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The Legal Order of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren - History and Present
Csukás, Adam ; Horák, Záboj (advisor) ; Tretera, Jiří Rajmund (referee) ; Přibyl, Stanislav (referee)
The Legal Order of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren - History and Present The aim of this thesis is to gather available sources concerning the legal order of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) since its establishment in 1918 to the present day. The sources used address the legal history of the Protestant Church in Cisleithania from 1848 until the end of World War I. A critical analysis of the sources is carried out to document the development of the church constitution and the orders of the ECCB. The criteria for the elaboration of individual storylines are primarily the historical relevance and the practical applicability of the information regarding the ECCB Strategic Plan of 2019. The thesis consists of an introduction, followed by three parts, and a conclusion. The first part, (1848-1922), comprises four chapters covering the legal history of the Protestant Church in Cisleithania from the revolutionary years 1848/1849 until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of both Czechoslovakia and the ECCB. Particular attention is given to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the church constitution of 1861, the constitutional reform efforts of the Czech-speaking Czech and Moravian Protestants of both confessions (Augsburg and Helvetic), the movement of...
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Church Subsidies and Their Legal Development in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Csukás, Adam ; Horák, Záboj (referee)
Church Subsidies and Their Legal Development in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia The thesis aims to describe the historical background and legal development of natural church subsidies paid by the members of a parish to their priests in the area of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia, with special regard to the late 19th and 20th centuries, up to 1949. Lecticale was a traditional institution of Hungarian customary law, implemented into Czechoslovak law following the declaration of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. This legal institution was continuously adapted to the needs of actual legal practice until it was abolished by the communist regime in 1949, a year after the communist coup d'état of February 1948. It was typically adhered to by the Catholic Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church. As the contemporary awareness of lecticale is limited, the author decided to reveal the elements of the researched legal institution one by one, proceeding from very basic information to the most complicated problems of legal practice. Therefore, the beginning of the thesis deals with references to lecticale in numerous Hungarian church law textbooks. The treatise then moves to the 1880s, when the greatest controversies arose regarding the issue. The next part of the thesis deals with the etymology of the word...
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The Principles of the Presbyterial-Synodical Ecclesiastical Polity
Csukás, Adam ; Tretera, Jiří Rajmund (advisor) ; Horák, Záboj (referee)
The Principles of Synodical-Presbyterial Church Government This work reflects the principles of the synodical-presbyterial church government, which are referred to in the church constitutions of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren and the Reformed Christian Church in Slovakia. The author draws attention to the importance of the principles of church polity in ecclesial life, pointing to their occasional inadequate reflection. In this context, the author points out the introduction of the Führerprinzip in the German Evangelical Church in the 1930s. In addition, he highlights examples of churches that have been able to clearly formulate the principles of church polity, and some of them have even incorporated them into their church law. The author goes on to clarify the basic terminology used in his work, focusing on the naming of Protestant churches in different languages. He deals with the division of churches into families according to the categorization used by the World Council of Churches, paying special attention to the family of United and Uniting churches. He describes five types of these churches, and considering the need to introduce another, a sixth type of United and Uniting churches. Next, he deals with the basic characteristics of Reformed, Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches. The...
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Education in Ecclesiastical Law at Faculties of Theology and Law in the Czech Lands in the Years 1918-1989
Nohel, Petr ; Hrdina, Antonín (advisor) ; Přibyl, Stanislav (referee) ; Szabo, Miloš (referee)
The work deals with the history of teaching religious-legal subjects of theology and law in the Czechlands in the years 1918-1989. The author examines the structure of all subjects thematically related to canon law and describes changes depending on the legislative and historical contexts of individual time periods. The work also maps the roles of different lecturers at universities that have been providing religious-legal subjects. Moreover, the author mentions major publications of those teachers. In its conclusion the thesis presents structured medallions of the teachers mapping their studies, subsequent exposure to individual universities, their publishing and other relevant activities in ecclesiastical structures. Complete lists of religious-legal subjects are then included in separate annexes chronologically grouped separately for each university.
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Search of identity of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (1945 - 1962). Nationwide and Local Perspective.
Beneš, Ladislav ; Spurný, Matěj (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to analyze the process of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren finding its own identity between 1945 and 1962. During this period of time the church had to respond to many types of political pressure. The author will examine various historical sources in one of the church's congregations, ECCB in Pardubice, searching for competing identities and loyalties of the local Christians, including reactions of the church to legal and political regulations of the state. In particular, the author will focus on the local pastor and later professor at the Faculty of Theology, Josef Smolík, who personified both the "common Christians" and the "elites" of ECCB. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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