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Ideals of Early Church in the Course of History (until 13th Century)
Török, Dan ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eva (referee) ; Hlaváček, Petr (referee)
The thesis is dealing with the ideals of the primitive Church throughout the history of the Church up to the 13th century. It seeks to identify and reconstruct the ideals of the primitive Church, their development in the following centuries, and the partial forms of relevant ideals that became more generally established. Beyond the general ideal of 'following Christ', it identifies three specific forms of primitive Church ideals: the missionary ideal, the martyr ideal and the ideal of the Church servant. It also attempts to explain the causes and patterns of the development of these ideals. It confirms the understanding of the history of ancient and medieval Christianity as a process in which developments are determined not only by the current spiritual, political, social or economic context, but also by the constant engagement with earlier concepts. In doing so, it seeks to determine to what extent and in what ways later ideals were shaped by the model of the early church and whether the early church period can indeed be considered formative for later Christian ideals. It assesses how faithful the proclaimed returns to this model were, and how the persons shaping later forms of these ideals 'dealt' with this model.
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