/library/oar/handle/123456789/333 Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:22:51 GMT 2025-11-16T12:22:51Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/137013 Title: Sinodalità al crocevia tra Europa e Mediterraneo Abstract: Nell’Arcidiocesi di Malta, il processo sinodale in corso non è semplicemente una riflessione sulle esperienze positive del sinodo diocesano celebrato tra il 1999 e il 2003. Esso rappresenta anche un’opportunità fondamentale per sostenere il cammino intrapreso dalla Chiesa nelle isole maltesi che risultano strategiche in virtù della loro posizione unica al crocevia tra Europa e Mediterraneo. È attualmente in atto, infatti, un processo di rinnovamento ecclesiale a scadenza quadriennale dal titolo: “Una Chiesa, Un Cammino 2020-2024.” Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/137013 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/137010 Title: Religion and growth in resilience : strategies to counter cognitive attacks Authors: Roszak, Piotr; Horvat, Sasa; Oviedo, Lluis; Berry, John Anthony Abstract: Stereotypes frequently associate religion with rigid beliefs, pathological behaviors, or a moral code that, according to critics, engenders guilt, limits personal freedom (Nietzsche), and alienates individuals from authentic lived experience (Marx and Freud). Historically, religion has often been reduced and explained through various perspectives across different disciplines, often leading to psychological, neurological, evolutionary, and socio-functional reductionism (Fischer, 2007). From this perspective, religiosity is construed as harmful as it purportedly detaches individuals from reality. Such views, rooted in 19th century critiques, are epitomized in Marx’s famous description of religion as “the opium of the people,” from his 1844 A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Pedersen, 2015). This assertion suggests that religion distorts reality through projections shaped by human needs. However, recent reflections on religion and its role in social life—often contrary to secularist predictions of its decline or extinction (Casanova, 2007; Riesebrodt, 2014)—have highlighted its resilience and the diverse benefits it offers. These benefits, while reflecting changes or redefinitions of religiosity itself, include significant contributions to individual well-being (Oviedo, 2023), mental health, and coping mechanisms. Religion has been associated with lower suicide rates, better mental health care, effective stress management, and even mitigation of the effects of illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease (Koenig, 1997; Riepenhausen et al., 2022). Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/137010 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135544 Title: Yves Congar : ecumenism and the changing face of Roman Catholicism Authors: Berry, John Anthony Abstract: The Catholic Church has not seen change as powerfully or as permanently as through ecumenical dialogue. Upon her entry into the field of the ecumenical movement in the middle of the twentieth century, the official view of the Catholic Church towards ecumenical dialogue soon improved. This becomes clearly manifest in Vatican II's decision to adopt and follow the ecumenical approach. This Council is considered as a watershed not just for the Catholic Church, but for the ecumenical movement itself, since without the involvement of the Catholic Church, ecumenism is necessarily limited. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/135544 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135543 Title: Hans Urs von Balthasar u l-kobor tal-imħabba ta’ Alla Authors: Berry, John Anthony Abstract: Id-deskrizzjoni dwar Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) mill-kollega ħabib Ġiżwita Henri de Lubac tibqa’ tidwi maż-żmien li hu l-aktar raġel ikkoltivat ta’ żmienhom. Bla dubju t-teologu Żvizzeru hu wieħed mill-aqwa teoloġi tas-seklu għoxrin kif ukoll fl-istorja sħiħa tal-Knisja. Sikwit jitqabbel ma’ ġganti fit-teoloġija bħal Santu Wistin u San Tumas t’Akwinu. Fih insibu parodoss qawwi għax filwaqt li kiteb teoloġija profonda f’ammont kbir ta’ kotba, fil-verità qatt ma għallem f’università waħda. M’hemmx dubju però li kien ħabib kbir tal-kotba. Diffiċli tikklassifika ’l Balthasar. It-teoloġija hi l-qofol ta’ ħajtu, iżda l-letteratura u l-mużika jibqgħu l-interessi prinċipali tiegħu. Il-Papa San Ġwanni Pawlu II ħatru Kardinal, iżda miet jumejn wara n-nomina. Jibqa’ mfakkar għas-serje ta’ sittax-il volum maqsuma fi tlieta: Il-Glorja tal-Mulej: Estetika teologika (1961); Teo-drama: Teorija teoloġika u drammatika (1973); u Teo-loġika: Il-verità tad-dinja (1985). Dan il-qafas ipoġġi lil Balthasar fi djalogu ma’ filosfi prominenti fosthom Immanuel Kant, Georg W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietszsche u ħassieba oħra. Balthasar jibqa’ magħruf bħala difensur tat-tradizzjoni u l-kultura kattolika, filwaqt li l-akbar kollega qrib tiegħu kien il-Protestant Karl Barth. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/135543 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z