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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
UDC 284.1:261.6:316.2
211:234:316
Marko Kerševan
Protestant Christianity and the sacred within the (post)modern world
The paper starts out from the supposition that Protestantism has con-
tributed significantly to forming the characteristics of the modern world,
including the so-called “disenchanting of the world”, i.e. its desacralisation, of
which Max Weber speaks. It is assumed that such disenchanting found its
theological expression in connection with D. Bonhoeffer’s conception of “non-
religious Christianity”. He defined this as: “The God who is with us is the God
who abandoned us. Before God and with Him, we live in a world without god.”
The Christian view of the human condition as presented by Bonhoeffer is
currently threatened from two sides: on the one hand there are different forms
of the new sacralisation – different forms of the “return of the holy”, and on
the other there is a crisis in biblical monotheism. The twentieth century
particularly aggravated the question of theodicy (Auschwitz, etc.). The orien-
tation towards a new “polytheism” and cosmotheism is gaining inf luence.
Protestant Christianity should resist such trends also by a fresh consideration
of the theological concepts of divine omnipotence and divine power(lessness)
and suffering, which derive from divine love and solidarity with the human
race (in Christ and through Christ). The theological problems of kenosis,
theopaschism, “the weak holy” (Vattimo) are becoming topical once again.
UDC 286"15"
286(494)(436)(431/435.8)(492)"15"
Gorazd Andrejč
Anabaptist reformation and religious freedom
The Anabaptist movement in 16th century Europe was part of the so-called
“radical reformation”, which was almost equally distant from mainline Prote-
stantism as it was from Roman Catholicism. This intensely-persecuted but
constantly-growing group of believers sprung up in the early phases of refor-
mation (in the 1520’s) in Switzerland and lower Germany. Their first leaders
felt that the main Swiss and German reformations (lead by Zwingli and Luther
respectively), did not go all the way in reforming the Christian churches
according to the Sola Scriptura principle. Therefore they organized a new
Christian movement that was destined to impact western society as much as
mainline Protestantism.
On the ground of the New Testament, Anabaptists believed in the baptism
of adult believers. You had to understand the faith and repent from your sins
306
UDC 284.1:261.6:316.2
211:234:316
Marko Kerševan
Protestant Christianity and the sacred within the (post)modern world
The paper starts out from the supposition that Protestantism has con-
tributed significantly to forming the characteristics of the modern world,
including the so-called “disenchanting of the world”, i.e. its desacralisation, of
which Max Weber speaks. It is assumed that such disenchanting found its
theological expression in connection with D. Bonhoeffer’s conception of “non-
religious Christianity”. He defined this as: “The God who is with us is the God
who abandoned us. Before God and with Him, we live in a world without god.”
The Christian view of the human condition as presented by Bonhoeffer is
currently threatened from two sides: on the one hand there are different forms
of the new sacralisation – different forms of the “return of the holy”, and on
the other there is a crisis in biblical monotheism. The twentieth century
particularly aggravated the question of theodicy (Auschwitz, etc.). The orien-
tation towards a new “polytheism” and cosmotheism is gaining inf luence.
Protestant Christianity should resist such trends also by a fresh consideration
of the theological concepts of divine omnipotence and divine power(lessness)
and suffering, which derive from divine love and solidarity with the human
race (in Christ and through Christ). The theological problems of kenosis,
theopaschism, “the weak holy” (Vattimo) are becoming topical once again.
UDC 286"15"
286(494)(436)(431/435.8)(492)"15"
Gorazd Andrejč
Anabaptist reformation and religious freedom
The Anabaptist movement in 16th century Europe was part of the so-called
“radical reformation”, which was almost equally distant from mainline Prote-
stantism as it was from Roman Catholicism. This intensely-persecuted but
constantly-growing group of believers sprung up in the early phases of refor-
mation (in the 1520’s) in Switzerland and lower Germany. Their first leaders
felt that the main Swiss and German reformations (lead by Zwingli and Luther
respectively), did not go all the way in reforming the Christian churches
according to the Sola Scriptura principle. Therefore they organized a new
Christian movement that was destined to impact western society as much as
mainline Protestantism.
On the ground of the New Testament, Anabaptists believed in the baptism
of adult believers. You had to understand the faith and repent from your sins
306
