Communicating Biblical Ideas: A Course Designed To Teach Laypersons To Study The Bible And Effectively Communicate Its Main Ideas

Emma Andievska’s Philosophical Tales and Fables by Hryhorii Skovoroda: Textual Dialogs

Академічний журнал Слово і Час ◽

10.33608/0236-1477.2019.10.14-21 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 14-21

Author(s):

Yuliia Hryhorchuk

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Human Life ◽

Extensive System ◽

The Bible ◽

Symbolic Understanding ◽

Main Ideas ◽

Good And Evil ◽

Form Of Expression

The paper compares Hryhorii Skovoroda’s fables and Emma Andiievska’s tales. These works proved to be thematically and stylistically related. They reﬂ ect the dominant literary features of both authors, such as philosophical, didactic, symbolic, and aphoristic accents. The analysis is focused on the collections “Fables of Kharkіv” and “Tales” (30 and 18 texts respectively). The researcher explores the similarity of the works within their plots, ideas, and stylistics. Both fables and fairy tales show dialectical understanding of the antagonism hidden in the visible and invisible facets of the human life and world. Friendship, creativity, and courage of being oneself are common topics for these texts, where they are interpreted in the light of cordocentric philosophy and by means of the allegorical language of symbols. Despite the similarity of motives, the works by Emma Andiievskа keep considerable originality in content. She elaborates the themes of good and evil, faith, hope, and freedom, while Hryhorii Skovoroda is focused on the symbolic understanding of the Bible. The similar features urge to relate the writers’ texts at the stylistic level as well. A dialogue, a parable, a moral conclusion are inherent both in the fables and fairy tales. In addition, the works may be related due to the form of expression, the allegories, the symbolic imagery, and common prototext. The fairy tales by Andiievska, like the fables by Skovoroda, are rooted both in the folklore and the Bible. However, while the fairy tales reveal the prototext mainly through the interpretation of the plots, in the fables it is reﬂected at the lexical level. The compared works also have an extensive system of aphorisms (the folk and the authors’ ones), which reﬂect their main ideas.

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“Oh, if only I could create a majestic, positive, holy figure!” (On Peculiarities of Sacralization of Gogol’s and Dostoyevsky’s works from Their Late Periods of Writing)

Академічний журнал Слово і Час ◽

10.33608/0236-1477.2019.01.25-37 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 25-37

Author(s):

Nataliya Skvira

Keyword(s):

Original Source ◽

The Core ◽

The Bible ◽

The Brothers Karamazov ◽

Dead Souls ◽

Brothers Karamazov ◽

Core Idea ◽

Main Ideas ◽

Spiritual Movement ◽

The Village

The paper deals with Gogol’s “Dead Souls” and Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”. The author investigates main ideas, motives, plot coincidences, which are core for the works. The word of the Holy Scripture clearly permeates the language of the works by Gogol and Dostoyevsky, forming the stylistic direction of the narrative with its inherent didacticism and emphasizing the credibility of the original Source. The aim of the Bible intertext is to sacralize the whole of the text. The writers’ techniques of retrospection enhance the reader’s attention and actualize pivotal biblical formulas. The researcher states that some episodes of “The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants” by Dostoyevsky cover the ideas of “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends” by Gogol, and also extend the content components of the statements articulated by the heroes’ of the second volume of “Dead Souls”. The chapter of “The Brothers Karamazov” called “Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima” by its style, didactic pathos, plot, motive combinations and the names of the sub-chapters reminds “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends”. Gogol’s phrase “Love us black, anyone can love us white” repeatedly echoes in the replicas of the characters of “The Brothers Karamazov” and becomes universalized to the formula: “Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation… If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things… And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love”. The image of Troyka (Carriage-and-Three) makes the image of Russia in the studied works by Gogol and Dostoevsky more profound, accumulating the core idea of the writers – the revival of society. ‘Gesture situations’ allow the writers to describe a psychological image of the characters in detail and to relate their spiritual movement with a millenary dimension of existence.

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Ślady twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego we wczesnych dramatach Karola Wojtyły (Hiob, Jeremiasz)

Roczniki Humanistyczne ◽

10.18290/rh.2068s-12 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (1 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽

pp. 173-186

Author(s):

Agnieszka Jarosz

Keyword(s):

Literary Work ◽

Time And Space ◽

The Bible ◽

The Creation ◽

Main Ideas

The article concerns two juvenilia plays by Karol Wojtyła, Job and Jeremiah, that were written in 1940. Those works were influenced by the difficult reality of war. The first and primary inspiration for those two dramas was the Bible, as the titles themselves indicate. However, the model of Polish Romanticism also heavily influenced the shape of the poetic world of those works. This article attempts to indicate in Job, as well as in Jeremiah, those thoughts that are close to the Romantic and Messianic historiosophies. It describes, in a synthetic manner, the main noticeable points from Wojtyła’s works that coincide with the motives present in Juliusz Słowacki’s work, especially in the play Father Marek, which started the mystical and genesian period of the Romantic’s literary work. Attention is paid to, e.g. the genre characteristics of the mystery (which is close to the genre form of the late Baroque mystery, as represented by the works of Calderon). Among those features the following items are mentioned: the composition of the works, the structure of time and space, the creation of images, the rule of the “theatre in the theatre,” and visionariness. In addition, a presentation of the main ideas and creation of the title characters (Job, Jeremiah and Father Marek) is also given in outline.

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The Relationship Between the People of the Book and Muslims in the Bible and the Holy Quran

Al-Idah | Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of Peshawar ◽

10.37556/al-idah.039.01.0710 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (- 1) ◽

Author(s):

Emad El-Din abdallah El- Shanti

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

The Bible ◽

The People ◽

Holy Quran ◽

The Holy Quran ◽

Main Ideas ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The research discusses an important issue of real life, namely the relationship between the people of the Book and Muslims. Since the people of the Book represent an important segment in our contemporary real life, it becomes necessary to identify texts of the two books (Qur'an - Bible) regarding the relationship with each other. This shall enable the reader to understand the teachings of these books and the relationship that each book commands. The title of the research (the relationship between the people of the Book and Muslims in the Bible, the Holy Quran and the Holy Year) has two main ideas: the relationship of the people of the Book to Muslims in the light of the texts of the Bible and the relationship of the people of the Book to Muslims in the light of the texts of the Holy Quran and Sunnah.

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