Original scientific paper

Founding the Bogoslovska smotra and the Antimodernist Oath

Tonči Matulić ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author of this article questions the possible relation between the ideal to launch the scientific-theological periodical Bogoslovska smotra on the one hand and the so-called controversy of anti-modernist on the other. It is an unquestionable historical fact that the Bogoslovska smotra was launched the same year (1910) that Pope Pius X released the Motu proporio Sacrorum antistitum on September 1st, which is better known as the Oath against modernism or the Antimodernist oath. With the background of this historical fact, based primarily on document research and later on headlines in the Katolicčki list newspaper, in the article the author endeavours to disclose the reasons for the difficulties to launch a new scientific-theological periodical by the University of Zagreb, Catholic Faculty of Theology (KBF). This then leads to research of headlines and articles during the first few years of the Bogoslovska smotra being published, particularly editorials, in an effort perhaps intuitively to arrive at the real - internal - reasons to firstly delay editions of the Bogoslovska smotra at the KBF and then later to allow its publishing but as a supplement to the Katolički list for the first two years. In order to offer the article a sense of systemisation and credibility the article is divided into four parts. The first part briefly presents a draft of the modernist controversy. In part two, the author seeks for possible ties between the modernist circumstances and the idea to launch the Bogoslovska smotra. He does this primarily based on headlines in the Katolički list. In part three, the author looks for possible connections between anti-modernism and the Bogoslovska smotra primarily based on analysis of articles released. In the final-part four - the author brings out the real reasons to launch the Bogoslovska smotra which, at least it seems that way, were not burdened with modernist tendencies within Catholic theology in Croatia. The author however considers that ambiguous anti-modernist articles in the Katolički list and Bogoslovska smotra to a certain measure wish to remove any doubt from its founders of them entertaining any ideas of modernism. We emphasise this because suspicion of modernism was a general notion in Catholic circles of the times.

Keywords

modernism; anti-modernism; Antimodernist Oath; Katolički list; Bogoslovska smotra; Faculty of Catholic Theology; University of Zagreb; the Church

Hrčak ID:

66572

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/66572

Publication date:

12.4.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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