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Messianic Myth
Píštěk, Zdeněk ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
I am dealing with Messianic myth, graphically designated as U. This U marks the descent, the suffering in the abyss of humanity and redeeming output back, as can be read in the Apostolic confession of faith. This path is undergoing God in several mythologies, God's representative, or the divine king. The work covers issues of archetypal, universality, and continuity of the myth in various religious systems in history. I ask also enquire for his ethical and anthropological meaning and significance. The following is mapped sense of archetype of descending God, natural vegetative mythology, as in Christianity and Luria's Kabbalah . It is not possible to miss the interpretation of myth, an archetype of consciousness and unconsciousness. I am trying to highlight here the importance of myth U in relationship to the creation and his theology. The result of this work should be an overview of possible reflections of the myth U in different mythologies and today's man faith. I am going to try to prove its continuity and meaningfulness of relating the man to God. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Funeral and mourning in judaism
Turecká, Jana ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
Funeral and mourning in judaism The thesis, that is presented here, aims to explore an approach towards dying and death in judaism, system of rites in jewish burial, and coping with death with the assistance of these rituals and grieving process. Author focuses on the concept of life and death withing jewish view, depicts the meaning of rituals and healing processes, which follow after death. She also compares grieving, as we know it in judaism, with psychological approach towards grieving, that is with (five) stages of grief according to Elisabeth Kübler - Ross. Through that, the theme embodies a discourse, which allows an interdisciplinary discussion. Author of this thesis is trying to find connections and mutual contribution among the two main showed approaches, finding profits and meanings of funeral rituals and grieving stages, and therefore finding a new view of life, good dying and the healing process of grief.
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Religious movements. Authority. Autonomy. Risk.
Najbrtová, Michaela ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
This work studies the phenomenon of religious movement in its two different trends; either to freedom/autonomy or to the authority/dependence. It observes the phenomenon of religious movement from psychological and sociological point. It indicates the exchange of freedom for safety, the autonomy for security as the natural human need within this religious movement area. It points at mechanisms of uncontrolled authority expansion and dependence development and at the risk they represent. Principally in the above mentioned risk this work is searching for the similarity of religious movements with the ideological ones. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Do We and Muslims Believe in the Same God?
Koreček, Tomáš ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Hošek, Pavel (referee)
The thesis "Do we and muslims believe in the same God?" tries to find answer to the question whether Christians and Muslims share the faith in the same God. In five chapters. History, Dogmatics, Ethics, Religiousness and Conclusion, it presents selection of arguments for finding agreements, correspondence, differences and divergences between Christianity and Islam, particularly with focus on expressions of faith. The first chapter shows encounters Christians with Muslims in history from the beginning of Islam. The second chapter tries to compare principal dogmatic topics of both religions. The third chapter examines what ethics rules are for Christianity and Islam common and which are different. The fourth chapter describes expression of religiousness of Muslims and Christians. The fifth chapter answers the question how much Christians and Muslims share the faith in the same God. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Owen Barfield's Concept of Imagination in Dialogue with C.S. Lewis
Hájek, Matěj ; Hošek, Pavel (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Balabán, Milan (referee)
The main topic of this disertation is a philosophical and theological reflection of imagination in the thought of two 20th century british thinkers and writers Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis. The attention is foccused first on C. S. Lewis and his approach to the topic. The analysis of his insights serves as a terminological and interpretative tool for detailed analysis of Barfield's stance which is elaborated later. Lewis's approach is observed in wider context of his epistemology and his theological evaluation of religion. Lewis's concept of imagination is placed from the very begining into the fundamental frame of his life and thought, which is the tension between "rational" and "imaginative" aspect of personality, or between "subject" and "object". It is still more obvious in the course of the analysis, that the tension between "subject" and "object" as well as seeking of its overcoming is an integrating motif of the whole Lewis's corpus. In the conclusion of Lewis's part, there is presented a summary of his intellectual approach to the imagination, which not being a comprehensive theory, still reveals an elaborated philosophical-theological reflection of the topic. Next part deals with the approach of Barfield, whose conception is analysed in more detail. A comprehensive theory of imagination is...
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The organization of the Czechoslovak spiritist movement.
Hudáková, Andrea ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
The Dissertation Organization of Czechoslovakian spiritist movement surveys the existence of spiritist groups and communities In Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia on the basis of preserved administrative records and other sources. Their activities and reciprocal organizational links have been reconstructed through an analysis of preserved articles of these communities, administrative records and other reports published in newspapers. A wider context of the problematics has been provided by a treatise of further literature of the period, which reflected the spreading of spiritism. A common feature of most of the communities was their identification with the emerging Czechoslovakian spiritist movement. One of the primary objectives of the movements was to unify the activities of Czechoslovakian spiritists. This process is described from the first suggestions to create a unified organization in 1895, to a forced dissolution of the communities in 1951. The current situation of research in this field does not permit any comparison between the key outputs of the dissertation and the opinions of other authors. The differences of tendencies of the spiritist movementalso reflected in specific suggestions on the organization of the movement and their further implementation. The long-time effort of the...
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Attitudes of the Christians towards Islam: History - Presence - Perspectives
Machálek, Vít ; Balabán, Milan (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Kropáček, Luboš (referee)
Attitudes of the Christians towards Islam: History - Presence - Perspectives This thesis studies the Christian attitudes towards Islam, both in history and at present time. It puts the topic in the wider context of relating to "otherness" of others and examines in the framework of the inter-disciplinary approach. First chapter introduces selected concepts of religious studies, psychology and social sciences, that concern the inter-religious relations. Second introductory chapter is based on comparative religion. It analyses main accords as well as divergencies between Christianity and Islam. Third chapter deals with the history of religions. It gradually analyses phases of history in the relations between the Christians and the Muslims and the attitudes taken by the Christians towards Islam. Fourth chapter depicts the relations between the Christians and the Muslims at present as well as in the recent past. It presents the Christian views of Islam in the period between the end of the Second World War and the year 2009. The closing chapter is dedicated to the present state relations between the Christians and the Muslims. It builds on previous chapters and analyses various paradigms from the history of the Christian attitudes towards Islam, which are current in present-day Christianity. It attempts...
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