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This study focuses on the Pseudo-Clementine writings as examples of Jewish-Christian literature between the second and fourth centuries CE. In view of their mutual antagonism and friendship, it interprets them as an atte...

The study is focused on several aspects present in Ambrose’s treatise De paenitentia, namely his ecclesiology with respect to the theology and practice of penance. The primary purpose of De paenitentia was the confront...

In the past eight years, since the election of Francis as the first Latin American pontiff in history, the Church has experienced new manners of being and acting. Even though she has also been in a constant state of aggi...

Book review on Josef Sorett, Black is a Church: Christianity and the Contours of African American Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 239 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-061513-0

This article aims to analyze and synthesize the knowledge pertaining to the various aspects of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Czechoslovak Republic, particularly focusing on their influence on the n...

Czechoslovak Church has not yet been a subject of a detailed study. Recent research has dealt mostly with particular churches built by important Czech modernist architects (Gočár, Janák, Víšek) or with periods of de...

It is evident that despite the originality of the institution of the Catholic Church even its representatives had to reflect in some way then realia and exerted traditions of the antic world. This fact found its reflecti...

The theme of the study is the Eucharist as a sacrifice of Christ and his Mystical Body. In the beginning, the first analogy is stated – the unique and perfect sacrifice of Christ the High Priest on the cross. The autho...

Often, liberation theology’s preferential option for the poor is pushed aside within theological discourses as being too specific, too focused on social problems, to function as a viable theology for the Church as a wh...

The aim of the study is to offer Newman’s original intuitions about the concept of the sensus fidelium, which is of great importance to the Synod for the Synodal Church. The study presents the context and ideas of Newm...

The aim of the study is to show the consequences for the Hungarian Piarist Order stemming from the ecclesiastical reforms of Joseph II. (r. 1765–1790). Both Maria Theresa (r. 1740–1780) and her son, Joseph II wanted ...

This article addresses the question of whether and how the Lutheran Reformation led to a (further) pluralisation of legal systems. Since the beginning of the early modern period, primarily in the course of the 16th centu...

Composing the first Ukrainian Synaxarion (Chetii-Minei), the great Ukrainian theologian, scholar and hagiographer St. Dymytriy Tuptalo (1651–1709) relied on different sources, including Slavonic, Greek, Latin, and Poli...

The aim of the article is to present deeds relating to the foundation of the Altar of the Holy Cross in the cathedral church in Litomyšl. The main source on the topic is an original deed issued by Šimon of Prague, vica...

The article presents an initiative arisen in the milieu of a small evangelical church Unity of Czech Brethren (Brethren Church since 1967). It was a Czech Biblical Work in the town of Kutna Hora which in a short period d...