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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Theological anthropology - KSTE436
Title: Teologická antropologie
Form of teaching:  
Guaranteed by: Department of Systematic and Pastoral Theology (26-KSPT)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2025
Duration in semesters: 2
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 10
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:7/0, --- [HS]
summer s.:7/0, Ex [HS]
Capacity: winter:unlimited / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences: critical thinking, data literacy
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: distance
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. PhLic. Vojtěch Novotný, Th.D.
Teacher(s): prof. PhLic. Vojtěch Novotný, Th.D.
Petr Soukal, Ph.D.
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download Soukal Petr - Jak mluvit o dědičném hříchu (KT 2026, č. 16, s. 7).pdf An article on how to speak about original sin today. Petr Soukal, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course in Theological Anthropology introduces students to the mystery of the human person in the light of the “mystery of the Incarnate Word” (GS 22). It explores how humanity’s eschatological future reveals the meaning and purpose of creation, provides the framework for understanding the mystery of the Fall, and opens the way to speak about God’s love as experienced in the gift of grace.
Last update: Soukal Petr, Ph.D. (27.08.2025)
Aim of the course -

Course Objectives:

  • To introduce students to the central themes of theological anthropology (the doctrine of creation, the doctrine of the Fall, and the doctrine of grace);
  • To provide an introduction to the hermeneutical reflection and interpretation of these themes.
Last update: Soukal Petr, Ph.D. (27.08.2025)
Course completion requirements -
See test requirements.
Last update: Novotný Vojtěch, prof. PhLic., Th.D. (30.09.2024)
Literature -

Reading: by mutual agreement, according to the student's linguistic disposition.

Last update: Novotný Vojtěch, prof. PhLic., Th.D. (30.09.2024)
Teaching methods -
Lecture, guided reading, individual study.
Last update: Novotný Vojtěch, prof. PhLic., Th.D. (30.09.2024)
Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme -

The exam is written. The student must demonstrate thorough knowledge of the study texts. He/she will prepare an answer to two questions listed in the course syllabus. He/she will choose them so that each question comes from a different chapter of the syllabus (example: 1.1, 3.4). When preparing the answer, he/she will follow the Rules for the Formal Editing of Academic Written Works. The scope of each answer: exactly 4 pages without the title page. In addition to the form, the work with sources and especially the content conciseness of the answers will be evaluated. Excerpts or simple points are not enough, a coherent text is required. The student formulates the answers themselves, without the use of AI.

This is followed by feedback from the teacher and grading. In case of ambiguities, personal consultation and one additional question from the syllabus.

Last update: Novotný Vojtěch, prof. PhLic., Th.D. (15.09.2025)
Syllabus -

I. Introduction to Theological Anthropology

1. Epistemological foundations for theological reflection on the human person; the place of theological anthropology within systematic theology
2. Principles and hermeneutical approaches of theological thinking in theological anthropology

II. The Beginning, Meaning, and Goal of Creation

3. Classical accounts of the origin of the world
4. The Church’s teaching: the dogma of creation ex nihilo
5. Theological interpretation of creation: meaning and ultimate purpose of the created order
6. Care for creation: ecological responsibility as a task of Christian theology

III. The Human Vocation to Communion with God and the Mystery of the Fall

7. The mystery of human existence within the created world
8. The Fall of humanity: biblical foundations and patristic interpretations (up to the 4th century)
9. The Fall of humanity: development of doctrine from Augustine (5th century) to the Council of Trent (16th century)
10. The dogma of original sin as a challenge for contemporary theology

IV. Grace as the Creative Presence of God’s Love

11. Biblical foundations of the doctrine of grace
12. Historical development of the doctrine of grace
13. Selected topics in the theology of grace

V. Concluding Reflections

14. The “priestly” existence of the human person within creation

Last update: Soukal Petr, Ph.D. (27.08.2025)
Course registration requirements -

Natural intelligence, humility, diligence, and a “completely sincere desire to learn” (Wis 6:17).

Last update: Soukal Petr, Ph.D. (27.08.2025)
 
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