Course: The Issue of Tolerance in Church History II

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Course title The Issue of Tolerance in Church History II
Course code KRE/TOCD2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Machálek Vít, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The problem with tolerance in Central Europe at the time of Martin Luther. Western Europe in the period of Reformation. Central Europe from the Peace of Augsburg to the Peace of Westphalia. Central Europe after the Thirty Years' War. Tolerance in the Age of Enlightenment in the Anglo-Saxon world. Tolerance in the Age of Enlightenment in Central Europe. The problem with tolerance in the relations between Christianity and liberalism from the Great French Revolution to the First World War. Modern history of Christian-Jewish relations. Ecumenism. The problem with tolerance between totalitarism and postmodernity.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Methods of individual activities, Work-related activities
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to look at the problems of tolerance and intolerance in the history of Christianity and the West during the period from the Renaissance till the present.
tudents will consider the attitudes of the most significant Modern Age clerical representatives, theologians, and thinkers in regard to the question of tolerance. Students will deepen their understanding of the ways of thinking that formed the basis of intolerance in European and Czech history in the Modern Age.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KRE/TOCD1

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test, Discussion

Credit is received by attendance at lectures.
Recommended literature
  • HOŠEK, P. Na cestě k dialogu. Praha, 2005.
  • KOMÁRKOVÁ, B. Tolerance jako podmínka života. Heršpice, 1999.
  • KUSCHEL, K. J. Spor o Abrahama. Praha, 1997.
  • MOLNÁR, A. a kol. Slovem obnovená. Praha, 1997.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Religious Studies (2013) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer