Christianity and Contemporary Culture - KVAR135

• Title: Christianity and Contemporary Culture
• Guaranteed by: Department of Systematic and Pastoral Theology (26-KSPT)
• Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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: Martin Kočí, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Martin Kočí, Ph.D. (23.08.2016)

The course focuses on the present-day situation of Christianity. Culturally, we find ourselves after Christendom, in a secular society where traditional religions loses its dominant position. Philosophically, we have experienced the end of metaphysics and the overcoming of onto-theology. The so-called theological turns in contemporary continental philosophy reconsider Christian issues against this background. We will look at the key challenges of Christianity in a contemporary postmodern context.

Aim of the course

Last update: Martin Kočí, Ph.D. (08.09.2016)

The main aim of this course is two-fold: the introduction to possible meanings of postmodernism and the intorduction to the (re)turn of the religious, alternativelly called the theological turn, in a postmodern context.

Literature

Last update: Martin Kočí, Ph.D. (08.09.2016)

We will read and interpret selected authors  and their texts on the topics of postmodern conditions and religion in a postmodern. Each session will be devoted to one particualr author and one text.

 

Textbook:

Boeve, Lieven. Interrupting Tradition: An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context. Leuven: Peeters, 2003.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Martin Kočí, Ph.D. (08.09.2016)

There will be an oral examination (open book).