Alexander Deeg

“I hear a language, I had not known” (Ps 81:5). Finding Words and Discovering the Future of the Church

Ondřej Macek

„Ať přijdou, aby se můj dům naplnil“ (L 14,23): Kostel jako šance

Matěj Hájek

Kdo je vlastně kaplan? Nástin teologické typologie v současném společenském kontextu

Jiří Bochez

Teorie církve

Dávid Cielontko

Spor o Belzebula: analýza jedné synoptické tradice v kritické reflexi

Jan Roskovec

František Žilka (1871–1944)

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Author:

Alexander Deeg

Abstract:

Problems of the Church are always problems of its language. All too often, churches are stuck in their language, remain seated in the coziness of their lingual comfort zones, and live in the idea that they “have” the Gospel and should only think about ways of “distributing” it to those “outside.” This fundamental mistake of a misunderstood concept of “Communication of the Gospel” is analyzed in the paper. The alternative is Luther’s search for a “nova sprach” (new language) or – as it might be called – a dynamic linguistic Em-maus-way of the Church, which expects the event of the Gospel in the dialectics of inside and outside, old and new, tradition and innovation, ritual and creativity

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Deeg, Alexander. “‘I Hear a Language, I Had Not Known’ (Ps 81:5): Finding Words and Discovering the Future of the Church.” Teologická Reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 4–19.

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Author:

Ondřej Macek

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“Make them come in, so that my house may be filled” (Lk 14:23): Church building as a chance

Church pedagogy aims at acquainting various groups of people (respecting their ages or interests) with the inside of the church by means of holistic and experiential learning. Other aims include: Perceiving the church as a place for religious studies; enabling people enter into dialogue with the religious tradition through the church building, through meetings in it and through experience; teaching the Christian alphabet by reading the church inside; discovering the church using all senses; making oneself at home in the church. Church pedagogy may be one of the methods which Churches can use to translate the Christian faith to their contemporaries in the present multicultural society.

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Macek, Ondřej. “‘Ať přijdou, aby se můj dům naplnil’ (L 14,23): kostel jako šance.” Teologická reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 20–29.

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Matěj Hájek

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Who is chaplain after all? Towards a theological typology of chaplaincy in contemporary social-cultural context

The following article is a contribution to a responsible theological reflection on chaplaincy. The operation of chaplains is considered as a specific and intentionally focused way of spiritual ministry. Unlike the pastoral ministry in the church community, the chaplain ministry is located in the institutions of different public services. The spiritual care provided by a concrete chaplain is therefore being created and negotiated in the ongoing dialogue with the concrete social sphere where the very chaplain is active. What theological position brings the chaplain with her towards this vivid dialogue? What is the theological frame in which the chaplain can operate? Following the official mind setting church documents on missiological approach in contemporary society, we formulated four different types of theological perspective on chaplain ministry. The typology was structured with help of a hermeneutical tool brought by H. R. Niebuhr in his classics „Christ and Culture“. Niebuhr’s typology helped to organize and frame the leading 4 different approaches towards mission and chaplaincy. At the end of the day it helps to design a theological scale on which the concrete Christian traditions view the chaplain’s identity and their ministry.

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Hájek, Matěj. “Kdo je vlastně kaplan?: Nástin teologické typologie v současném společenském kontextu.” Teologická reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 30–46.

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Jiří Bochez

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Theory of Church

The article aims to introduce a theory of church as it has evolved in the past two decades mainly in German speaking countries and thus to enable a deeper reflection of contemporary issues discussed in the Czech churches. They are becoming more and more independent of the Czech state and are facing the necessity of rediscover-ing their identities and missions as well as are forced to rationalize their resources in order to survive. Theory of church is a contemporary scientific discipline that tries to incorpo-rate insights of sociology and economy into the field of practical theology and to reinforce the cooperation between the church leadership on the one side and the academic research on the other.

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Bochez, Jiří. “Teorie církve.” Teologická reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 47–63.

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Author:

Dávid Cielontko

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The Beelzebul controversy: Analysis of one synoptic tradition in a critical reflection

The article offers an analysis of the synoptic tradition of the Beelzebul controversy, which is preserved in two independent versions in Mark and Q. The analysis reflects some recent methodological impulses from orality and (social) memory studies that offer possible corrections of the theoretical assumptions about the synoptic tradition. The article focus-es on the particular meanings of this tradition in the specific literary representations and on the process of reception. Mark and Q offer two forms of textualization of an oral tradition that their authors creatively embedded into their literary productions. Matthew, in turn, combines the content of both of them and places them within his own compositional framework. This process reflects a conservative appreciation of the received tradition as well as the creative freedom of the individual authors to locate the tradition in new literary and narrative contexts. The article concludes with a brief reflection of the possibilities and limitations of exploring the synoptic tradition and studying the historical Jesus.

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Cielontko, Dávid. “Spor o Belzebula: Analýza jedné synoptické tradice v kritické reflexi.” Teologická reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 64–89.

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Author:

Jan Roskovec

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František Žilka (1871–1944)

At the occasion of the 150 birth anniversary of the first teacher of New Testament studies at the protestant theological faculty in Prague, his contribution to the newly constituted faculty and church is recalled. Žilka followed the call to become a faculty professor after some 23 years in the service of a church minister, and with a systematic plan of basic publications he laid the foundations of the New Testament studies. A major achievement of lasting value is his modern translation of the New Testament, he is also remebered as a learned and both gentle and determined proponent of liberal protestantism in the Czech church environment.

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Roskovec, Jan. “František Žilka (1871-1944).” Teologická reflexe, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 90–98.

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https://doi.org/10.14712/27880796.2021.1.6

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