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Prayer: The Role, Place and Significance of Prayer in the Lives of Members of the Christian Community
Žilková, Miriam ; Beneš, Ladislav (advisor) ; Janečková, Hana (referee)
The thesis, "Prayer: The Role, Place and Significance of Prayer in the Lives of Members of the Christian Community" deals with the topics outlined in its title. It is examined from the standpoint which understands prayer in its Biblical context, as well as how it has been interpreted by the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren tradition. The core of the thesis is made up of qualitative research. The goal of the research is to discover how prayer is perceived by believers within a particular Christian community: what place prayer occupies in their lives, what shapes it, what it contributes to them and, at the same time, how they perceive prayer and what kind of meaning corporate prayer has for them. Five deep, semi-structured conversations with research participants helped to achieve the goal of the thesis. The results of the qualitative analyses are presented in several chapters, of which four main chapters contain (1) the benefits of prayer in understanding oneself, and (2) in understanding and perceiving God, (3) prayer as a tool for service, and (4) benefits and deficits connected with prayer. The concluding chapters then summarize the results found in the answers to the survey questions, and further on there is a discussion presented on the understanding of prayer as perceived through the lens...
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Pastoral care of the elderly persons after the Second Vatican Council
BALKOVÁ, Magdaléna
The thesis deals with the possibilites of pastoral care of the elderly and attempts to outline its significance for an elderly persob. It also emphasizes that pastral care may be a way how to help old people to consider their age as decent. Spiritual needs of seniors can also be better met through the pastoral care. By chosen ecclesiastical documents, the thesis also tries to demonstrate how the Church maintain the pastoral care of seniors, however the rality is often different.
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Marian Kuffa and His Approach to People in Need
Tulejová, Ingrid ; Martinek, Michael (advisor) ; Kaplánek, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Marian Kuffa's approach to people in need. The first part of the thesis deals with Marian Kuffa's life, childhood, influence of his family in forming his personality, his later decision to become a priest and the beginning of his social activities in Zakovce, Slovakia. The second part of the thesis analyzes the most common causes of social exclusion, especially from Marian Kuffa's point of view. Further, the author describes life of people in need in common therapeutic communities and pays special attention to everyday life in the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Zakovce, Slovakia and its facilities. The focus is on the specific approach of Marian Kuffa to the resocialization process of the socially excluded people. In the last part, both the common and Kuffa's approaches are analyzed and compared, the pros and cons of both are stated.
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Pastoral care for homeless people
FERDANOVÁ, Michaela
The work deals with pastoral care for the non-prisoners in the asylum house of St. Pavel. The theoretical part deals with issues of homelessness, pastoral work in the broader and closer sense of the word, the outlines of the pastoral milion of the church with reference to the Bible, social encyclicals, but fundamentally centering the excerpt of the Second Vatican Council, especially the constitution of Gaudium et Spes. The purpose of the work has to analyze pastoralism as a spiritual master for homeless people visiting the asylum house of St. Pavel. The partial results are focused on the area of personal life, street life and the spiritual life of homeless people visiting the asylum house of St. Pavel. Qualitative research techniques have been applied in the analyses of interwievs with homeless persons.
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Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Czech Health Care
Bibrová, Monika ; Martinek, Michael (advisor) ; Křišťan, Alois (referee)
Bachelor thesis Pastoral and Spiritual Care in Czech Health Care deals with situation of pastoral movement in health department. The goal of the thesis is to find out how is spiritual and pastoral care mediated and provided in chosen health institution. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with human dimensions of bio-psycho-social-spiritual model. The second chapter is focused on pastoral care and spirituality and its roots and understanding in modern times. The third chapter involve profession of chaplains in health care and pastoral workers, the legislative, their education and competencies, code of ethics, comparism with other countries. Chapter also includes information about organizations which are connected with chaplains in health care in Czech republic and in Europe. The forth chapter is focused on actual health institution, especially in Military hospital Olomouc as an example where is provided pastoral care. Chapter also includes information about pastoral care in Olomouc and in Olomouc region.
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Pastoral care at the facilities of The Diaconia of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
Kazmířová, Jitka ; Beneš, Ladislav (advisor) ; Janečková, Hana (referee)
This work deals with pastoral care at the facilities of The Diaconia of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (DECCB) with a focus on residential facilities for the elderly. It brings a closer look into the organization DECCB, its history and organizational culture, it summarizes the current knowledge of elderly age. Attention is paid to communication with seniors as well as to residence facilities for the elderly and to spiritual needs in elderly age. The practical part of the thesis presents the results of qualitative research carried out among pastoral workers who work in the residential homes for elderly people. The research deals with the offer of pastoral care in homes, specific questions within individual pastoral care of the elderly, and also personal requirements of the pastoral worker.
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Legal regulation of pastoral care in civil aviation
Disman, Jakub Jan ; Szabo, Miloš (advisor) ; Hrdina, Antonín (referee)
The thesis examines the regulation of pastoral care in the sector of civil aviation by the laws of the Roman Catholic Church (Latin Church). The general part first describes the theological reasons for special pastoral care, as well as the inception and development of its institutional organisation. The core of the general part of the thesis consists of identifying and interpreting the relevant legal standards of the Roman Catholic Church's (Latin Church's) general canon law. Attention is devoted in particular to the possibilities of organisational arrangement, the issue of airport chapels, their canonical status and use, individuals providing pastoral care, the specific issues of communicatio in sacris and the possibility of regulation by particular law. The special part of the thesis describes how pastoral care in civil aviation is organised in selected European Union member states and how it may be modified by particular law. Keywords Canon law, particular law, pastoral care, civil aviation, airport, chaplain, airport chaplaincy.
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The use of the Bible in pastoral work with ill people
Halámková, Miriam ; Martinek, Michael (advisor) ; Heryán, Ladislav (referee)
The aim of this thesis titled "The use of the Bible in pastoral work with ill people" is to explore the ways how this fundamental book of Christianity can be used in pastoral work with ill people. In the first chapter, there are defined general pastoral care, its meaning and the care of ill people. Futhermore, the ill person as an object on which is this care focused, his needs and some specifics of conversation with such a person and also a person accompanying the ill as the one who provides the care. The second chapter deals with the pastoral theme in the Bible. In the times of the Old Testament the shepherd was one of the most inferior professions. Nevertheless, it is given as an example for the behavior of the spiritual leader to the people of whom he cares about. In some books of the Bible there is described how a shepherd should behave to his flock. In the New Testament then it is spoken of Jesus Christ as the good shepherd who takes care of his sheep, which represent individuals in the church. The chapter provides some inspirations in Christ's behavior for today's pastoral work with ill people. The third chapter is devoted to a description of the selected options of the use of the Bible in pastoral work with the sick. These include personal approach to accompanying to it, reading stories, but...
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Pastoral care, or persuasion? The influence of church leaders and their control of clergy and believers. Research of religiosity, communication strategies of priest and their image in letters in the late 19th and early 20th Century
Pavlíček, Tomáš ; Velek, Luboš (advisor) ; Fasora, Lukáš (referee) ; Hanuš, Jiří (referee)
Pastoral care, or persuasion? The influence of church leaders and their control of clergy and believers. Research of religiosity, communication strategies of priests and their image in letters in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tomáš W. Pavlíček SUMMARY The author of the Ph.D. thesis examines the religious culture in Bohemia in the late 19th century. Contrary to the concept of secularization and the prevalent opinion about an extraordinary decline of religiosity in the Czech society, he attempts to explain the interdependence of social and religious changes in the modern times. Within the sociological concept of secularization and disenchantment of the world, the author focuses on three phenomena: the vocation of a priest, religious practices and conversion, which he treats as religious concepts and at the same time applies them in historical research. The biggest part of the thesis is devoted to the first object of the research - the attitude of a priest towards his vocation, as the clergy is the agent of religious change. The thesis contributes to the current discussions about the relationship of the church and the state and the role of clergy in the society. The main questions are: What is the role of a priest in the religious changes? In what way or under what circumstances does a person get the...
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