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Orthodox way in the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church
MARTINEK, Filip Gorazd
The presented work introduces the kind reader to the Orthodox and Portuguese crisis in the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church, with the addition of a description of its conclusion in the present crisis of ecclesiastical identity. The first part of the thesis presents the genesis of this church and its roots in Catholic modernism, followed by a description of the first stage of the Orthodox crisis, and an analysis of the central document, the so-called Guidelines of Bishop Gorazd. The thesis then continues with an account of the victory of the liberal orientation over the Orthodox ecumenical program. It further depicts echoes of the Orthodox crisis noticeable in the Portuguese crisis and describes the formation of the Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church. The last section thematizes the contemporary crisis of ecclesial identity through the example of the development of the liturgical vestments, the problem of the liturgy, and the Eucharist.
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Štefan Polakovič and Slovak Political Catholicism
Lenčéšová, Michaela ; Kopeček, Michal (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee) ; Šebek, Jaroslav (referee)
The dissertation explores the political thinking of the Catholic philosopher Štefan Polakovič (1912-1999), who is considered one of the main ideologists of Jozef Tiso's politics during the Slovak state (1939-1945). In the context of the political struggle between President Tiso and Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, Polakovič participated in the Nazification of Slovak Catholic political thinking by creating Slovak and Catholic concepts inspired by the ideology of the German National Socialists. After the Second World War, from Argentina, he tried to achieve the restoration of the Slovak state and in the 1990s he was one of the apologists of Jozef Tiso's politics and a supporter of the idea of the anti-fascist Catholic resistance in the milieu of the Hlinka Slovak People's Party. The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate, what were the main reasons for Polakovič's fascism and why he considered the nation-state as the only acceptable form of statehood for the Slovak nation. Although the dissertation concentrates mainly on Polakovic's thinking during the Slovak state period, it also pays attention to Polakovič's thinking during Argentine emigration in an attempt to reflect the development of his thinking throughout the twentieth century. First, this dissertation describes the birth and history of...
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