Studia Theologica, 2003 (roč. 5), číslo 2

Christian Theology and Religion

Spirituální proudy v katolické církvi v Československu mezi světovými válkami a česká katolická moderna

Spiritual Trends in the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and Czech Catholic Modernism

Pavel Ambros

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):1-14466

The article gives basic trends of the Christian spirituality in Czechoslovakia in the historical context of the period from 1918 to 1948. It shows the folk devotion as a stabilizing element of the religious life, the development of Czech spiritual tradition in that epoch (mainly the cyrilo-methodian tradition), the struggle for getting over the negative heritage of Austrian monarchy. The article points out the importance of the presence of the Czech, Slovak, German and Hebrew nations in Czechoslovakia for the specific features of this period, the importance of the social issues and the influence of the universal Roman Catholic Church on the spiritual...

Jáhni v Čechách a na Moravě

The Deacons in the Czech and Moravian Dioceses

Michal Opatrný, Alois Křišťan

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):41-52528

Nowadays, pastoral ministry is understood more in its diaconal dimension than it used to be over the past decades. In the Catholic Church, deacons are involved in it in a specific way. Their ministry is still a new phenomenon looking for its identity. The above text is dealing with two questions: firstly, how the deacons in the Czech and Moravian dioceses exercise their diaconal ministry, and secondly, if there are any potential candidates interested in diaconate. As for the first question, the text introduces the results of a qualitative research (using structured interview) conducted within a group of 25 deacons. As far as the other question is concerned,...

Hab 2,4 v Novém zákoně

Hab 2:4 in the New Testament

Ladislav Tichý

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):53-61420

The Old Testament passage in Hab 2:4 speaking of the just man who "will live by his faithfulness" is quoted three times in the New Testament: twice by the apostle Paul (Ro 1:17 and Gal 3:11) and once in the Epistle to the Hebrews (10:38). The quotations are slightly different both from the Hebrew text and from the Septuagint (there is a difference between Paul and Hebrews, too). Paul uses Hab 2:4 as an argument for his doctrine of justification by the faith in Jesus Christ. The author of Hebrews cites this passage in connection with his encouragement to endure in the Christian faith. The use of Hab 2:4 in Qumran is also very instructive. We can see...

Metoda narativní teologie: "Porozumění nastává až po události"

A Method of Narrative Theology: "Understanding comes only after an event"

Michal Altrichter

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):62-67597

The article is divided into three major parts. The first one deals with the basic definition of what the term "narrative theology" means. The second one is dedicated to the expression "memoria" as the memory of events. The third part concentrates on the relation between "understanding" and the "event". Narrative theology is based upon its own discipline methodology. Its rules are restricted and take into account the basic paradigm: the "theology of the text" growing from the "theology of the speech". The discipline of narrative theology was initiated by Johannes Baptist Metz and Harald Weinrich in the year 1973. They developed (with regard to the model...

Chrám jako domus ecclesiae

Church as domus ecclesiae

František Kunetka

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):68-74621

In Christian understanding, churches are gathering places of Church congregations for liturgical actions. But a church is a relative actuality because Christians can assemble everywhere. For a theology of liturgical space, the understanding of the very person of Jesus Christ as temple is important, i.e. as the space of meeting of God and Human, and also the understanding of the Church, viz. the community of the believers in Christ, as a temple "of living stones". A church is domus ecclesiae, i.e. the space where a local Church congregation comes into being.

Abrahám z ki-uri? K nové interpretaci "Uru Kaldejců"

Abraham from ki-uri?: About a new interpretation of "Ur of the Chaldeans"

Ivan Hrůša

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):86-89414

An attempt at deriving the biblical local name "Ur" from the Sumerian geographical term ki-uri encounters some serious difficulties: 1) the Sumerian sources do not give the precise extension of the ki-uri and, if one wants to seek the homeland of the Patriarchs of Israel in the region around north-Mesopotamian Haran, the geographical connotations of the term akkadû, which serves as a translation of the Sumerian ki-uri into Akkadian, seem to speak strongly against the opinion that ki-uri included that area; 2) ki-uri, being a Sumerian term, is hardly to be found as the starting point of a tradition of the Semitic nomadic tribes whose language,...

History

Uzavírání manželství podle civilního a kanonického práva. Historický přehled

Marriage in the Civil Law and Canonical Law

Jiří Kašný

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):30-40817

The study offers a historical outline of marriage from the canonical law as well as civil law points of view. Marriage has always been considered important to the beginning of a new family. However, in the Jewish, Roman, and Germanic traditions different moments were considered essential to celebrating marriage. The mixing of these traditions raised a question: what makes marriage? The engagement, the consent, or the consummation of marriage? The Roman tradition saying that the consent makes marriage eventually prevailed. In order to celebrate marriage validly, three aspects are crucial: the ability of a man and a woman to marriage, the consent of...

K historiografii sakrální architektury

Toward the Historiography of Sacral Architecture

Miloslav Pojsl

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):75-80456

The Department of the History of the Church and Christian Art of St. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacký University in Olomouc does research and documents sacral architecture in the Olomouc Archdiocese (Moravia and Silesia) within the limits set by the Research aims in question. This research also wants to encounter the current state of knowledge. The study presented examines scholarly interest in sacral architecture since the mid-19th century within the respective territories. Cemeteries and sepulchres in general are also considered to be an inseparable part of sacral architecture. We have been giving attention to these works of art for...

Osudy katolické církve na jihu Čech - diecéze v období 2. vatikánského koncilu

The History of the Catholic Church in Southern Bohemia - The Diocese during the 2nd Vatican Council

Martin Weis

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):81-85353

This article maps, on the basis of archive materials, a further section of the history of the Catholic Church in Southern Bohemia - the immediate impact of the 2nd Vatican Council on the life of the diocese of České Budějovice. The introductory part briefly summarizes the position and role of Bishop František Tomášek at the Council. It is followed by a passage dealing with the reaction of the Communist state administration to the course of the Council sessions. Then the paper mentions the unfortunate role of the peace movement of the Catholic clergy and its transformation into the Work of the Council Revival at the time of the political thawing, called...

Philosophy

Ricoeurovo pojetí symbolu a jeho aplikace v liturgii

Ricoeur's Concept of Symbol and Its Application in Liturgy

Vít Hušek

Studia Theologica 2003, 5(2):15-29979

According to Paul Ricoeur's early works Symbolism of Evil and Freud and Philosophy, symbol is an element of language characterised by a double-meaning structure. This conception is modified in Ricoeur's works on metaphor (Living Metaphor and Interpretation Theory) where a sentence (not an isolated word) becomes a point of departure. For Ricoeur, a typical example of symbol is a language of confession; the symbolic action or gesture is not considered. A more appropriate point of departure for the interpretation of liturgy can be found in Ricoeur's theory of text (a unit of discourse more complex than a sentence and "separated" from the author). The...