Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):1-13449
This article offers an interpretation of difficult words caw läcäw qaw läqäw in Isa 28,10.13. Rendering the words as a gibberish utterance of drunken priests and prophets or as a children's babbling is to be refused. It seems better to interpret the words as an imitation of some incomprehensible speech of foreigners in Jerusalem. In Isa 28,13, the prophet surely imitates the language of Assyrian conquerors, whose advance presents God's sarcastic response to His people for the lack of the trust in the time of Sennacherib's invasion. As for Isa 28,10, there are two possibilities of interpretation. The utterance could have the same meaning as it has later...
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):14-28634
Story of the Good Samaritan is one of the most well-known and beautiful parables of Jesus. This parable is found only in the Gospel of Luke. It is located within the Travel Narrative (Lk 9:51-19:27). More specifically, it follows the discussion concerning salvation between Jesus and the lawyer in Lk 10:25-29. For the acquirement of salvation it is indispensable to love God and neighbor (Lk 10:27). The command to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself is presented as uniform act. The required absolute love God takes a place in a special way in the love neighbor, which is illustrated by the parable. The priest and a Levite provide an example...
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):29-361037
In his polemics against Pelagianism, Augustine of Hippo quotes his master Ambrose of Milan as a witness of the doctrine of original sin. However, Ambrose uses the expression peccata haereditaria only once and the term peccatum originale never. In his comments to the Psalm 50 he holds that every man (except Christ) is from the conception and birth infected by a contagion or iniquity caused by the fall of Adam. Unlike Augustine, the need to defend the personal responsibility lead Ambrose to underline the difference between our sin and the one of Adam. For that reason he stresses that the consequences of Adam's fall lies in the inclination to fault, everyone...
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):62-66385
The paper deals with the problem of catechesis in contemporary secularized society with respect to Czech conditions, where the view of religion and Church is often very strongly distorted. This reflection is based on the method of a famous 19th century personality, Don Bosco, who perfectly united supernatural with natural, divine with human. His work is considered to be an inspiration for the education of young people nowadays and for the dialogue between the Church and modern society. Catechesis as a presentation of Christian ideals in an attractive and addressing way, or the effort to call a reaction on the Gospel, is the everlasting need.
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):47-54452
The study introduces several parts of three papal Constitutions of the 16th century, Altitudo divini consilii by Paul III, Romani Pontificis by Pius V, Populis ac nationibus by Gregory XIII, in Latin original and in Czech translation. The Constitutions gave special faculties to the missionaries to solve local difficult pastoral situations that were caused by polygamy and the slave trade. Then, the Constitutions are studied in the context of marriage indissolubility and compared with the Pauline Privilege.
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):55-61514
This study documents, by means of works written by contemporary chroniclers - exiles fleeing the country after the Battle of the White Mountain - the causes and consequences of the Czech Estates Uprising. The most important source to provide us with information on this range of problems is the Ecclesiastic History by Pavel Skála of Zhoř. Pavel Skála of Zhoř was a clerk of the directorial government and the royal office of Friedrich von Pfalz (Frederick Palatine), whom he accompanied abroad for two years. In the last four volumes of his Ecclesiastic History he gives an account, from the point of view of an eyewitness, of events in the context of the...
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):37-46422
The paper reflects about the dissertation work by Peter Volek and about the Husserl's Phenomenology and St. Thomas Aquinas' Philosophy by Edith Stein in the light of Luz González Umeres' thinking. It refers to contribution of some Edith Stein's epistemological observations into the theory of knowledge in the structure of real objects of the metaphysical realism as well as to signification of her independent thinking. At the same time it reveals the reasons, why that important nowadays philosopher looks back to the traditional theories with so resolute metaphysical attitude.
Studia Theologica 2004, 6(3):67-92654