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2. It's never been better : comments on the current state of the science of religion

Creator:
Wiebe, Donald
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Article
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theology, religious studies, meaning, ideology, postmodernism, science, reductionism, funding, research universities, and Study of Religions
Language:
English
Description:
I have argued in the past that there has been a massive failure of nerve in the study of religion in the context of the modern research university; that it failed to live up to the scientific objectives enunciated for the field in late nineteenth-century European academic communities. The "comments" here on the current state of the science (or sciences) of religion constitute, in part, a kind of informal critical history of the field known as "Religious Studies." I suggest here that the overall development of the field might actually indicate a positive trajectory since its inception in late nineteenth-century Europe. This essay, therefore, may mitigate somewhat my recent claim (with L. H. Martin) that it is highly unlikely that the scientific study of religion will actually some day come to dominance in religious studies departments in our modern universities.
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3. K recepci díla Macieje Kazimierze Sarbiewského v českých zemích a na Slovensku

Creator:
Martinek, Libor
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Article
Subject:
baroko, historismus, barokní literatura, barokní poezie, poeta laureatus, historické vědomí, teologie, filozofie, vývoj estetiky, následovníci, Baroque, Historicism, Baroque literature, Baroque poetry, historical consciousness, theology, philosophy, development of aesthetics, followers, and Slavonic Studies
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Czech and Slovak
Description:
Příspěvek je věnován polskému básníkovi Macieji Kazimierzi Sarbiewskému (1595-1640), jednomu z nejvýznamnějších latinských básníků 17. století a známému literárnímu teoretikovi. V Polsku patřil k nejpopulárnějším autorům před Henrykem Sienkiewiczem. Byl také nazývám sarmatským nebo latinským Horaciem. V Evropě je známý díky svému dílu Lyricorum libri tres. Papež Urban VIII. udělil Sarbiewskému titul poeta laureatus. Sarbiewski byl jezuitským kaplanem ve Vilniusu, odkud byl povolán králem Vladislavem IV. Vasou na královský dvůr. Autor se v příspěvku věnuje i oblibě Sarbiewského u českých a slovenských romantických spisovatelů (K. H. Mácha a C. Zoch). Poté recepci Sarbiewského v českých odborných příručkách a slovnících. and The article deals with Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius, 1595-1640) who was Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics. He was the first Polish poet to become widely celebrated abroad and the most popular Polish author before Henryk Sienkiewicz. He became known as Horationis par ("the peer of Horace") or the Sarmatian Horace and "the last Latin poet". His European fame came out of his first collection of poetry, Lyricorum libri tres (Three Books of Lyrics). An expanded edition, Lyricorum libri IV (Four Books of Lyrics), was so successful in Europe that it was released in 60 editions in different countries. During a stay in Rome, Sarbiewski was crowned poeta laureatus (poet laureate) by Pope Urban VIII. Sarbiewski was a Jesuit priest at Vilnius University and court preacher to Polish King Wladyslaw IV Vasa. The author also deals with the reception of Sarbiewski in Czech and Slovak romantic poetry (K. H. Mácha, C. Zoch) in Czech teachers' and encyclopedic book, too.
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4. Kněžský celibát v pohledu teologů doby osvícenské v českých zemích

Creator:
Pěček, Vít
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
celibacy, priest, Enlightenment, controversy, Catholicism, theology, purity, celibát, kněz, osvícenství, kontroverze, katolicismus, teologie, and čistota
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Czech
Description:
This article looks at the debate on clerical celibacy among Czech theologians during the Enlightenment. Drawing largely on their writings, which in many cases served as textbooks in the training of future priests and thus had a significant impact, it analyses the origins, arguments and course of the debate. Doubts about the future of celibacy first appeared in canon law in the 1770s, conditioned in part by secular factors such as populationism. In the late 1780s clerical celibacy was publicly challenged by influential university theologians such as the church historian Kaspar Royko in Prague and the theologian Josef Lauber in Olomouc, a former Jansenist. Their main argument was the widespread non-compliance by priests and its harmful social consequences. The law also had its defenders (e.g. Franz Christoph Pittroff), whose main argument was the traditional one of the need for purity in the Eucharist. During the 1790s the public controversy about celibacy disappeared; but for many years the discourse on the subject remained strongly influenced by Enlightenment thinking.
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5. Mýtus, biblická exegeze a teologie v katarském křesťanství

Creator:
Zbíral, David
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text/pdf
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Article
Subject:
Catharism, biblical exegesis, theology, myth, legend, rationalization of myth, and Study of Religions
Language:
Czech
Description:
This article summarizes previous debates on the relationship between myth, biblical exegesis and theology in Catharism, and studies the different configurations of these forms of thinking in all extant Cathar texts. In the mid-20th century, the relationship was discussed mostly as a question of the origin and nature of Catharism, understood either as a continuation of Gnostic or Manichean mythology within medieval Europe, or Christian evangelical reformism based primarily on the Scripture. However, myth, biblical exegesis, and theology need not be seen as mutually exclusive, and the interpretation of larger Christian culture now acknowledges the important part myth plays in biblical exegesis and theology. In Cathar Christianity, the relationship of these forms shifts during the 13th century, just as in the larger family of 13th-century Western Christianity it belongs to, but still these forms neither contradict each other nor does one replace the other. Today the question is not which of these forms was earlier or more important in Cathar Christianity but how different extant texts interpret and enrich previous thought using these forms inherited from the wider Christian tradition.
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6. Osvícenské vlivy v pedagogickém díle Jana Valeriána Jirsíka

Creator:
Svoboda, Rudolf
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Subject:
Jirsík, Jan Valerian, 1798-1883, osvícenství, pedagogika, náboženství, teologie, enlightenment, educational science, religion, theology, 8, and 94(437)
Language:
Czech and English
Description:
a1_This paper considers the influence of Enlightenment thinking on the pedagogical works of Jan Valerián Jirsík (1798-1883), who earned a place in Czech history as a priest, theologian, active patriot, education campaigner, pedagogue, writer and not least as the fourth Bishop of České Budějovice (Budweis), an office he held from 1851 until his death. Primarily, it draws on and follows up ideas in the writings of the theologian Ctirad Václav Pospíšil and the church historian Kamila Veverková, who both trace the links between Jirsík the theologist and thinkers associated with Bernard Bolzano. Jirsík’s early writings, however, are as much concerned with pedagogy as they are with theology, and the aim of this study is to discover whether his ideas on education were similarly influenced by Enlightenment thinking. It analyses his views on the subject before 1851, i.e. until he became Bishop of Budweis - specifically in the period 1826-1843, when he was much occupied with questions of education and upbringing. In his years as bishop he devoted little time to literary pursuits. The study concludes that the legacy of the Enlightenment era most certainly played an important part in Jirsík’s deliberations on education. There is, however, a certain progression discernible in his thinking. In the early period, of which Sunday School (1826) is a representative text, we see the influence of contemporary Enlightenment clerical pedagogy as he advocates extending human knowledge through reason in order to improve living conditions. Faith and religion are also factors here, especially in his emphasis on the positive role of God the Creator. In the second period under consideration (1836-43), we find closer parallels between Jirsík’s pedagogical and theological thinking., a2_Within ten years of writing Sunday School, his position had shifted from that of a priest attempting to expand or improve education in the spirit of Enlightenment ecclesiastical pedagogy to that of a theologian (and so-called ‘true’ enlightener) who from theological considerations drew conclusions for the educational process. In Jirsík’s view, Christianity and Enlightenment go hand in hand, serving to elevate human life spiritually as well as materially. For him education means the enlightenment of both soul and reason. Nor does he see any contradiction between faith and rationality. It is evident from his thinking that he was convinced of the need to implement the pedagogical ideal of the Enlightenment: to educate virtuous citizens who were also rational., Rudolf Svoboda., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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7. Osvícenství, teologie a církevní historie

Creator:
Svoboda, Rudolf
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
osvícenství, teologie, církevní dějiny, enlightenment, theology, church history, 8, and 94(437)
Language:
Czech and English
Description:
This study aims to present the problems of the perspective of Catholic theology and Catholic historiography on the Enlightenment. In its first part it attempts to find an answer to the question: is the Church History rather theological or historical discipline? Then it shows some specifics of the Catholic perspective in the Church History discipline before and after the 2nd Vatican Council. In its second part it shows reflection of the problems of Enlightenment in the Catholic theology. In the next part this study dwells on discussion about understanding of Enlightenment in history since 1908 till now. In its last part shows reflection of theological and historical research in the Bohemian area before and after the 2nd Vatican Council., Rudolf Svoboda., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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8. Principia et maiora Thomæ Aquinatis pronuntiata sancte teneantur : doporučování nauky sv. Tomáše Akvinského papežem sv. Piem X.

Creator:
Filip, Štěpán Martin
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text/pdf
Type:
Article
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St. Pius X., St. Thomas Aquinas, magisterium of the Church, breve In præcipuis laudibus, encyclic Pascendi Dominici gregis, motu prorio Sacrorum Antistitum, motu proprio Doctoris Angelici, XXIV Thomistic theses, formation of seminarians, philosophy, theology, modernism, principia et maiora Thomæ Aquinatis pronuntiata, Auxiliary Historical Sciences, and History
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Czech and Latin
Description:
The paper discusses particular documents of St. Pius X (1903–1914) in which, within his efforts to reform the Church (and within the Church particularly to restore the formation of future priests), he recommends the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas: besides notes issued at various occasions, these are breve In præcipuis laudibus (23 January 1904), antimodern encyclic Pascendi Dominici gregis (8 September 1907) with motu proprio Sacrorum Antistitum (1 September 1910) and especially motu proprio Doctoris Angelici (29 June 1914) with XXIV Thomistic theses (27 July 1914) attached.
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9. Rethinking the relationship between the study of religions, theology and religious concerns : a response to some aspects of Wiebe's and Martin's paper

Creator:
Bubík, Tomáš
Format:
text/pdf
Type:
Article
Subject:
study of religions, theology, religious concerns, Central and Eastern Europe, ideology of humanities, politics of education, inter-religious dialogue, and Study of Religions
Language:
English
Description:
This response deals with some aspects of Luther Martin and Donald Wiebe's paper "Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion". The authors think that the human mind in general constantly tends towards religiousness and thus comprehensive scientific inquiry into religion is actually impossible. They argue that "such study is not ever likely to occur in that or any other setting" (p. 9). They also stress that they were deluded in the past and argue that especially (or only) the cognitive approach can help us to elucidate the proclivity towards religiousness. I partly agree with them, particularly that the promotion of "extra-scientific" agendas in Academia is questionable, but I do not see it as such a serious problem. The reduction of the biases to only "religious" agendas is mistaken. The history of the field is a history of diverse "extra-scientific" agendas which change in accordance with social development and prevailing political interests. I present the situation from a central and eastern European point of view. At the same time, I argue that many scientific fields deal with the same issue, even if not to such an extent. This is because religious studies, more than other disciplines, attracts scholars with a special inclination toward religion. I also argue that scholarly results are much more important than "personal" agendas. Also, the aspiration of religious studies as presented by Martin and Wiebe seems to me too idealistic, perhaps utopist and thus unrealizable.
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10. Sbírka kvakerské literatury ve fondu Knihovny AV ČR, v. v. i

Creator:
Kučerová, Markéta
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article, články, journal articles, model:article, and TEXT
Subject:
Historická věda. Pomocné vědy historické. Archivnictví, Vejchoda-Ambros, Miloš, 1905-, Vokrová-Ambrosová, Libuše, 1907-1997, Akademie věd České republiky., Knihovna, kvakeři, teologie, náboženská hnutí, Quakers, theology, religious movements, Velká Británie, Great Britain, Society of Friends, religious studies, book collection, Quaker book printing, Miloš Vejchoda-Ambros, Libuše Ambrosová, Czech Quakers, Quaker book printers, Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., 8, and 930
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Czech
Description:
The article presents the unique collection of Quaker literature in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It comprises 209 books printed between 1648 and 1946, acquired by the married couple Libuše Ambrosová and Miloš Vejchoda-Ambros during their stay in England in 1940-1946., Markéta Kučerová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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