Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 85 No. 1, 2015.
Original scientific paper
The Dean’s Office of T. J. Šagi-Bunić in the University, Social, and Ecclesial Context
Anto Barišić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-7233
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On the basis of original archival materials that have not been researched until now, in this article the author presents more clearly the position and role of the dean of the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb (KBF), Tomislav Janko Šagi-Bunić. Šagi-Bunić held that office, at the KBF, but also at the level of the Church, the University and society, as well as their mutual relations, for eight mandates. The article has been divided in a few mutually related parts that analyse systematically on individual dean’s mandates through which the author followed activities of thedean Šagi-Bunić at the Faculty and outside of it. At one point a peritus at the Second Vatican Council, professor Šagi-Bunić as a dean showed extremely conciliar and dialogical sensibility, openness, and availability both for the conservative and for the progressive streams within the Faculty, in society, and in the Church. In this article the author reached the conclusion that dean Šagi-Bunić was always led by the principle of dialogue that was necessary, especially in sometimes very complex relations within the Faculty (resignations and the management crisis) and in relation of the Faculty towards the University (distance and reintegration).
Keywords
Tomislav Janko Šagi-Bunić; Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb; professor; dean; the University; the Church; society
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138495
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Publication date:
30.4.2015.
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