003 : Filozofsko-teološki Institut Družbe Isusove

Beginning

In September 1937, a philosophical educational institution was established for members of the Croatian (then Yugoslav) Province of the Society of Jesus under the name Philosophical Institute, located in the Novitiate building of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb, at Jordanovac 110. Philosophy classes at the institute lasted for three years and followed the then Ratio Studiorum, the study order mandatory in the Society of Jesus. In 1954, a Theological Institute was also established, offering a four-year study of theology. These two institutes merged in 1963 into a single institution, which soon became known as the Philosophical-Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb. With further development and the acceptance of non-Jesuit students (priestly candidates and laypeople), individual studies of the new institute were affiliated with the Theological and Philosophical Faculties of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, with the Theological study being affiliated in 1981, and the Philosophical study in 1983.

Development

Through this affiliation, students of the institute gained the right to obtain diplomas in philosophy and theology upon completion of their studies. Due to the favorable development of the Philosophical study, increased interest, and the growing number of students, as well as societal changes, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education elevated the study to the level of a church faculty of philosophy and granted it the right to award academic degrees of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate in the field of philosophy. This marked the end of the Philosophical-Theological Institute (FTI) as a joint educational institution, as the newly established faculty surpassed it. However, neither the original Philosophical Institute (from 1937) nor the Philosophical-Theological Institute remained solely educational institutions; members of the institute were always involved in scientific and research work. They wrote and published books in the fields of philosophy and theology, published the journal "Life" (after World War II, "Renewed Life"), held forums and symposiums, and promoted philosophical, theological, and general religious thought in various ways. Therefore, the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia registered the institute in the register of scientific-research organizations for the scientific fields of philosophy, theology, and religious culture (sciences).

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