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The collaboration of the Catholic Church and priests with the socialist regime of the GDR in theological and ethical reflection
Buss, Gregor ; Rethmann, Albert-Peter (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee) ; Šrajer, Jindřich (referee)
The doctoral thesis tries to reflect the collaboration of Catholic priests with the Ministry for State Security (= Ministerium für Staatssicherheit; MfS or Stasi) in the former GDR from a theological perspective. This is done in two steps. The first part of the thesis illustrates the historical background. This includes an introduction into the history, ideology and working methods of the Stasi. The main goal, however, is to give an overview of the amount and charakter of the collaboration of Catholic priests. The first part ends with a typology of the different motives and reasons for cooperating with the Stasi. In the second part the problem of collaboration is reflected from an ethical perspective. It is not intended to evaluate individual cases, but to elaborate criteria for the evaluation of individual cases. The guiding assumption is that the cooperation with state security ether arose from a lack of willing, a lack of ability, or a lack of cognition. The priests were therefore either limited in their moral motivation, their freedom or their cognitive competence. To what extent these limitations were caused by the priests themselves or by the surrounding circumstances, can be regarded as a key question when it comes to evaluating cases of collaboration.
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Collaboration of priest with secret police from historical and ethical perspective Ethic compromise be collaboration of priest with secret police.
Pavol, Jozef ; Novotný, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee) ; Šrajer, Jindřich (referee)
The doctoral thesis tries to reflect the collaboration of Catholic priest with the State Security Service (ŠtB). This is done in two steps. The first part illustrates the historical background based on research of archive materials and testimony of living priests - agents. Results of historical research tell us that it is not possible to assess the collaboration across the board just on the registration of agents in secret police register. Core of historical part is a typology of collaboration. It serves as a base for input to the second ethical part of doctoral thesis. The main goal of ethical part is to find objective criterions for answerable and ethical way out from moral dilemmas. Core of this part is theory about ethical compromise with two normative principles - principle of small evil and principle of double effect. The analysis of small evil didn't get a satisfy way out from the situation of blackmail: in the concrete situation it didn't tell us, which evil is smaller and which is bigger. The principle of double effect showed us, that the collaboration in blackmail situation is without proportionate cause, in other words, is counterproductive to their value in universal perspective. The priests hadn't any guaranty, that after consent with collaboration in blackmail, the damage on their side but...
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Ethics between Reason and Revelation. Analysis of the Augustin Zippe's moral-theological concept. (1746/7-1816)
Lorman, Jaroslav ; Rethmann, Albert-Peter (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee) ; Šrajer, Jindřich (referee)
Etika mezi zjevením a rozumem. Analýza morálně teologického konceptu Augustina Zippeho (1746/7-1816) Předložená práce představuje pokus přiblížit se jedné části morálně-teologické tradice. Práce obsahuje pět kapitol (kromě úvodu a závěru). První dvě kapitoly se zabývají otázkami metody a stavem bádání o českém církevním osvícenství. Třetí pak představuje rekonstruovanou biografii Augustina Zippeho v kontextu jeho díla a doby. Čtvrtou kapitolu tvoří vybraná témata (liturgie, tolerance, křesťanské manželství aj.) z morálně-teologických děl Augustina Zippeho, i z děl dalších josefínských morálních teologů (Ignaz von Fabiani, Franz Fritsch, Joseph Lauber a Wenzel Schanza). Hlavním cílem této kapitoly je ukázat metodickou i obsahovou otevřenost konceptu Augustina Zippeho a dalších josefínských morálních teologů vůči soudobé filosofické diskusi i rozvíjejícímu se biblickému i patristickému bádání. Pátá kapitola blíže analyzuje jádro morálně-teologické koncepce Zippeho. Za hermeneutický klíč posloužil koncept autonomní morálky v kontextu křesťanské víry, který představil ve druhé polovině 20. století Alfons Auer. Vliv Zippeho mravouky je patrný u autorů pozdějších generací (Johannes Michael Sailer, Johannes Baptist von Hirscher). Pozoruhodná a především ve srovnání s díly tehdejšího pražského arcibiskupa...
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Theological Ethics and Culture - The Mystery and Order of God
Eminger, Zdeněk ; Halama, Jindřich (advisor) ; Šrajer, Jindřich (referee) ; Štefan, Jan (referee)
The dissertation deals with the theme of the theology of culture, with special reference to Christian ethics and its demands and expectations in the context of the current ecumenical scene. Its aim is an analytical description of various theological and moral levels of culture, such as its spiritual basis or relationship to the common (social) good. An introductory discourse entitled "The ABC of Culture" provides a more detailed view of those parts of the spiritual riches of culture that are given priority by individual theological schools and their representatives. The chapters on inculturation, the social dimension of society, and the place of Christian freedom in culture refer to the penetration of "academic theology" into the life of specific human communities. The second section of the dissertation consists of studies dealing with the intellectual approaches to the theme to be found in the areas of 1) Catholic theology - e.g. John Paul II, Jacques Maritain, Johan Huizinga, Joseph Ratzinger; 2) Eastern and Orthodox theology - Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin; and 3) Protestant theology - Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, Emil Brunner and H. Richard Niebuhr. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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