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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
description of reality alternative to the Biblical picture of the world. On the Catholic side,
for a long time there was a metaphysical postulation of the cosmic/spatial existence of a
religious sky, and Catholic Baroque church architecture and painting continued to provide
for an illusionistic presentation of the religious sky/heaven up there above the Earth, clo-
uds and stars. On the Lutheran side, with Luther and others after him (Schleiermacher),
there was a dissociation of cosmic space and the religious sky, a desacralization of the
sky and a concept of divine omnipresence and divine activity as something non-spatial
(raumlos). In Euclidian geometrical space it was not possible to position special religious/
divine places. Thus in Protestant theology the category of time gained precedence over
the category of space (“God dwells within time”). The “farewell to cosmology” in official
church doctrine and theology opened the door in the religious imagination of believers to
popular esoteric notions of “the next world” and “higher” worlds. Forms of non-Euclidian
geometry present still new challenges and possibilities. But the task of theology is not to
develop again cosmologies to compete with scientific models of the universe. Instead of
constructing cosmological theories which would find space for God, the task of theology
is to develop the phenomenology of spaces in which God is experienced as present. Here
there is today a promising convergence concerning the confessional traditions that have
so far diverged, and the present “spatial turn” in culturology can also support it.
UDC 274:091(497.4Ljubljana)'1578-1596'
271/279
Barbara Žabota
When the dead speak – a Protestant register of deaths in the light of new research
The Ljubljana Protestant register (1578–1596) counts as the oldest register in the
continental area of present-day Slovenia. The book was given to the (Protestant) church
community on New Year’s Day 1578 by Marko Stettner (junior), a town councillor in
Ljubljana. The book is made up of several pergament sections differing in the number of
pages, and is bound in brown leather. At the time of its origin, it contained at least 324
folios and was divided into christening, wedding and funeral sections and a list of com-
municants. Only 57 folios (a good sixth of the entire book) are extant today, comprising
part of the list of communicants and part of the funerals section.
Despite this truncated condition, the extant part offers a considerable amount of data
about people who lived and worked mostly in Ljubljana in the second half of the 16th
century, about their family connections, professions, social status, etc., and is comparable
with extant Protestant registers in Graz and Klagenfurt.
Thanks to the genealogist Johann Gothard Lukančič (1665–1711) and his genealogies
of noble families, it is possible at least in some places to reconstruct the missing parts of this
Protestant register, since Lukančič took from the then entire book details about christenings,
weddings and funerals of individual members of noble families. The reliability of his excerpts
of funerals can be compared with the still preserved original entries in the burial register. Pre-
303
description of reality alternative to the Biblical picture of the world. On the Catholic side,
for a long time there was a metaphysical postulation of the cosmic/spatial existence of a
religious sky, and Catholic Baroque church architecture and painting continued to provide
for an illusionistic presentation of the religious sky/heaven up there above the Earth, clo-
uds and stars. On the Lutheran side, with Luther and others after him (Schleiermacher),
there was a dissociation of cosmic space and the religious sky, a desacralization of the
sky and a concept of divine omnipresence and divine activity as something non-spatial
(raumlos). In Euclidian geometrical space it was not possible to position special religious/
divine places. Thus in Protestant theology the category of time gained precedence over
the category of space (“God dwells within time”). The “farewell to cosmology” in official
church doctrine and theology opened the door in the religious imagination of believers to
popular esoteric notions of “the next world” and “higher” worlds. Forms of non-Euclidian
geometry present still new challenges and possibilities. But the task of theology is not to
develop again cosmologies to compete with scientific models of the universe. Instead of
constructing cosmological theories which would find space for God, the task of theology
is to develop the phenomenology of spaces in which God is experienced as present. Here
there is today a promising convergence concerning the confessional traditions that have
so far diverged, and the present “spatial turn” in culturology can also support it.
UDC 274:091(497.4Ljubljana)'1578-1596'
271/279
Barbara Žabota
When the dead speak – a Protestant register of deaths in the light of new research
The Ljubljana Protestant register (1578–1596) counts as the oldest register in the
continental area of present-day Slovenia. The book was given to the (Protestant) church
community on New Year’s Day 1578 by Marko Stettner (junior), a town councillor in
Ljubljana. The book is made up of several pergament sections differing in the number of
pages, and is bound in brown leather. At the time of its origin, it contained at least 324
folios and was divided into christening, wedding and funeral sections and a list of com-
municants. Only 57 folios (a good sixth of the entire book) are extant today, comprising
part of the list of communicants and part of the funerals section.
Despite this truncated condition, the extant part offers a considerable amount of data
about people who lived and worked mostly in Ljubljana in the second half of the 16th
century, about their family connections, professions, social status, etc., and is comparable
with extant Protestant registers in Graz and Klagenfurt.
Thanks to the genealogist Johann Gothard Lukančič (1665–1711) and his genealogies
of noble families, it is possible at least in some places to reconstruct the missing parts of this
Protestant register, since Lukančič took from the then entire book details about christenings,
weddings and funerals of individual members of noble families. The reliability of his excerpts
of funerals can be compared with the still preserved original entries in the burial register. Pre-
303
