302.
{"title":"On Christian Asylum in Augustine’s Sermones","authors":"Daniela Hrnčiarová","doi":"10.31743/vp.14097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.14097","url":null,"abstract":"In the late 4th century, bishops utilized the so-called ius intercessionis right to intervene in order to help those in need, be they the persecuted, the accused or the convicted. These actions of a bishop were rooted foremost in the idea of mercy and it was also due to this right that a bishop became the one to decide about the granting of the right to asylum – a right which was gradually extended to Christian churches at the time. St. Augustine encounters the issue of Christian asylum as the bishop of Hippo Regius in Africa mainly in his preserved correspondence, but he talks about seeking sanctuary in Christian churches also in one of his sermons, specifically in Sermo 302 delivered on the feast of St. Lawrence. This paper focuses on presenting the circumstances of a violent act in Hippo Regius and its implications to potentially sanctuary seeking in local Christian church, particularly on the ground of analysis of post sermonem to Sermo 302.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81204915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recenzja książki: Tatiana KRYNICKA, Święty Mikołaj z Myr Licyjskich w świetle greckich i łacińskich źródeł starożytnych i średniowiecznych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2022.
{"title":"Tatiana KRYNICKA, Święty Mikołaj z Myr Licyjskich w świetle greckich i łacińskich źródeł starożytnych i średniowiecznych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2022, ss. 210","authors":"D. Budzanowska-Weglenda","doi":"10.31743/vp.15038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.15038","url":null,"abstract":"Recenzja książki: Tatiana KRYNICKA, Święty Mikołaj z Myr Licyjskich w świetle greckich i łacińskich źródeł starożytnych i średniowiecznych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2022.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79966556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominik Mokoš (1718–22.XII.1776) was a Franciscan monk and religious writer who also acted as preacher, vicar, teacher and chronicler in the second half of the 18th century in various regions of Slovakia (such as Nižná Šebastová, Stropkov, Kremnica, Pruské, Okoličné, Beckov) or as a missionary in various areas of Šariš, Spiš, Orava and Poland. He was one of the most prolific authors of homiletic literature in the second half of the 18th century in Slovakia. In his Marian, Christmas and lenten preaching, we can identify intertextual references to the Bible, patristic, medieval and humanist religious literature. This study focuses on how these sources were used by Mokoš to draft his sermons and how he applied their moral tidings to the particular situations that the believers in the 18th century were facing.
{"title":"Sermons as a Formation of Ethical Behavior of Man in the Second Half of the 18th Century, Based on the Example of Sermons by Dominik Mokoš OFM (1718-1776)","authors":"A. Škovierová","doi":"10.31743/vp.13561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.13561","url":null,"abstract":"Dominik Mokoš (1718–22.XII.1776) was a Franciscan monk and religious writer who also acted as preacher, vicar, teacher and chronicler in the second half of the 18th century in various regions of Slovakia (such as Nižná Šebastová, Stropkov, Kremnica, Pruské, Okoličné, Beckov) or as a missionary in various areas of Šariš, Spiš, Orava and Poland. He was one of the most prolific authors of homiletic literature in the second half of the 18th century in Slovakia. In his Marian, Christmas and lenten preaching, we can identify intertextual references to the Bible, patristic, medieval and humanist religious literature. This study focuses on how these sources were used by Mokoš to draft his sermons and how he applied their moral tidings to the particular situations that the believers in the 18th century were facing.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89186039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
St. Augustine’s work De bono viduitatis written in 414 is not a treatise but a letter addressed to widow issued from a noble Roman family named Juliana. She with her daughter and mother-in-law attempts to live the consecrated way of life. Under the strong influence of the ascetism and moralism of Pelagius, she begs Augustine to acquire the essential instructions for their devotion. Augustine in his answer proposes the original teaching on the widowhood based on the Holy Scripture, especially on the letters of apostle Paul, and encourages the women in their consecration to observe the goods of the widowhood. Nevertheless, St. Augustine does not write this letter only to Juliana. He desires that this letter will be spread to the other widows as well. The aim of our paper is to analyse the Augustine’s letter to Juliana and focus our interest on the homiletical forms used by St. Augustine. Our argumentation is based on the analyse of this letter and on its comparison with Augustine’s style of preaching. Examining the rhetoric elements used and known by St. Augustine as they are summarized in the Book Four of his treatise On Christian Doctrine it enables us to present the style of Augustine – preacher and consequently to find some similarity and differences.
{"title":"Letter or Sermon? The Analysis of Augustine’s \"De Bono Viduitatis\"","authors":"Anabela Katreničová","doi":"10.31743/vp.13894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.13894","url":null,"abstract":"St. Augustine’s work De bono viduitatis written in 414 is not a treatise but a letter addressed to widow issued from a noble Roman family named Juliana. She with her daughter and mother-in-law attempts to live the consecrated way of life. Under the strong influence of the ascetism and moralism of Pelagius, she begs Augustine to acquire the essential instructions for their devotion. Augustine in his answer proposes the original teaching on the widowhood based on the Holy Scripture, especially on the letters of apostle Paul, and encourages the women in their consecration to observe the goods of the widowhood. Nevertheless, St. Augustine does not write this letter only to Juliana. He desires that this letter will be spread to the other widows as well. The aim of our paper is to analyse the Augustine’s letter to Juliana and focus our interest on the homiletical forms used by St. Augustine. Our argumentation is based on the analyse of this letter and on its comparison with Augustine’s style of preaching. Examining the rhetoric elements used and known by St. Augustine as they are summarized in the Book Four of his treatise On Christian Doctrine it enables us to present the style of Augustine – preacher and consequently to find some similarity and differences.","PeriodicalId":23994,"journal":{"name":"Vox Patrum","volume":"193 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78323713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grzegorz z Nazjanzu i Jan Chryzostom na przestrzeni czasu zostali uznani za najwybitniejszych kaznodziejów Kościoła na Wschodzie. Celem obecnego artykułu jest wykazanie, że różnili się w sposobie opracowania tekstów publicznych wystąpień, co implikuje potrzebę odrębnego podejścia do ich dorobku. Obaj Ojcowie tworzyli w okresie, gdy retorykę wykorzystywano bardziej na potrzeby rozrywki niż przekazu wiedzy, a znani z biegłości krasomówczej sofiści uchodzili za przekupnych i zdeprawowanych. Na przestrzeni kilkudziesięciu lat doprowadziło to w Kościele do odrzucenia warsztatu retorycznego na rzecz bardziej przystępnego co do formy i języka gatunku – homilii.
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