APVV
Grant APVV-23-0509: A Paradigmatic Shift in the Understanding of War and Armed Conflicts from Theological-Historical and Legal Perspective (2024-2028)
Solution period: July 2024 – June 2028.
Interdisciplinary project of Faculty of Theology at CU (12 researchers) and Law Faculty at CU (3 researchers).
Main researcher and project leader: Assoc. prof. ThDr. Ing. Jozef Jančovič, PhD.
Responsible researcher for Law Faculty: JUDr. Lukáš Mareček, PhD.
Finances allocated 180.000 Eur
Project's website: frcth.uniba.sk/apvv-23-0509
The problem of war is vast in its historical breadth and controversial in its nature. The project's research focus is on the paradigmatic shift in the perception of war and armed conflict. This change directly affects modern international legal sources and the magisterium of contemporary popes, which in turn redirects theological studies on war. The given focus of the project converges with a just war tradition rooted in moral and legal realism and with a history of over 1500 years, which has evolved into what today would be called a legitimate defence theory.
The main aim of the project is both to clarify, identify and describe aspects of the paradigmatic change in the perception of war in the sources of theological and legal scholarship in order to gain a synthetic knowledge of the paradigm shift and to define the correlation of value judgments about war and armed conflict in both disciplines, where quite often theological-moral and legal principles intersect. The research will be developed against the background of an interdisciplinary intersection in which the historical significance of the paradigm shift in the perception of war and the current contribution to the promotion of international and domestic academic debate on war will be assessed, with consideration also of the ripple effect of this shift into the lay environment. Selected theological and legal sources will be examined for the purpose of clarifying and updating objective theological and legal principles for minimizing to eliminating wars with an emphasis on building a just peace.
Methodologically, the research will be carried out by analysing, interpreting and comparing texts and ideological sources on war and by using each of the disciplines' respective tools. The specific aim of the project is the development of more effective evaluative theological-legal principles in the assessment of modern forms of warfare and to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in schools and academic military environment.
Cooperation on Projects of Other Institutions
APVV-22-0204 Religiosity and Sustainability Values (2023-2027)
Project of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Faculty of Arts.
Main researcher: Assoc. prof. PhDr. PaedDr. Peter Kondrla, PhD.
Researcher: prof. ThDr. Viliam Judák, PhD.
APVV-20-0130 The biblical text and its terminological discourses in modern written language. On the example of the Letters of Paul (2021-2025)
Project of the Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistic Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Main researcher: prof. Róbert Lapko, Th.D et PhD.
Researcher: doc. ThDr. Ing. Jozef Jančovič, PhD.
The aim of the project is a new translation of the seven authentic letters of the Apostle Paul from the original language into modern written Slovak with liturgical use. The translation will be accompanied by a brief introduction and critical commentary.
APVV 18-0103 Paradigm shifts in viewing the universe and humans from philosophical, theological and physical perspectives (2019-2023)
Project of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in cooperation with four faculties of Comenius University.
Main researcher: prof. Zlatica Plašienková
Researchers: prof. Marián Šuráb; assoc. prof. Jozef Jančovič, assoc. prof. Michal Vívoda, Mgr. Gašpar Fronc.
The project aims to provide a comprehensive view of the evolution of the universe and man's place in it against the background of an interdisciplinary intersection of philosophical, theological and physical perspectives. The solution of the research objective is based on the delineation of basic paradigmatic changes: from cosmogony to cosmology; from point to space-time; from biological to cultural; from human to transhuman; from offline being to online being; from creator God to "playing God". The exploration escapes into a synthesis of knowledge about the levels of layers of knowledge with a certain degree of autonomy and creativity.
Further information on the project and outputs is provided on website APVV projekt # 18-0103.
APVV 17-0001 Comments on Book of Psalms II and III (-2022)
The project was carried out at TF TU in Bratislava and was completed in 2022.
Main researcher: prof. ThLic. Miloš Lichner D.Th.
Researchers: assoc. prof. ThDr. Inf. Jozef Jančovič, PhD., ThDr. Milan Sova, PhD., assoc. prof. SSDr. Blažej Štrba, PhD.
The aim of the project was to create an original Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (an expert translation of the biblical books from the original texts with expert interpretation and catechetical-pastoral interpretation), namely on Psalms 1-50 and 101-150, which is the work of Slovak biblical scholars, linguists, patristic scholars and theologians (the commentaries have so far been published in three volumes, Psalms 101-118, Psalm 119; Psalms 120-150 in the publishing house Trnava: Good Book of the Year 2019 and 2020).
APVV-16-0514 Terminological Discourses and Specifics of Biblical Languages in Relation to Bible Translations into Slovak (2017-2021)
Project of the Slavistic Cabinet of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Main researcher: prof. Róbert Lapko.
Researcher: ThDr. Ing. Jozef Jančovič, PhD.
The project aims at a new translation of the two Gospels and the creation of a methodological platform for the translation of other books. Specifically, the translation of the Gospel according to Luke and the Gospel according to John from the original language into modern written Slovak with liturgical use.