A possibility of religious experience in the life of a contemporary person according to theology of Franc Rode

Trontelj, Nik (author)

The article presents Franc Rode’s teaching on the possibility of religious experience in the life of a contemporary person as he discussed it in his textbook for fundamental theology “Osnovno bogoslovje” (1979). Rode was a lecturer of fundamental theology at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana between 1967 and 1981, i.e. in a time when Slovenia was a part of a highly secularized SFR Yugoslavia, which was founded on atheist Marxism. In his discussion, Rode presents existential and philosophical reasons for experiencing God as the absolute meaning of life and the final aim of the world. He shows the individual’s intuitive need for transcendent in a modern society, based on a technological development that demystified the natural world and on the political vision of a laicized state.

• Language: English
• Keywords: religiosity, faith, fundamental theology, socialism, secularization, secularism, Christianity, Yugoslavia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 327-338
• Numbering: Letn. 83, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164179
• UDC: 27-1-58Rode F.
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2023/02/Trontelj
• COBISS.SI-ID: 174654211
• Publication date in RUL: 17.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik = Theological quarterly : Glasilo Teološke fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Univerza v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Možnost verske izkušnje v življenju sodobnega človeka v teološkem nauku Franca Rodeta

Abstract

Prispevek predstavlja nauk Franca Rodeta o možnosti verske izkušnje v življenju sodobnega človeka, kot ga podaja v svojem učbeniku za osnovno bogoslovje z naslovom Osnovno bogoslovje (1979). Rode je bil predavatelj osnovnega bogoslovja na Teološki fakulteti v Ljubljani v letih 1967–1981, tj. v času, ko je bila Slovenija del močno sekularizirane FLRJ Jugoslavije, osnovane na ateističnem marksizmu. Rode v svoji razpravi predstavlja bivanjske in filozofske razloge za izkušnjo Boga kot absolutnega smisla življenja in končnega cilja sveta. Izpostavlja tudi posameznikovo intuitivno potrebo po presežnem v sodobni družbi, temelječi na tehnološkem razvoju, ki je demistificiral naravni svet, in politični viziji laične države.

• Keywords: religioznost, vera, osnovno bogoslovje, socializem, sekularizacija, sekularizem, krščanstvo, Jugoslavija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0269
• Name: Religija, etika, edukacija in izzivi sodobne družbe