Studia Theologica, 2019 (roč. 21), číslo 2

Súlad medzi kňazským a prorockým chápaním kultu na príklade prvej kapitoly knihy Izaiáš

The Harmony between Priestly and Prophetic Concepts of Cult as Demonstrated with Isaiah 1

Bohdan Hroboň

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):1-17 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2019.0021312  

This study challenges the popular assumption that the prophetic understanding of the role of cult in the religion of Ancient Israel was essentially different from the Priestly source. First, it re­‑evaluates and outlines the role of certain basic cultic concepts (namely sacrifice, impurity and holiness) from the Priestly source, and then applies them to the text of Isa 1, especially to the so­‑called cult­‑critical v. 10–17. No serious discrepancy emerges; in fact, reading Isa 1 through the lenses of the Priestly source seems to be more intelligible. Therefore, to label this text as cult­‑critical is simply wrong. The...

Nábožnosť podľa Jak 1,27

Piety according to James 1:27

Július Pavelčík

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):19-42 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0451187  

The study interprets the concept of piety according to James 1:27 with particular reference to both the Old Testament background and the theological context of the Letter of James. The category of purity not only determines the prerequisites for the approach to God, but also defines the boundaries between the community of the believers and the “world” considered as the main source of defilement to be avoided. The ethical requirement of keeping oneself unstained by the “world” and the requirement of social care provided to orphans and widows constitute – in the vertical dimension – the primary conditions for proper...

Vymáhanie kánonickoprávneho zákazu úrokov v stredoveku a ranom novoveku

The Enforcement of Canon­‑Law Prohibition of Interests in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Vojtech Vladár

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):43-74 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0422038  

The word "interest" was defined by the Latin word usura from Classical Times. Even canon law, which rejected the charging of interest on the basis of the arguments of mora-legal rules contained in the writings of the Old and New Testament and their interpretations in the works of the Church Fathers, used this substantive from the beginning. In this account usura, in the sense of taking more than was initially lent when applying the institution of a loan, was forbidden. This was the reason for criticizing and blaming the Catholic Church for its reaction and for slowing down  economic development, namely not only on the part of economic theorists. Several...

Pietro Caterini (1847–?), exemplární odpůrce evolučního vzniku člověka

Pietro Caterini (1847–?), an Exemplary Opponent of the Evolutionary Origin of Man

Ctirad Václav Pospíšil

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):75-95 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2019.0291036  

In this paper, the author presents Pietro Caterini, who ranked among the important opponents of Mivert´s thesis among Catholic theologians in the 1870s and 1880s in Italy. He published 37 anti-darwinian studies in La Civiltà Cattolica and then a nearly 400 page long book with the same content. The author analyses in detail the above-mentioned book and discovers that not everything in Catherini´s argumentation can be viewed as unacceptable. We encounter bright places, e.g. the resolute refusal of racism, but also dark places, e.g. the unacceptable extent of the competence of the biblical message, which is sometimes understood in a nearly fundamentalist...

Kauza Grimmenstein: rezignace olomouckého kanovníka a preláta Grimmensteina na kanonikát a jeho další působení

Grimmenstein´s Case: The Resignation of the Canon of Olomouc and Prelate Grimmenstein from the Canonry Due to Non­‑Observance of Residence

Jitka Jonová

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):97-121 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2019.0031244  

Josef Grimmenstein, thanks to his noble origin and the favor of the Habsburg­‑Lorraine ruling family, became a canon of the Metropolitan Capital of Olomouc, although he never worked pastorally in the Archdiocese. He neglected his duties as a canon, and was mostly outside the Archdiocese. He justified his absence (his neglect of residence obligations) by health problems. In addition, reports appeared from time to time about his debts or non­‑priestly behavior. Archbishops Cardinal Skrbenský and Stojan urged him to adhere to the residence, but the change did not occur. Archbishop Leopold Prečan did not want to continue to tolerate Grimmenstein’s...

Mravní jistota jako princip soudního rozhodnutí

Moral Certitude as a Principle of the Judicial Sentence

Jiří Kašný

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):123-133 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0521105  

The article examines the requirement of moral certitude in a judicial decision in canon law according to canon 1608 of the Code of Canon Law of 1983. It opens with the Papal Allocutions of Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II. It analyses and comments on canon 1608 which rules moral certitude as a principle of the canonical sentence. It consequently examines various aspects of the process of reaching moral certitude, especially the process of collecting and evaluating the proofs, the right of defense of the parties to the process, and the obligation of the judge to appraise the proofs according to the judge’s own conscience. Finally, it concludes...

Kritika Hobbesovy politické filosofie u Josepha Vialatouxe: O příčinách totalitarismu ve XX. století

Criticism of Hobbes' Political Philosophy by Joseph Vialatoux: On the Causes of Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century

Jan Koblížek

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):135-152 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0491948  

In the present text, we provide a commentary on Hobbes' political theory, written by a philosopher from Lyon Joseph Vialatoux. Vialatoux attempts to place this classic philosophical concept of political power based on materialism into new contexts. He sees an analogy between Hobbes' thinking and the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, Nazism and Communism. What applies to the Hobbes state – Leviathan, which is just a machine and man just part of this bureaucratic-mechanical system, also applies to all totalitarian systems that have emerged in history. Vialatoux reminds us that specific politics and political power is always born in...

Hermeneutika Davida Tracyho: via media mezi Gadamerem a Ricoeurem

The Hermeneutics of David Tracy: via media between Gadamer and Ricoeur

Zdenko Š Širka

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):153-175 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2018.0431433  

The theology of the Roman Catholic theologian David Tracy can be perceived as an appropriation of the hermeneutics of Hans­‑Georg Gadamer, whom he pursues in many aspects (an emphasis on both interpretation and finitude, a rejection of Cartesianism, plurality of meanings). Tracy does not want, however, hermeneutics to collapse into inappropriate relativism, and thus seeks criteria for assessing discrepancies in interpretation. It is therefore possible to formulate the thesis that Gadamer’s hermeneutics is crucial for Tracy, but he supplements it with the critical implications of the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur, especially...

Současné pojetí spirituality a pojem meditace (lectio divina) jako odraz filokalického hnutí v křesťanské praxi

The Present Concept of Spirituality and the Idea of Meditation (lectio divina)
Being a Reflection of the Philokalia Movement in Christian Practice

Luisa Karczubová

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):177-195 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2019.0081460  

The idea of meditation is a multivocal expression in current discourse. First, there is a need to proceed from the context of semantics. The fact is that the usual level of usage of this term covers several levels of understanding: meditation as a mental prayer in the Christian tradition; the method of internalization with Eastern, non­‑Christian spiritual movements; the reflection of excerpts of holy Islamic texts; or a philosophical treatise, a literary essay or a psychotherapy technique including popularizing approaches to the usage of this term (meditative music or meditation with a picture). That is why the term meditation is part of broader...

Filozofia kultúry z perspektívy kultu v diele Pavla Alexandroviča Florenského (*1882, +1937)

The Philosophy of Culture from the Perspective of the Cult in the Work of P. A. Florensky (*1882, +1937)

Daniel Porubec

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):197-224 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2019.0041261  

Did Florensky bring something new to the field of philosophy of culture? His merit lies primarily in his intentional use of the concept of ὁµοουσία, oneness-in-substance, in both metaphysics and cosmology. Florensky wrapped his philosophical and cosmolo-gical visions into "a religious garment" and theological terminology and attempted, in his unique approach, to solve the problem of "universal unity", "all-human consciousness", especially "all-human principles", questions which had engaged numerous Slavophilia philosophers earlier. His philosophy of culture is not about despising the world, but about the bright...

Recenze, Studia theologica 21, č. 2 (2019)

Pavel Ambros, Jiří Vogel, Marián Ambrozy

Studia Theologica 2019, 21(2):225-248707