Augusta's Umění práce. On the Intellectual Background and the Addressee of the Practical Theological Treatise

Abstract

The study demonstrates that the intellectual roots of Augusta's treatise Umění práce díla Páně služebného [The Art of Servant Work on the Work of the Lord] should be sought in in the first half of the 1540s. It proposes a new surmise that it could have been written in 1550 to Jakub Bílek in order to deepen his practical-theological education.

Keywords

• Jan Augusta
• practical theology
• the Unity of the Brethren
• Jakub Bílek