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Theology of Jakob Böhm.
Ondráček, Václav ; Wernisch, Martin (advisor) ; Kranát, Jan (referee) ; Nejeschleba, Tomáš (referee)
This works considers the developments of theological thought of Jacob Böhme (c/a 1570-1624) a German thinker - philosopher and mystic, mainly with respect to the basic theological concepts of God and Trinity. Since these are in Böhme's thinking tightly interwoven with theosophical concepts of nature and creation, these had to be taken to account, too. Böhme's theology is portrayed in its step by step changing form, following the sequence of Böhme's published works, starting with Böhme's primeval intuition of a dual God and twofold eternal Nature and the initial concepts of seven Qualities, over the milestones meaning introduction of Böhme's basic concept of Three Principles and his profound depiction of the Primeval God - using the concepts of Will, Unground, Eye and several others, as far as their mystical consequences in Böhme's last works. In Chapter VII, a view is given of Böhme's attitude to another theological topic, i.e. that of salvation and predestination. These theological consideration are viewed on the background of Böhme's life, considering also various possible interrelations, which his teaching might have had to particular contemporary issues of importance and stating the most important people involved in them. As a conclusion it tries to follow the way of Bohmian thought after the death of...
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Kabbalistic sources in the philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Herůfek, Jan ; Neubauer, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hladký, Vojtěch (referee) ; Nejeschleba, Tomáš (referee)
This work deals with Mirandola's concept of natural magic and Christian Cabala. I based my study on Pico's prohibited heretic thesis: "There is no science that assures us more of divinity of Christ than magic and Cabala." Pico defended this thesis in the fifth part of Apology. Later Princeps concordiae returned to the same topic, at first in the incomplete work Comentto, then in his late works Expositiones in psalmos and Heptaplus. In the first chapter I incorporate Pico into the historical context. I put emphasis on both Pico's way to philosophical knowledge and his application of philosophical and theological knowledge in the 900 Theses, which was an ambitious but not very successful project. I used the failure of the disputation and the subsequent condemnation of the theses as a starting point for developing the thesis on magic and Cabala in the two following parts. The next chapter focuses on Pico's concept of magic and necromancy. It is necessary to say that Pico never dealt only with magic, but he always related it to astrology or Cabala Defending the status of these sciences in Apology against his opponents, Princeps concordiae followed his division of sciences, introduced earlier in Oratio. Pico related his curriculum scientiarum to the pseudo-Dionysian process. Dialectics and moral philosophy were...
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