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The study aims to clarify how widespread and to what depth Scheeben’s dogmatic‑theologian legacy affected Czech Catholic theologians from 1948 up until the present. The research reveals that awareness of the person and the work of the German professor has declined. We make reference to a decade of authors who referred to Scheeben’s books. A novum represents four translations of parts of his work into Czech and Slovak. The most frequent themes were the Holy Spirit and grace, Sacramentology, while some authors touch on Trinitology, especially connected to spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to clarify how widespread and to what depth Scheeben's dogmatic-theologian legacy affected Czech Catholic Theologians between the years 1918 and 1948. The research indicates that there was a wide awareness of both the person and the work of the German Professor among clergy as well as laity. We name nearly thirty authors who referred to Scheeben's books. The most frequent themes were Ecclesiology, the Holy Spirit and grace, Sacramentology, and some authors touch on Trinitology, especially connected to spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point of this study is even the still appearing accusations of satanism directed at Free Masons. In the two first parts of the study, the authors focus on the appearance of the words "Satan" and "satanism" in the internal periodicals of Czechoslovak Free Masons during the period of the First Republic. These appearances are nearly always merely a defense against such accusations, often coming from the secular press. In the third part, the authors discuss various organisations which at first might look like Free Masons, but in fact have no connection with regular Free Masons. In these cases, certain forms of satanism and occultism can sometimes exist. The conclusion of the article is based on previous research and there are a number of other arguments: regular Free Masons and satanism are two concepts that we should never connect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study follows up on the previous article about the Christological titles and Christ's magisterial office treated in the main writings of the German theologian. The aim of this study is to put Christ's priestly office into the context of Scheeben's soteriological reflection, to present the main characteristics of the office, to draw attention to the sacrifice on the Cross as the central function of Christ's priesthood and, finally, point out the Trinitarian foundation of Jesus's sacrifice. Christ's high-priesthood, with its climax in the sacrifice of the Cross, can be rightly considered as crucial to understanding Scheeben's rich and, for his time, innovative soteriology in which the main mysteries of faith are connected. In Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross, salvation as deification culminates. Therefore, the Cross is not only a propitiatory but also a deifying, glorifying and eucharistic sacrifice. Here, the author's own sacrificial theory is made evident. The few shortcomings of Scheeben's reflection have to be understood in the context of his time. The theologian emphasises the hierarchical aspect of Christ's priesthood and does not explore the thought that Jesus's life is also a realisation of his self-giving to others in his obedience to the Father. Christ's sacrifice has its archetype in the life of the Trinity and is an invitation for a Christian to partake in divine relationships. Scheeben underlines the presence of the Holy Spirit both in Christ's sacrifice and in the living out of this mystery on the Christian life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, discussing the way metaphysics and Christology relate to each other, we will attempt to shed the light on the problem of the ontological mediation of the "whole truth" of Jesus Christ. Our argument will be developed in dialogue with selected Christological proposals of German-speaking Catholic theology of the second half of the twentieth century (Rahner, Balthasar, Kasper, Hünermann) and, above all, with Trinitarian-ontological and Trinitarian-Christological approach of Klaus Hemmerle (1929-1994). Hemmerle's most well-known essay "Theses for a Trinitarian Ontology" (Thesen zu einer trinitarischen Ontologie) deals with the problem of new genuinely Christian Trinitarian ontology. This simultaneously theological and philosophical approach could help us articulate the "whole truth" of Jesus Christ in a new, convincing manner. In conclusion, following Hemmerle, we will suggest where Christology becomes absolutely indispensable in relation to ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theme is processed by Catholic theologian because the question of Free Masons is connected in the Catholic world frequently with a false presumption, a superstition, that Regular Free Masons are Satanists. Combating superstition is indeed the task of a theologian. In the first and preparative part of this study, the author presents the most important facts from the history of Regular Free Masons in the world and in Czech history. In the second and scientific contributive part, the author analyses the Masaryk's texts which are dedicated to the issue of Free Masons in their chronological succession. In the conclusion, the author states, that T. G. Masaryk was never a Free Mason, and clarifies his relationship to this organization as diplomatic respect connected with combat for the liberty of conscience and democracy. The relationship between Catholics and Regular Free Masons should take the form of interreligious or ecumenical dialogues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a positive evaluation of Vatican II and taking into account the long period over which the Council has been received, the present study examines certain conciliar documents that have had the greatest influence on the renewal of Catholic theology, in particular its methodology. First, the article underlines how the Council has evolved as a "laboratory" of renewed theology. It consequently examines the key text of the Council's renewal programme: point 16 from the decree Optatam totius. Finally, it highlights the renewal impulses present in numbers 11 and 17 of the Unitatis redintegratio decree. The analyses of the idea of hierarchia veritatum (UR 11) are aimed at demonstrating how the Council's most decisive contribution to the renewal of theology consisted of proposing a hermeneutics that was rethought in the light of the Trinitarian Revelation of God Love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces and reflects upon methodological merits of the author's long-standing work on a book dedicated to the topic of Czech Catholic theology's reaction from 1850 to 1950 to the challenges posed by natural science in the world-wide and interdisciplinary context. It is demonstrated that there is no tension on the axis theology vs. natural science, but on the axis theistic vs. atheistic world-view. The author rejects ideologisation of theology and natural science. In theology, this topic is in the competence of fundamental theology, where a new discipline of "theology of natural science" should be established. Therefore, it should be integrated into dogmatic theology as well, esp. to the treatise on God the Creator and on the qualities of the Triune Creature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]