Original scientific paper
Signs of the time in today Europe as a chalange to the theology of Central Eastern Europe
Ivan Fuček
; Papinsko sveučilište Gregorijana, u Rimu, Rim, Italija
Abstract
This is an outline for an urgent theological discussion on »signs of the time« in today's Europe, including a separate analysis of the position of former Yugoslavia, provided the same »signs» might represent a strong challenge to European theology. In the frame of religion, happenings in history, time, and life /not only some of them but all of them/ are bound to be seen as »locus theologicus« recognizable as such by »theological criteria«. With this aim in view, only six such outstanding events have been selected: heroic confession of faith under communism; the downfall of this commu¬nism; the ambivalence of this downfall; two dangerous philosophical ideo¬logies against God, Christ, The Church /new conservatism and progressism/; the uprise of new nationalisms confronted with the correct concept of »the nation« in the re-establishment of identity as opposed to »the state«; reason for the stagnation of ecumenism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches related to the Serbian aggression against Croatia, and Bosnia and Hercegovina.
The sources and the literature are almost exclusively works of theologians in this field, especially those from Croatia. The differences or attitudes in the interpretations of the signs of the times between theologians from the Mid¬dle East and the West are stressed and analysed.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
51824
URI
Publication date:
23.8.1993.
Visits: 1.083 *