Facultas Theologica Catholica
Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis
Svrha
Svrha je Fakulteta njegovanje, znanstveno istraživanje te sustavno i cjelovito izlaganje kršćanske Objave, unaprjeđivanje spoznaje njezine istine preko filozofsko-teoloških znanosti; odgoj i obrazovanje biskupijskoga klera, članova ustanova posvećenoga života, članova družba apostolskoga života i katoličkih laika; evangelizacija i inkulturacija kršćanstva kao i razvoj kršćanske filozofske i teološke misli, u suradnji s ostalim znanstvenim ustanovama; unaprjeđenje ekumenizma i razgovora sa svim kršćanima, promicanje dijaloga s nekršćanima i onima koji ne vjeruju, sa svijetom i kulturom.
Vision
The Faculty sees itself in the future as being what it was in the past, the most important and the most excellent bearer of scientific, research, teaching, spiritual and cultural work in scientific fields of philosophy, theology, pastoral theology, religious pedagogy, catechesis, bioethics, social teaching of the Church and other similar humanistic and social sciences, as well as artistic work in the field of music, especially Church music, whose only bearer in Croatia is precisely the Faculty. The Faculty wants to participate, in line with its competencies which include scientific, research, teaching, artistic, publishing and professional activity, in forming, promoting and carrying out of the new evangelisation of Croatian people.
Mission
The Faculty wants to remain faithful to its original, traditional and well tested mission of an ecclesial scientific-research institution of higher education, while being deeply aware of its responsibility in the Church, the University of Zagreb, and Croatian society. Through scientific-research, scientific-teaching, artistic-research, artistic-teaching, and publishing programmes and projects in its proper domains of science and art, the Faculty will continue, as it has until now, to develop serious scientific and artistic research, educate the complete human person, who can, with her/his spiritual, intellectual and moral virtues, contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God on earth, to pursuing the mission of the local and universal Church, and to the common good of the whole Croatian society and the community of the European nations and countries.
VALUES
In a special way the Faculty recognizes, accepts and promotes Christian, authentically human and universal values, which are in accordance with the universal Gospel mission of the Church, of which the Faculty is a constituent part. In the center of the moral-ethical valuation and the system of the Faculty are the values that enable, confirm and achieve the intimate communion of the human being with the God of Jesus Christ. These are the fundaments of the Faculty’s valorization and development of the integral image of the human being as the human person created – as a man and a woman – in the image of God. The highest authentic universal human value that the Faculty unconditionally accepts, respects and promotes is the dignity of each human being – from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death – as the dignity of the human person. On the basis of this absolute and inviolable human dignity of each human person, the Faculty accepts, respects and promotes the Christian truth in love and the Christian love in truth, which together constitute the essence of the Faculty’s ethos and its value system.
Tradition
As the oldest – not only ecclesiastical but also civil – Croatian institution of higher education with almost seven centuries of uninterrupted existence in more than one form, and since 1874 in the composition of the University of Zagreb, the Faculty has gone through many internal reforms, expansions, and modernisations, all in attempt to respond adequately to the current needs of and challenges that the Church and society had or faced. The Faculty is a living organism which grows and develops and which has its own ups and downs, but through all of that it remained faithful to its own long and rich tradition, which is its deposit of its certain and, hopefully, bright future. For this hope, there are not only good foundations, but also quality upgrade which needs to be further improved in a wise and prudent way, to be modernised and adjusted to the needs the Church and society and the challenges they are facing.