Pregledni rad
History of the Biblical Institute at the Catholic Facultyof Theology of the University of Zagreb
Taras Barščevski
orcid.org/0000-0003-2132-1105
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Based on the recommendations of the dogmatic constitution about Devine Announcement Dei Verbum from the Second Vatican Council, in the Catholic Church emerged numerous initiatives: from liturgical renewal within the Church up to ecumenic initiatives, from translations of the Holy Script into various languages up to attempts of certain biblical groups that emerged at all the levels of ecclesiastical life. Special role in this renewal and modernization of the Church, according to Dei Verbum, had exegetists who, besides common apostolic task to »investigate and promote Devine Scripture in order that as many as possible servants of the Devine Words manage to successfully maintain fruits of the Scriptures that enlighten spirit, strengthen will and incite hearts of people to love towards God« (DV 23), had their peculiar task to examine, deeply understand, and reveal what hagiographers wanted to say and express; keeping in mind – at the same time – content and unity of the entire Holy Scripture, as well as living tradition of the Church and analogy of the faith (DV 12). These guidelines of the sixth chapter of »Dei Verbum« on »Holy Scripture in the life of Church« became inspiration for the Croatian Bible researchers, who in 1975 supported initiative of the chair and docents of two biblical departments at Catholic Faculty of Theology to unite their forces in order to start a profound study and scholarly research in the field of the Biblical apostolate, and better pastoral care. Thus, because of this enthusiasm and consciousness about importance of the Biblical studies in the life of Church on 9 December 1978 the Institute of Biblical Pastoral was established within the Catholic Faculty of Theology. However, when in 1991 University of Zagreb proclaimed that Catholic Faculty of Theology is a part of the University, the Institute came across a new challenge to define its mission not only regarding pastoral care but also in the field of scholarly research. Therefore, in April 2001 the Episcopal Conference of Croatia established Croatian Catholic Bible Works (CCBW) in order that this organization continue supporting goals of the Institute regarding pastoral care, while the Institute was reformed into Biblical institute in order to maintain scholarly research. From 2003 up to today the Institute has organized eight international conferences, and from 2006 in cooperation with the CCBW they publish journal »Biblija danas« [Bible today], which was started already in 1996. Today Biblical institute consists of Chair of the Holy Scripture of the Old Testament and Chair of the Holy Scripture of the New Testament, where work more than 40 researchers of Bible from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ključne riječi
Institute of Biblical Pastoral; Biblical Institute; Croatian Catholic Bible Works.
Hrčak ID:
232555
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2019.
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