Preliminary communication
Religious themes in the texts of Drago Ćepulić
Ivan Macut
orcid.org/0000-0001-8343-8902
; Croatian Catholic Mission in Berlin
Abstract
This work is divided into three parts. In the first part the author presents a short biography of Drago Ćepulić and lists his most important works. The second part discusses the major characteristics of Ćepulić’s creativity as a whole in order to give an approximate insight into his work. The third part, and also the main part of the work, is talking about religious themes in the author’s texts. The author presents a number of important religious issues to be dealt with for the author’s life: the saints as role models, in a special way Ivan Merz, about prayer, about the Church, about faith, about the cross and the Protestants. From the religious theme it is obvious that Ćepulić is firmly standing on the position of Catholic teaching, at the same time rejecting Protestantism and asking for the future generations to be raised in Catholic religion. He considered the Catholic faith extremely important for the preservation of European culture as a whole. His texts were published in the daily and weekly newspapers and thus Ćepulić could reach a large number of readers. In his reli- gious texts one cannot find exaggeration, religious sentimental- ism or heresy, but they are measured and extremely stimulating and instructive for the readers.
Keywords
Drago Ćepulić; religious themes; the Church; the Eucharist; the Cross
Hrčak ID:
155294
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Publication date:
8.4.2016.
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