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The Grace in Confession of St. Augustine
Löffelmannová, Lada ; Houkal, Jan (advisor) ; Vopřada, David (referee)
The aim of this work is to outline Augustine's analysis of the doctrine of grace in his autobiographical work, Confessions and subsequently, to estimate the benefits of the concept of manifestations of grace in Confessions for the life of the Christian at the present time. In the first part, the socio-historical background of St. Augustine's life will be discussed followed by his biography and then will follow a brief treatise on Augustine's doctrine of grace. The second part introduces an outline of Augustine's Confessions. There will be a description of the work as a theological autobiography, its structure and its content. In the third part, the concept of manifestations of grace in Confessions will be elaborated, which will be followed by a reflection on the contribution of this concept to Christian life at present. Keywords grace, sin, St. Augustine, Confessions, spiritual life, present
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Theme of "night" in John of the Cross and in the current spirituality
Andil, Jan ; Červenková, Denisa (advisor) ; Bouma, David (referee)
This thesis deals with the theme of the dark night in the work of St. John of the Cross and its influence on the formation of contemporary spiritual authors. Firstly, it focuses on the Spanish Carmelite mystic, John of the Cross social and biographical facts. These provide background to John's spiritual formation and without them the symbol of the dark night loses its historical context. This is followed by a list and brief description of the key works of John of the Cross. Of these texts, the dark night motif is dealt with in "Ascent of Mount Carmel" and "Dark Night," which constitute two aspects of a single journey leading to union with God. We encounter the dark night motive itself in the third chapter. First, we look at the dark night as described by John from the Cross. Then we focus on the symbolism of the dark night in the saint's work, its articulation and outcome. The last chapter introduces us to the view of contemporary spiritual authors, namely Thomas H. Greene, Thomas Halik, Iain Matthew, Gerald G. May, and Wilfrid Stinissen on the dark night theme.
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The Phenomenon of Scouting from Philosphical Perspective
Horáčková, Nikol ; Marek, Jakub (advisor) ; Synek, Stanislav (referee)
The presented historical-philosophical diploma thesis depicts the scouting phenomenon, which demands a specific type of morality and produces specific individuality. We interpret a scout human through the following themes: the personˈs relation to nature and to God. We will demonstrate that contact with nature is closely related to the demand placed on versatile personality development in the sense of the Ancient Greek term kalokagathia. Using the writings of J. J. Rousseau, E. T. Seton and H. Thoreau, we will focus on an idealized form of the return to nature. We will further delve into scoutsˈ attitudes towards the first Scouting principle: Duty to God. Last, but not least, we will demonstrate that only mature consciences establish free and responsible action. This action is, however, conditioned by a dialogue with a higher force. A scout human is therefore defined by both; their specific attitude to nature and their acknowledgement of spiritual life. Only a life in harmony with those two constants leads scouts towards meaningful humanity.
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Selected religious categories in imagines of people with intellectual disability
Koubská, Soňa ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
The thesis interprets and analysies the results of the explorational survey, which deals how people with intellectual diabilities reflect on sellected religious terms. The targert of this thesis is to chart the opinions, definitions and attituteds of the people with intellectual disabilities to the sellected religious categories. The theoritical part of the thesis deals not only of problems of spiritual life, meetings, dialogues and interwies with people with intellectual disabilities but solves their specific qualities and their role in the catholic community too. The exploration part presents two researches - with worshippers people with intellectual disabilities and worshippers people without disabilities. In the end of the thesis the explorational survey definates differences beetween both groups. The thesis use the method of the qualititive research, concretely the mothod of the semistructured interview and the method of the group discussion.
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Spiritual and cultural life in the Terezin ghetto 1941-1945
Kunrtová, Kristýna ; Moree, Pieter (advisor) ; Trusina, Šimon (referee)
This disertation is entiteled by "Spiritual and cultural life in the Terezin ghetto 1941 - 1945". The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first part persues to a short introduction of a historical context which lead to formation of the ghetto. The next chapter deals with the Terezin ghetto. There is mentioned a few curcumstances of creation of it, living conditions, which were in it and also a nazi propaganda. The third part is followed up with the spitirual life in ghetto, how it all had been practised and there is also an effort to define a meaning of the spiritual life for people in the ghetto. The last chapter deals with the cultural life, which were developed in the Terezin ghetto. There is described how the cultural life in Terezin had started and also the greatest pieces of art, which were created on a ground of the ghetto. The chosed metodology for this disertation is an analyse of documentations which are preserved after survivors and then the analyse of professional literature which were written about a topic of this thesis.
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(Un)familiarity with Christianity and its relation to spiritual life
Heissler, Radek ; Chrz, Vladimír (advisor) ; Lukavská, Kateřina (referee)
ANNOTATION: The bachelor thesis focuses on the relation between knowledge of Christianity (as a religion most relevant for Czech republic) and the depth of spiritual life. In the theoretical part, the relevance and knowledge of Christianity are examined, also the problem of the spiritual life, spirituality and religiosity from the psychological and theological point of view, and also their growth. The empirical part focuses on the constuction and statistical characteristics of the questionnaire of spiritual life and the test of knowledge of Christianity. Their results, collected data, hypotheses and research problem (relationship between spirituality and knowledge) are analyzed and interpretated. KEYWORDS: Christianity, spirituality, religion, spiritual life, knowledge
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Edith Stein and Prayer
Černá, Zuzana ; Lachmanová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Bartůšková, Ludmila (referee)
Edith Stein's prayer: Edith Stein, a philosopher of Jewish origin with religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a saint and patron of Europe, belongs to the most important personalities of the 20th century. In her eventful life she passed through various periods of her relationship to God and prayer, and finally she offered her life for peace and for her nation. Her prayers in all the periods of her life may be an encouragement for those who search for truth. Keywords prayer, search for truth, sacrifice, carmelite spirituality, intercession
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Religious literacy
Kaucká, Jitka ; Opatrný, Aleš (advisor) ; Kuźniar, Mariusz (referee)
The Diploma thesis "Religious Literacy" aims to map and define a new concept of the religious literacy, to describe the desirable religious literacy depending on the age and to state a basic overview of the elements that it generates. The thesis involves the religious literacy in the field of Catholic Christianity. First, it deals with the concept of literacy in general; it is defined by the levels, types, key factors and aspects of the assessment. In addition, the thesis talks about the cultural literacy, about the education as its forming and the relationship between the culture and Christianity. Then, using the concepts of general and cultural literacy, the definition of religious literacy follows. Religious literacy is defined in the thesis of two angles, which are interconnected, ie in terms of knowledge and practice. The religious literacy is discussed in both areas in the different age periods - in childhood, youth and adulthood. For each age group the appropriate incentives of the development of literacy and the activities in parish life are characterized. Key words: literacy, child, young people, adults, spiritual life, religious knowledge.
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