Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing ... Studies in East and Central Europe

Leslie Waters  author

University of Rochester Press

The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory changed hands in 1938 and again in 1945. During the intervening period and beyond, residents of the borderland were caught in a nearly continuous onslaught of ethnic cleansing - expulsion of Czech and Slovak colonists, Jewish deportations during the Holocaust, and postwar population exchanges - that was meant to reshape the territory first in the desired image of the Hungarian state and later on in that of Czechoslovakia.

Borders on the Move examines the impact of border changes and migrations on this region between 1938 and 1948. It investigates the everyday consequences of geopolitical events that are well-known from the perspective of international and national histories, but does so explicitly in the context of the borderland. Making skillful use of state and local archival sources in Hungary and Slovakia, author Leslie Waters illuminates the catastrophic effects of state action - including sweeping wealth redistribution and the expulsion of those perceived as enemies of the state - on individuals. This engagingly written and far-reaching work will be invaluable to scholars of the Holocaust and of East Central Europe as well as to those who study forced migration, population exchange, and inter-ethnic relations.

LESLIE WATERS is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/1648250017/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Avenir solaire et angélique des justes : le psaume 19 (18) commenté par Clément d'Alexandrie

Michel Cambe Auteur

Editeur Centre d'analyse et de documentation patristiques

Collection Cahiers de Biblia Patristica, n° 10

Quatrième de couverture : Le Psaume 19 (18) occupe une place particulière dans la réflexion de Clément d'Alexandrie, qui lui a consacré un commentaire suivi, conservé sous une forme abrégée dans les Églogues prophétiques (51-63). Son exégèse évoque les acteurs célestes de la louange de Dieu et médite sur la mystérieuse tente solaire comme habitation suprême des anges et des justes humains. Au terme de la lecture de ce commentaire, dans lequel les anges jouent un rôle déterminant, on se demande si Clément ne prône pas l'existence d'une Église angélique, doublant ou éclipsant l'Église chrétienne. Ce commentaire est ici traduit pour la première fois en français et analysé dans le détail. Une attention particulière est accordée aux sources de la théologie angélique de Clément d'Alexandrie et aux traces laissées par l'abréviateur, ce qui jette une lumière nouvelle sur l'histoire des Églogues prophétiques dans leur ensemble.

Dokumente wachsender Übereinstimmung, Band 4 2001-2010

Sämtliche Berichte und Konsenstexte interkonfessioneller Gespräche

Bonifatius Verlag

Herausgegeben von Johannes Oeldemann , Friederike Nüssel , Uwe Swarat, Athanasios Vletsis

Die „Dokumente wachsender Übereinstimmung“ haben sich seit dem Erscheinen des ersten Bandes 1983 zu einem Standardwerk der Ökumene entwickelt. Die Bände dokumentieren die Ergebnisse aller ökume-nischen Dialoge auf Weltebene. Die Vollständigkeit der publizierten Dokumente verschafft einen einzigar-tigen Überblick über zentrale Themen des ökumenischen Gesprächs. – Der vierte Band enthält sämtliche in den Jahren 2001–2010 publizierten Berichte und Konsenstexte zwischenkirchlicher Gespräche, die zum Teil erstmals in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht werden. Den Hauptteil bilden die Abschlussberichte bilateraler Dialogkommissionen zwischen den verschiedenen Konfessionsfamilien, in denen wesentliche Ergebnisse des ökumenischen Dialogs der vergangenen Jahrzehnte gebündelt und inhaltlich weitergeführt werden. Darüber hinaus enthält der Band auch Erklärungen, die auf Kirchen leitender Ebene verabschie-det wurden, sowie Studien, die von der Gemeinsamen Arbeitsgruppe zwischen dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen und der römisch-katholischen Kirche in Auftrag gegeben wurden. – Lehrende und Studieren-de der Theologie sowie alle, die sich für die Ökumene interessieren oder in diesem Bereich tätig sind, kön-nen sich anhand der Texte und mit Hilfe des ausführlichen Sachregisters über den aktuellen Stand des ökumenischen Dialogs in vielen Bereichen informieren.

Fragmenty Veda a Zivot.

Jubilejná kniha pri sedemdesiatinách kňaza prof. ThDr. Vojtecha Boháča, PhD. Prešov 

Prešovská univerzita v Prešove vo Vydavateľstve PU, 2020, 476 s. 

https://www.unipo.sk/greckokatolicka-teologicka-fakulta/edicna-cinnost/2020/

Popes, Bishops, and the Progress of Canon Law, c.1120–1234

A. J. Duggan author

Brepols 

This book considers the role of popes and bishops in the development of the law of the Church between 1120 and 1234. Although historians have traditionally seen the popes as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the primary argument of this book is that the functioning of the process of consultation and appeal reveals a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia.

Bishops have always played a central role in the making and enforcement of the law of the Church, and none more so than the bishop of Rome. From convening and presiding over church councils to applying canon law in church courts, popes and bishops have exercised a decisive influence on the history of that law.

This book, a selection of Anne J. Duggan’s most significant studies on the history of canon law, highlights the interactive role of popes and bishops, and other prelates, in the development of ecclesiastical law and practice between 1120 and 1234. This emphasis directly challenges the pervasive influence of the concept of ‘papal monarchy’, in which popes, and not diocesan bishops and their legal advisers, have been seen as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Latin Church in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Contrary to the argument that the emergence of the papacy as the primary judicial and legislative authority in the Latin Church was the result of a deliberate programme of papal aggrandizement, the principal argument of this book is that the processes of consultation and appeal reveal a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia, in which the ‘papal machine’ evolved to meet the demand.

The Anthropology of St Gregory Palamas

The Image of God, the Spiritual Senses, and the Human Body

A. Chouliaras author

Brepols 

How are we to regard our body? As a prison, an enemy, or, maybe, an ally? Is it something bad that needs to be humiliated and extinguished, or should one see it as a huge blessing, that deserves attention and care? Is the body an impediment to human experience of God? Or, rather, does the body have a crucial role in this very experience?　Alexandros Chouliaras’ book The Anthropology of St Gregory Palamas: the Image of God, the Spiritual Senses, and the Human Body argues that the fourteenth-century monk, theologian, and bishop Gregory Palamas has interesting and persuasive answers to offer to all these questions, and that his anthropology has a great deal to offer to Christian life and theology today.

Amongst this book’s contributions are these: for Palamas, the human is superior to the angels concerning the image of God for specific reasons, all linked to his corporeality. Secondly, the spiritual senses refer not only to the soul, but also to the body. However, in Paradise the body will be absorbed by the spirit, and acquire a totally spiritual aspect. But this does not at all entail a devaluing of the body. On the contrary, St Gregory ascribes a high value to the human body. Finally, central to Palamas’ theology is a strong emphasis on the human potentiality for union with God, theosis: that is, the passage from　image to likeness. And herein lies, perhaps, his most important gift to the anthropological concerns of our epoch.

Alexandros Chouliaras, post-doctoral researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Theology, holds a PhD in Theology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Religion and Theology, under the direction of Professors Andrew Louth and John Behr. Some of his texts have been presented in international theological conferences and published in peer-reviewed academic journals. He serves as a parish priest in Athens, Greece (Metropolis of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki), where he lives with his wife and their four children.

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