Zachovat kontinuitu evangelické teologie – za jakou cenu? Příběh Komenského evangelické bohoslovecké fakulty v letech tzv. normalizace

• Authors: Morée Peter

Title variants

Maintaining the Continuity of Evangelical Theology – But at What Cost?: The Story of Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty in the Years of ‘Normalisation’

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study focuses on the ‘normalisation’ of the Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty in Prague. The author argues that it was undertaken here in a different manner than at other academic institu tions. This is particularly evident in the context of turnover, insofar as no changes were made to the party faithful [kádr] who made up the theological faculty after 1969. As a consequence, the faculty came to act as proxies of the regime’s normalisation policy. The author claims moreover that it was the students who most vocally opposed the changes made under normalisation, at least until 1974, when they protested against the expulsion of several parish priests from church services. For several of the protesters, this resulted in their own expulsion from the department. The decision to do so was made by government authorities, but its implementation was carried out by faculty adminis trators – that is to say, by professors who had been committed to the process of democratisation up to 1968, but who now called for obedience to the normalisation regime. Inevitably, such behaviour led to their discrediting and the weakening of their authority in evangelical circles. Meanwhile, these same members of the theology faculty emphasized that socialist society is a better guarantor of justice than the capitalist establishment, a position which deepened the crisis in the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren and undermined the relevancy of the faculty in the eyes of their students.

Keywords

CS

Evangelická církev; Evangelická teologická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy; Nová orientace; teologie; státní manipulace; studentská opozice; konformismus pedagogů

EN

Evangelical Church; Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University; New orientation; theology; state manipulation; student opposition; conformism of teachers

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 35
• Pages: 95-104

Contributors

author

Morée Peter

• Evangelická teologická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Katedra církevních dějin

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366680.2020.3.7