Žmonijos Likimas Šv. Jono Apreiškimo Knygoje
Kun. Vytautas Jonas Bagdanavičius, MIC
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Introduction
This substantial scholarly volume by Marian priest Vytautas Jonas Bagdanavičius, MIC, offers a sustained theological and literary analysis of the Book of Revelation (Šv. Jono Apreiškimo knyga) in the context of humanity's fate and salvation history. Written in refined Lithuanian, it engages patristic sources, early Christian communities, and apocalyptic symbolism with academic depth. As a Lithuanian-language work of Catholic biblical scholarship produced in diaspora, it represents a significant intellectual contribution to Lithuanian religious letters outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania.
Community and publication context
Community and publication setting
Context and significance
Significance
Vytautas Jonas Bagdanavičius, MIC (1908–2008) was one of the most prolific Lithuanian Catholic theologians and philosophers of the twentieth century, spending most of his adult life in the United States as a member of the Marian Fathers. This volume demonstrates that Lithuanian-language biblical scholarship of international intellectual caliber continued uninterrupted in diaspora even as Lithuania was under Soviet occupation. The depth of engagement with patristic sources, early Christian history, and the Greek and Hebrew dimensions of the Apocalypse—delivered fluently in Lithuanian—testifies to the vitality of the Lithuanian intellectual and religious tradition in exile.
How this record carried memory
Production of serious Lithuanian-language Catholic theological scholarship in diaspora, maintaining intellectual and religious tradition outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania and sustaining Lithuanian as a language of scholarly discourse in exile communities.