Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 83 No. 2, 2013.
Original scientific paper
Theological »Tetragrams« in the Works of Tomislav Janko Šagi-Bunić
Anto Barišić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-7233
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In a study of Šagi-Bunić's diverse theological opus, the author demonstrates and reveals in this article that Šagi-Bunić's theology has a »tetragramic« character. Until now his theology has never been studied under this aspect, which establishes the original character of this study. In the introduction, the author points out that the term »tetragram« needs to be understood in a symbolic and metaphorical sense, because the four different themes, which are, in the end, combined into tetragram, are so inter-twined that it is impossible to divide them and to examine them in isolation from each other. In his study of Šagi-Bunić's theology, the author has so far identified twelve such tetragrams, which are enumerated in this article. After the introduction, the author gives a summary presentation of the development of Šagi-Bunić's »tetragramic« theology, which started to take shape already in his earliest works. In the main section of the article, the author engages in a detailed analysis of only two such tetragrams: the first one which he names the tetragram of sources and which consists of revelation, tradition, magisterium, and theology, and the last one which he names the tetragram of dialogue and which consists of Eucharist, pastoral work, ecumenism, and dialogue. The author concludes the article with an open question on whether Šagi-Bunić consciously and deliberately wanted a reader and a researcher to discover the tetragramic character of his theology or is this character a product of a spontaneous, dynamic, and evolving growth that shaped his theology in such a way. In any case, at this point both options remain in the area of possible hypotheses.
Keywords
Tomislav Janko Šagi-Bunić; tetragram; theology; Second Vatican Council; dialogue
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105293
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Publication date:
8.7.2013.
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