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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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"Global Ethic and Bahá'u'lláh's World Order (an evaluation of two ethical models)"
Pilecká, Kristýna ; Keřkovský, Pavel (advisor) ; Štampach, Ivan (referee) ; Machálek, Vít (referee)
The Dissetation explores the issues of peaceful World Order visions which are outlined by two religious- ethical programes.The first one is the the Global Ethic Project designed by Swiss Theologian Hans Küng The second one stems from the Bahá'í Faith, which originated in Íran in the middle of the 19th century. Both programs focus on ways of improving the present circumstances of human society on a global scale by means of using ethical principles on a global level.The Dissertation examines the ethical- religious guidelines of the Global Ethic and the Bahá'í Faith. It strives to clarify a way to implement their intentions and strategies, which are considered to be a framework for a vision of a peaceful World Order. At the same time, it pays attention to the universality of humanitarian principles, which both of the models infer from religion. Observing the universality of the ethical-religious principles deduced from the world's religions in terms of "humanum" in relation to a "divinum" is considered to be a normative criterion implicating progress in terms of global society improvement.The first part of the Dissertation deals with the historical background while describing the trajectory of the origins of both programes for a new peaceful World Order.The second part disscusses the norms of statements...
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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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