The article presents the importance of dialogue in the pedagogical process of theological studies in Slovenia over the past hundred years and also it extends into what manner theological lecturers have been »educators for dialogue«. The author focuses on three periods of the Faculty of Theology: from its foundation to the Second Vatican Council of the Church, from the last council to its reintegration into the University, and lastly the present time, marked by the adoption of the Bologna reform. The article highlights the most prominent professors of the Chair of Fundamental Theology and Dialogue, who aimed to educate students by word and action to respect and cooperate with other Christian Churches and with representatives of non-Christian religions and with non-believers. The author mentions the documents on the basis of which the focus on dialogue became more and more the obligatory substance in the lecture rooms of the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana and Maribor.
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