https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/898 2026-04-19T22:44:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3724 Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Performance of Resilience in The Face of Inner Conflict Noble, Timothy This article focuses on the "terrible sonnets" of the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). It shows how these poems offer an insight into a particular form of agonistics. Hopkins struggles with his understanding of self, of God, and of language, transforming experience into a fundamental clash of hegemonic visions of the world. Through resilience, there is not reconciliation but a re-visioning (therefore remediatising) of the possibility of human existence, which finds its home in language. Hopkins thus works between sound and sight and places a spiritual dimension into the political conversation about the task of being human. This challenge to any reductive approach is also, the article argues, an expression of resilience. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3524 Hermeneutika v sociální práci: interakce světů klienta a sociálního pracovníka Širka, Zdenko V  tomto příspěvku se zabýváme souvislostmi mezi praxí sociální práce a  hermeneutikou a zkoumáme, jak hermeneutika, věda o porozumění, zapadá do sociální práce, a to jak do teorie, tak do praxe. Cílem je přispět k dialogu a uchopit tento hermeneutický potenciál sociální práce. Jsou představeni hlavní zástupci hermeneutiky (Wilhem Dilthey, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer) a související hermeneutické koncepty užitečné pro sociální práci: horizont člověka, hermeneutický kruh, dějinná zakotvenost, předporozumění a rozhovor. Je poukázáno na to, jak bylo spojení tematizováno doposud (konstruktivistický a reflexivní přístup), a vysvětleno, proč je toto spojení důležité. V článku je zdůrazněn především interperso-nální charakter sociální práce, s důrazem na svět klienta a svět sociálního pracovníka.; In this paper, we explore the connections between social work practice and hermeneutics and examine how hermeneutics, the science of understanding, fits into social work, both in theory and practice. The aim is to contribute to the dialogue and to grasp this hermeneutic potential of social work. The main representatives of hermeneutics (Wilhem Dilthey, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hans-Georg Gadamer) and related hermeneutic concepts useful for social work are introduced: the human horizon, the hermeneutic circle, historical embeddedness, pre-understanding and conversation. How the connection has been thematized so far (constructivist and reflexive approaches) is pointed out and why this connection is important is explained. In particular, the interpersonal nature of social work is emphasized, with a focus on the world of the client and the world of the social worker. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3523 Ecumenism, Religion and Human Freedom in the Orthodox Context: Slovak Lutherans in Vojvodina Širka, Zdenko This text focuses on the Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, the largest Protestant church in Serbia, which functions as both a religious and ethnic minority within a predominantly Orthodox environment. It highlights the wide network of relations and interactions surrounding this church, emphasizing that the church cannot be understood in isolation from them. The analysis approaches the church's context on both micro and macro levels. On the micro level, it offers theological reflections on practices and rituals within the church, including diaconia and social work, interconfessional marriages, religious education, and ecumenical cooperation. On the macro level, it examines the church's legal position and the laws regulating religious communities, the ecumenical orientation within Orthodoxy, and the ecumenical dialogues of the Serbian Orthodox Church. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14178/3167 Abraham: The Utopia of Migration, Resilience, and the Search for Liberation Noble, Timothy This article examines the story of Abraham as an account of a resilient migrant in search of freedom. It begins by looking at the reality of especially internal migration in contemporary Brazil, with the challenges that presents and the need for resilience that is a part of it. It argues that there is always a utopic dimension to migration, a move to a place that it is hoped will be in some way better, but also a journey to somewhere that does not ever quite exist in the way the migrant desires. It then describes the search for liberation as a search for freedom from restraint, but also for freedom for a new way of life. With this in mind, the article re-reads the story of Abraham, a migrant facing the difficulties and upheavals that most migrants experience, meeting some of them well and failing in other instances. The article concludes with an analysis of Franz Hinkelammert's reading of Abraham and Isaac, seeing Abraham's final discovery of freedom in the fact that he does not kill his son. The resilience of the migrant is seen in the way in which Abraham overcomes all the temptations set before him to become eventually a blessing for all nations. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z