From the archive: prof. dr. sc. Tomislav Ivančić
Hagiotherapy in the 21st century? They say it will be a century of the spirit. It seems to me that this will be more of a century of a great return of Europe to its triple roots because it is a return to life.
Mak Dizdar expresses this in a poem:
I flowed like a stream, then like a river, and I stopped: how can I return to my source?
Only in that way Europe can be freed from its twilight and the West from its destruction.
“The 21st century Christian will be either a mystic or he will not be a Christian,” said Karl Rahner.
In its 23 years of existence, hagiotherapy clearly shows that the synthesis of mind and reason needs to be re-established and that the material and anthropological, spiritual and psychic world need to be developed harmoniously.
We have wandered for too long and we no longer know how to get out of the terrible sufferings that were condensed in the 20th century and are threatening to evolve into a civilization without mind and heart, into fratricidal conflicts, into a world where man has become least important, where we are disoriented and no longer knowing which way to go, right or left, up or down because we have lost the Being, God, our centre. As Joergensen’s spider shows – everything fell into the mud.
Hagiotherapy not only shows the way back to the philanthropic world but also by healing the central and most dangerous human wounds, pains of conscience, helplessness, guilt, and ideological deviations, it enables a return to life. It brings man back to his core, where intellect and ratio, man and God, man and nature, science and culture, having and being fruitfully encounter.
I consider it to be the medicine of the future.
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He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
