OAR@UM Collection:/library/oar/handle/123456789/318172025-11-13T14:36:15Z2025-11-13T14:36:15ZTraduzione e tradizione. La via dell uso-confronto/library/oar/handle/123456789/318882018-07-19T01:31:07Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Traduzione e tradizione. La via dell uso-confronto
Abstract: Review of the book Traduzione e Tradizione. La Via dell Uso-Confronto by Carlo Buzzetti.2002-01-01T00:00:00ZWord order in the clauses of the narrative sections in P. P. Saydon's Bible translation in Maltese/library/oar/handle/123456789/318862018-07-19T01:31:13Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Word order in the clauses of the narrative sections in P. P. Saydon's Bible translation in Maltese
Abstract: General Aims: This study project was aimed at discovering a linguistic
explanation for a historical phenomenon: the failure of the Bible translation in
Maltese done by Rev Prof Peter Paul Saydon, to impose itself as the Bible of the
population of Malta at large even though it was hailed from the beginning as a
literary masterpiece.
Contents of Dissertation: This dissertation had three main parts or sections.
In the fIrst section we shall say all the reader needs to know about our research
project in order to understand our work: we shall identify the object of our study,
defIne the research proposal, and describe our method of work. Then comes the
central section which contains the data employed as empirical basis for the
generalisations to be made in the third and fInal section. The data will be preceded
by an introduction in which helps will be provided for the eventual reader of the
dissertation who does not know Maltese, so that he/she will be able to go through
the data without undue diffIculty. The linguistic discussion proper will be given in
the third section, to be followed by the conclusions.2002-01-01T00:00:00ZThe family as the domestic church/library/oar/handle/123456789/318852018-07-19T01:31:08Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The family as the domestic church
Abstract: By referring to the Christian family as the "domestic Church" in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and as "domestic sanctuary of the Church" in the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, Vatican II has retrieved the apostolic and patristic notion of the family as Domestic Church. It has thus caught up a most significant intuition existing in the Church from the beginning and further developed in subsequent theological reflection. The analogy has now become almost a commonplace, not only because of its simplicity as a label for the Christian family, but also and especially because of the rich meaning it contains and the practical suggestions it evokes.2002-01-01T00:00:00ZSaint Augustine's doctrine on grace (1)/library/oar/handle/123456789/318832020-06-04T08:55:25Z2002-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Saint Augustine's doctrine on grace (1)
Abstract: During the 4th and the 5th centuries three great controversies troubled the Church: the Trinitarian and Christological controversies in the East and the Pelagian controversy in the West. The first two were, so to say, theoretical, and were about the notions of nature and person as applied to the doctrine of faith, while Pelagianism was about the relation between nature and grace, about man's free will and the infallibility of grace. Man is a Pelagian at heart, defending his personality and his social and moral conquests, and we can notice this in pagan literature: the Greeks and the Romans were, in their way, religious people, but, for example, Cicero to defend man's free will denied God's foreknowledge. "No one", says Cicero, "has received virtue from God and so no one thanks God for being good" and Horace adds that from the gods we receive honours and riches but not help in the performance of our duties.
This was the problem which Augustine had to solve in his controversies with the Pelagians: how to reconcile God's foreknowledge with man's free will. It is a problem with no easy solution so much so that it has continued to be discussed
throughout the centuries to the present day. The unorthodox solution either denied free will to exalt grace, or denied grace to exalt free will, while truth lies in the veritatis medium as Augustine expresses himself. Stressing divine grace to the detriment of human free will we have Calvinism, Lutheranism and Iansenism; while at the other extreme we have Pelagianism, followed by Semi-Pelagianism, and their counterpart in the 19th century Protestant Liberalism and Modernism.2002-01-01T00:00:00Z