Roman Globokar

University of Ljubljana · Faculty of Theology

The book 'Educational School Challenges in the Digital Age' was published in April 2019 in the Slovenian language. The content offers a holistic and thorough view of the impact of digital technology on the development of children and young people. It values the influence of new technologies and countless possibilities and their use in the educatio...

This article presents guiding values for today’s education in a systematic manner. The first part outlines the social context with challenges related to education, such as digitalisation, globalisation, consumerism, pluralism, individualism, nihilism, etc. The radical changes in society require redefining the mission of the school to prepare the yo...

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was a fascinating person, a multivalent icon, mostly known as a doctor in the primeval forest of Africa. There he elaborated the ethics of boundless responsibility towards all living beings as a treatment for the restoration of a decadent civilization. Until his death, Schweitzer was struggling to elaborate a worldview...

Rush development in the field of regenerative medicine opens new opportunities for fulfilling personal wishes and life's plans. There is also a possibility for women to freeze their egg cells and decide for pregnancy later in life. In addition to medical reasons for such a decision, some also advocate the justification of social reasons (career opt...

Digital media is radically changing the way people communicate and influencing the thought processes and experiences of children and adults. New technologies pose a challenge to the educational process. The paper presents the results of the latest research on the impact of digital technology on the emotional, social, and moral development of childr...

Good academic practice is more than the avoidance of clear-cut cheating. It also involves navigation of the gray zones between cheating and good practice. The existing literature has left students’ understanding of gray zone practices largely unexplored. To begin filling in this gap, we present results from a questionnaire study involving N = 1639...

The regulation of surrogacy varies between different countries. There is a trend towards greater liberalization on the global level. Ethical evaluation creates a basic dilemma: Is surrogacy a superior form of solidarity between people or the instrumentalization of a woman’s body, being contrary to the fundamental dignity of every human person? How...

Plagiarism and other transgressions of the norms of academic integrity appear to be a persistent problem among upper secondary students. Numerous surveys have revealed high levels of infringement of what appear to be clearly stated rules. Less attention has been given to students’ understanding of academic integrity, and to the potential misconcept...

In the past, religions have significantly conditioned moral standards in different societies. In a modern global society, we are witnessing a strong intertwining of different religions and worldviews, which is the reason why local communities are becoming increasingly multireligious and multicultural. Many global challenges, such as ecological cris...

Community aspects of the celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation The sacrament of reconciliation faced a crisis in the past decades. Many Catholics refuse clerical control of their own conscience, experience the sacrament as formal and legal, and cope with the difficulty in thinking about guilt and sin at all. The article argues for the rene...

Članek najprej predstavi pomembno vlogo telogov pri ustanavljanju Univerze v Ljubljani leta 1919. Večji del članka pa je posvečen vprašanju naroda v delih profesorjev Teološke fakultete pred drugo svetovno vojno in po njej, s posebnim poudarkom na čas osamosvajanja Slovenije.

Demokratyczna konstytucja Republiki Słowenii określa ścisły rozdział Kościoła i państwa. Po uzyskaniu przez Słowenię niepodległości w 1991 r. można zaobserwować silny proces sekularyzacji. Liczba ludzi, którzy deklarują swój katolicyzm, spadła drastycznie w ostatnich dwóch dekadach. W pierwszym punkcie niniejszego tekstu autor analizuje niektóre pr...

Človek od nekdaj teži k izpopolnjevanju svojih naravnih danosti. Sodobna biotehnologija omogoča spreminjanje genske zasnove človeka, s tem pa dobi namera po izboljševanju človeka povsem novo razsežnost. V razpravi skušamo odgovoriti na vprašanje, koliko lahko danes še govorimo o normativnosti človeške narave in predvsem kakšen status ima človeška b...

The Judeo-Christian tradition is under criticism that the Creator's command to man on the first pages of the Bible- to subjugate the Earth and rule over it - is the foundation for the exploitative stance of man towards Creation. An in-depth analysis of the first chapters of the Genesis in the context of the whole biblical message, however, gives ma...

The Judeo-Christian tradition is blamed as the main culprit in man's exploitative stance toward the natural environment because of the Creator's command to man that he must subjugate the Earth and have dominion over it (Gen 1:28). This thesis was advanced in 1967 by Lynn White in his article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, which engend...

Catholic secondary schools in Slovenia developed in 2003 a unified syllabus for the course called Faith and Culture. Although the course is defined as denominational religious education, it is aimed at promoting dialogue and inter-religious cooperation. After 13 years of teaching the course according to the syllabus, a thorough survey on the qualit...

Reactions to the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia by Pope Francis have been fiercely divided in Slovenia as well. Initially, the official Church showed reluctance towards it. However, there has been more and more signs of a positive reception since the end of 2016. A great majority of the believers and pastoral co-workers understo...

The regulation of surrogacy varies between different countries. There is a trend towards greater liberalization in this area. Ethical evaluation creates a basic dilemma: Is surrogacy a superior form of solidarity between people or the instrumentalization of a woman’s body, being contrary to the fundamental dignity of the human person? The paper dr...

Presentation of Religious Education in Slovenia: A need to reform the curriculum and text-books for RE

The latest findings in embryology coupled with considerations by many countries to lift the ban on creation of human embryos for scientfic purposes stmulate a thorough ethical debate regarding the status of the human embryo. Pluralistic democratic societes attempt to resolve the issue through interdisciplinary approaches involving fields such as em...

Klaus Demmer (1931–2014), einer der führenden Moraltheologen nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, hat der einmaligen Lebensentscheidung eine enorm wichtige Bedeutung im moralischen Leben der einzelnen Person zugeschrieben. Mit der freien und bewussten Entscheidung bestimmt der Einzelne in einem gewissen Zeitabschnitt seines Lebens seine eigene Zu...

Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965) was a fascinating person, a multivalent icon, mostly known as a doctor in primeval forest in Africa. There he elaborated the ethics of boundless responsibility towards all living beings as a treatment for the restoration of the decadent civilization. Until his death, Schweitzer was struggling to elaborate a worldview...

Klaus Demmer (1931-2014), one of leading moral theologians after Vatican II, attributed the course of moral life of an individual to a one-time life decision. An individual conclusively defines his future through a free and conscious decision at a certain moment of his life. The article analyzes this life decision anthropologically and theologicall...

Katoliška cerkev je bila skozi celotno zgodovino našega naroda dejavna tudi na področju vzgoje in izobraževanja, pri čemer se ni omejevala samo na katehezo, ampak je ustanavljala različne oblike šol. Do leta 1774, ko je cesarica Marija Terezija uvedla splošno šolsko obveznost, je bila šolska dejavnost skoraj izključno cerkvena zadeva. Po uveljavitv...

Papež Frančišek – upanje za prihodnost Papež Frančišek že od svoje izvolitve dalje navdušuje ljudi po vsem svetu – verne in neverne. Že prvi večer, ko nas je povabil, naj molimo zanj, preden nam je podelil blagoslov, je jasno pokazal, da papeštvo razume kot služenje. Glavni poudarek njegovega poslanstva ni v lepoti bogoslužja, prav tako ne v obliko...

Gre za prvo celovito monografijo v slovenskem jeziku s področja teološke etike po Drugem vatikanskem koncilu. Zavest o nujnosti etičnega diskruza je tudi znotraj naše družbe čedalje večja in tudi teologija se želi dejavno vključiti v razmišljanje, kaj je dobro za človeka kot posameznika, za človeško družbo in za celotno stvarstvo. Monografija preds...

The Role of the Catholic Moral Theologian in Church and Society. In this contribution I will describe my personal experience of being a moral theologian in the young and small Central European country of Slovenia. In the early nineties there was a process of democratic changes and separation from communist Yugoslavia. During the communist time, the...

Der vorliegende Text behandelt die Frage, ob es möglich ist, moralische Erziehung ohne Bezug auf den Glauben zu unternehmen. In der Vergangenheit war die Moral sehr eng mit dem Glauben verbunden. Auch heute sind einige Menschen davon überzeugt, dass es unmöglich ist, Moral ohne Glauben zu begründen. Auf der anderen Seite wissen wir aber, dass wir i...

The Reverence for Life Worldview as the Basis for a Global Ethics Regarding the current crisis conditions, we are looking for a global ethics. This paper investigates Albert Schweitzer’s reverence for life worldview as a possible contribution to the development of such ethics. With his project at the beginning of the 20th century, Schweitzer wante...

Regarding the current crisis conditions, we are looking for a global ethics. This paper investigates Albert Schweitzer 's reverence for life worldview as a possible contribution to the development of such ethics. With his project at the beginning of the 20th century, Schweitzer wanted to renew the devastated Western culture. Man must experience him...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, an increasing number of thinkers are referring to Schweitzer's ethics of reverence for life. This is particularly useful and applicable with regard to ethical attitudes towards the environment. Immediately after the First World War, Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) diagnosed the decay of western civilizati...

Roman Globokar, Bioethics - Ethics of Life Bioethics is a relatively new science. It appeared in the 1970’s inthe United Stated. The expression »bioethics« was coined by V. R. Potter and he saw therein a bridge between biological sciences andethics. The scientific and technological progress in the fields of medi-cine and biology needs ethical eval...

Die rasanten Fortschritte innerhalb der wissenschaftstechnischen Zivilisation statten den modernen Menschen mit einer bisher unbekannten Macht aus, in das menschliche Leben und die Biosphare entscheidend einzugreifen und sie zu verandern. Die Ethik des Lebens, die wir als Verantwortung fur alles, was lebt, verstehen, fordert eine neue Einstellung d...