Tridento Susirinkimo 18 kanono įgyvendinimo Lietuvoje pėdsakais

Abstract

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, kaip Lietuvoje buvo įgyvendinamas Tridento Susirinkimo 18 kanonas ir kaip dabar traktuojamos įgyvendinant šį kanoną atsiradusios įstaigos

The title indicates an important gap in the Lithuanian historiography – lack of understanding the essence of both the decision of establishing seminaries and the seminaries itself. Historians who were describing the past of Lithuania have never made any attempts to analyze the essence of the seminary as an institution in the 16th–18th centuries. Only one research work devoted to this issue can be mentioned – namely, the doctoral thesis by the author of this article on the Papal seminary in Vilnius. The thesis deals with the essence of one particular seminary, but the essence of other seminaries as institutions remains outside the scope of attention. The problem arises due to Lithuanian historiography of recent decades: the newest study of Vilnius university history, as well as the newest study of the history of Christianity in Lithuania, both show the tendency to treat the early seminaries (those founded in Lithuania at the end of the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century) as students’ residences and not as special institutions. This treatment discloses lack of understanding both of the very idea of the Council of Trent about the institution of seminaries and the essence of implementing it in Lithuania. To solve the problem, the following questions have been raised: 1) how did the Church Fathers imagine the seminaries to be founded and how was the idea formulated in the 18th canon of the Council of Trent? 2) What were the early seminaries like? 3) What did the contemporaries call the Lithuanian seminaries of the 16th–18th centuries? 4) What were the essential features of the Lithuanian seminaries in the 16th–18th centuries? 5) How are the Lithuanian seminaries of the 16th–18th centuries conceived and explained by Polish and Lithuanian historians? 6) How should the Lithuanian seminaries of the 16th–18th centuries be understood and what should they be called?. [...]