Annotation
This course deepens the knowledge of global (primarily European) history of church and theology acquired through the individual study of text books and other literature. Therefore it is not confined to an overview of church history from the early to the latest period, but dependent on the possibilities can rather be compared to research courses which by way of indepth case studies help to understand and interpret details of general issues concerning both sources as well as the current academic debate about it.
The individual themes of the course will therefore be modified and selected from various periods and aspects of church history (including Czech church history, as far as it will be studies in a comparative perspective). The following larger themes have priority:
A) The early church as a shared foundation in the development of Christianity in all its branches (including the reception of patristic traditions in later times).
B) The medieval church as a shared foundation for Christian traditions in the West.
C) The Reformation as an defining turning point in the development of Christian churches of the European
West and as a foundation of protestantism.
D) Modern church hirstory as the genesis of the current state of Christianity.