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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
UDC 821.163.6:27
Luka Kelc
Some explanations of the attitude towards erotic love among Slovene
Lutherans and Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries
This paper attempts to explain repudiative views on erotic love in selected
works of Primož Trubar, Jurij Dalmatin, Adam Skalar and Matija Kastelec
through their views on the material world, on the human body, and on lust as a
consequence of original sin. It is seen that Trubar and Dalmatin accepted the
material world, as long as it serves its purpose: spreading God’s glory. But Skalar
and Kastelec rejected the material world – this finding is attributed to their
leaning towards mysticism. Trubar and Dalmatin also accepted the human body,
if it functions in accordance with its purpose, but Skalar and Kastelec rejected
it. However, views on the body cannot explain views on erotic love because erot-
ic love is a matter of the human soul and its deficiencies. All four writers reject-
ed the consequences of original sin, which include lust – if the individual fails
to limit lust within himself and in his environment, he (unforgivably) sins.
Consequently, erotic love, if it results from unlimited lust, is sinful and therefore
undesirable.
Keywords: erotic love, lust, sin, the human body, the material world, Luther-
anism, Catholicism, Slovene literature.
UDC 284.1(497.4):929Grmič V.
Cvetka Hedžet Tóth
Vekoslav Grmič on Protestantism
The article analyses the views of the Slovenian “red” bishop Vekoslav Grmič
on Slovenian Protestantism, with special emphasis on Trubar’s thought. Without
a shadow of doubt, one of the key merits of the Reformation in Slovenian lands
is its sharpened sense for freedom and human rights, for the equality before God
of all nations and individuals, and as such it is nation-forming in the best sense
of the word. The article places special emphasis on Grmič’s claim that Trubar
recognizes the greatest insight of contemporary theology in that dogmatic the-
ology is actually theological anthropology. The Slovenian character has also seen
itself transformed, and our first Protestant writers cannot be understood as
solely important literary-historical writers. Within the Slovenian context, the
conception of human personality, of man’s position in society, and the faith in
progress, historical optimism included, actually owe a great deal to Protestant-
ism. Undoubtedly, the Counter-Reformation managed to suppress the Protestant
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UDC 821.163.6:27
Luka Kelc
Some explanations of the attitude towards erotic love among Slovene
Lutherans and Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries
This paper attempts to explain repudiative views on erotic love in selected
works of Primož Trubar, Jurij Dalmatin, Adam Skalar and Matija Kastelec
through their views on the material world, on the human body, and on lust as a
consequence of original sin. It is seen that Trubar and Dalmatin accepted the
material world, as long as it serves its purpose: spreading God’s glory. But Skalar
and Kastelec rejected the material world – this finding is attributed to their
leaning towards mysticism. Trubar and Dalmatin also accepted the human body,
if it functions in accordance with its purpose, but Skalar and Kastelec rejected
it. However, views on the body cannot explain views on erotic love because erot-
ic love is a matter of the human soul and its deficiencies. All four writers reject-
ed the consequences of original sin, which include lust – if the individual fails
to limit lust within himself and in his environment, he (unforgivably) sins.
Consequently, erotic love, if it results from unlimited lust, is sinful and therefore
undesirable.
Keywords: erotic love, lust, sin, the human body, the material world, Luther-
anism, Catholicism, Slovene literature.
UDC 284.1(497.4):929Grmič V.
Cvetka Hedžet Tóth
Vekoslav Grmič on Protestantism
The article analyses the views of the Slovenian “red” bishop Vekoslav Grmič
on Slovenian Protestantism, with special emphasis on Trubar’s thought. Without
a shadow of doubt, one of the key merits of the Reformation in Slovenian lands
is its sharpened sense for freedom and human rights, for the equality before God
of all nations and individuals, and as such it is nation-forming in the best sense
of the word. The article places special emphasis on Grmič’s claim that Trubar
recognizes the greatest insight of contemporary theology in that dogmatic the-
ology is actually theological anthropology. The Slovenian character has also seen
itself transformed, and our first Protestant writers cannot be understood as
solely important literary-historical writers. Within the Slovenian context, the
conception of human personality, of man’s position in society, and the faith in
progress, historical optimism included, actually owe a great deal to Protestant-
ism. Undoubtedly, the Counter-Reformation managed to suppress the Protestant
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