Course: Modernism and Antimodernism in the Catholic Church

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Course title Modernism and Antimodernism in the Catholic Church
Course code KCD/MAKC
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jonová Jitka, doc. PhDr. Th.D.
Course content
The situation of the Catholic Church in the half of the 19th century. The publication of the encyclical Quanta cura a Syllabus - a prologue of the First Vatican Council? Catholic theologians or modernists? Schell, Loisy and others. The crisis of Modernism: "Lamentabili" (July 1907) and ?Pascendi? (September 1907). "Sodalitium Pianum" - "La Sapiniere". The influence of Modernism in the Czech lands: the Czech Catholic Modernism. The unity of the Catholic clergy. The establishment of the Czechoslovak Church. "Modernization" of the Catholic Church - the Second Vatican Council. The cancellation of the index and the anti-modernist oath: "Nowadays we will better secure the protection of faith by supporting good theology."

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this seminar is to enable students to acquire at least basic orientation in the problems of modernism and anti-modernism in the Catholic Church (particular attention is paid to the problems of the Czech Catholic Modernism). Students will be led to acquire work with historical sources and to be able to assess them critically.
Students should learn on the base of critical work with texts to be able to understand the continuity, complexity, and relativity of the historical development of modernism and antimodernism in the history of the Church and to be able to form their own judgement on this problem.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Seminar Work

Active preparation for individual lectures, work with sources, written assignment in the extent of 10-15 pages.
Recommended literature
  • Marek, Pavel. (1999). Apologetové nebo kacíři?. Rosice u Brna.
  • Marek, Pavel; Červený, Vladimír; Lach, Jiří. (2000). Od katolické moderny k českému církevnímu rozkolu. Rosice u Brna.
  • Smolík, Václav. (1911). O učení modernistův.. Praha.
  • Šmíd, Marek. (2007). Masaryk a česká katolická moderna. Brno.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology Study plan (Version): Catholic Theology (2) Category: Philosophy, theology 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer