Tomislav IvanÄić
Tomislav Ivancic ( born November 30, 1938 in Prior, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Croatian Roman Catholic theologian.
Life
Ivancic studied philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1966. After obtaining the doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he. According to his habilitation thesis on "The Revelation as a mutual relationship A contribution to the theology of revelation "(1975) professor of fundamental theology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Catholic Theology was.
From 1998 to 2001 Ivancic was Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology. Since 1998 he is also Director of the Institute of Fundamental Theology. Since 2004 he is member of the International Theological Commission of the Vatican.
Ivancic is the founder of " hagiotherapy " and in 1990 founded the "Center for Spiritual Help " in Zagreb.
Community " Prayer and Word " and the " hagiotherapy "
Tomislav Ivancic is considered the founder of the so-called " hagiotherapy " (Greek: " Hagios " saints " Therapeia " Healing), one especially in the context of which he founded Community MiR ( moltiva irijec in Austria " Prayer and Word " ) applied pastoral care concept, which in the area of " therapeutic pastoral care " is classified. The Community MiR is a Catholic organization of lay people whose goals are the spiritual assistance for people in conflict and crisis situations as well as evangelism. Theologically, it is in the context of the Catholic charismatic movement of evangelization.
Methods
Basis hagiotherapy was the effort to heal spiritual and moral suffering. It sees itself as a philosophical and theological theory and practice model on the basis of a trinity of body, mind and spirit. Ivancic sees the spiritual a critical level, as many causative faults in this area would ultimately manifest as a symptom in body and soul. He therefore speaks of " symptomatic spiritual diseases " such as remorse, anxiety and traumatic conditions that manifest themselves as wounds of body and psyche.
Ivancic developed training programs with which so-called "spiritual " trauma such as anxiety, depression, meaninglessness, aggressiveness, etc. are to be healed. These are carried out in so-called centers of spiritual support to those at the Instructors have received a special theological training. It assumes that any disease, physical or mental nature often has a spiritual dimension and that the healing of the human mind is key to healing the whole person zukomme. Mental Health manifests itself in his opinion, to a negatively connoted by him aggressiveness. In the so-called Eirene therapy it related to the goal of reconciliation and relief from all aggression.
Including the clergy in his opinion the greatest chance of recovery would be achieved, as it "is not only the forces of the human mind makes use, but also the powers of the mind of God" itself. The man would with his mind touching the transcendence and " outlived itself, even if he loses his life ." To reach this state is with the help of grace, specifically through prayer, sacraments, penance and preaching of the Church.
Criticism
After theologians Harald Baer hagiotherapy, to a great proximity to the charismatic movement. Your professions in the healing powers of faith, to be " incompatible with the thinking Bisers and Beinerts as a semantic similarity are facing serious theological differences. " Bonds they make while in the methods of logotherapy, represent " but to claim a greater range and efficiency insofar as logotherapy is limited to the area of the inner-worldly and finite. " Ivancic am attempting to "make almost all the major authors of the Western history have their say ," would find it but " no discussion of the theses, no weighing of arguments, no work out the convergences and divergences " instead. In citations of Bible verses, seeking " to no avail exegetical comments, not to mention current references throughout ."
The theologian and physician Walter Schaupp criticized that hagiotherapy succumb to the temptation to " transfer the logic of classical therapeutics in the wrong way on the spiritual level." In addition, would be reflected in their theological overtook thoughts of guilt and atonement, as that could " manifest moral guilt of grandparents in physical diseases grandson ", and must be treated accordingly, " spiritual."
The theologian Winfried Müller called on religio.de the " use medical vocabulary " in " pastoral [n ] interaction [ s ] " because " a subsequent confusion " as problematic. It was " to warn to use this vocabulary for theological interaction ". Ivancic would leave " the terrain for serious scholarly work " and open " an amateur Patchwork Medicine door and side door ."