Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 93 No. 1, 2023.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.93.1.3
Institute of Religious Sciences: on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary in the Light of Changes in the Croatian Church and Social Context
Denis Barić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article consists of four parts. In the first part, the historical context related to the foundation of the Catechetical Institute at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Zagreb is explored. The second part describes the creation of the Catechetical Institute as a response to the need for the formation of catechist nuns in parish communities, taking into account the importance of religious education in parish communities in the time after the Second World War. The third part describes the changes that the Catechetical Institute has undergone in its study concept with regard to the guidelines of certain documents of the general Church, where its significant contribution to the training of religious teachers after the democratic changes in the Republic of Croatia is highlighted. Finally, in the last part, the path of changes at the Institute is presented at the epistemological and content-study level, with respect to the new socio-cultural and religious challenges, as well as in relation to the increasing importance and meaning of education in the modern world.
Keywords
Catechetical Institute; Institute of Religious Sciences; Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb; catechists; religious teachers.
Hrčak ID:
305879
URI
Publication date:
12.7.2023.
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