Practical Theology - Ocassional Services - RETA6034

• Title: PTPV3-Practical Theology - Ocassional Services
• Guaranteed by: Department of Practical Theology (27-PT)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• 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
• Guarantor: doc. Tabita Landová, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : RETA6100

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Eliška Vančová (01.06.2020)

The course introduces students to the theory of occasional services. It deals with the general questions of rituals as
well as biblical, theological, historical, liturgical, catechetical and issues of occasional services – especially
baptism, confirmation, wedding, funeral, ordination and installation.
The structure of the course:
1. Occasional services in the post-secular time; the theory of occasional services; the theory of rituals
2. The baptism in the New Testament perspective; the development of the baptismal liturgy from the time of the
Early church until the Reformation
3. The baptism in the current theological debate: a sacrament, a confession of faith or a rite of passage?
4. Pastoral and catechetical aspects of baptism; the baptismal liturgy and the sermon
5. Confirmation – the history, theological significance, preparation and celebration
6. The concept of death, dying and life everlasting in the Bible, Reformation and current theology
7. The history of Christian funerals
8. The current Protestant funeral services, the funeral sermon, pastoral care of the bereaved
9. The marriage in the biblical perspective; the history of wedding ceremonies; the marriage and wedding in the
Reformation
10. The current theology and liturgy of the wedding ceremonies in Protestantism
11. Pastoral aspects of wedding ceremonies and open issues (the ecumenical wedding, the blessing of the
same-sex couples, the blessing of the divorced etc.)
12. Ordination and installation

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Eliška Vančová (01.06.2020)

BELL C. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-19-973362-0

Book of Occasional Services. Presbyterian Church (USA). Louisvile, Kentucky: Geneva Press, 1999. ISBN 0-664-50098-6

BRADSHAW P., MELLOH J. Foundations in Ritual studies. A Reader for Students of Christian Worship, ed, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2007. ISBN 0-8010-3499-X

GRIMES R. L. Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN 0-520-21533-8

GRIMES R. L. Marrying & burying: rites of passage in a man's live. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8133-2459-9

GRIMES R. L. The craft of ritual studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-530142-7

JOHNSON M. E. The rites of Christian initiation: their evolution and interpretation. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, (2)2007. ISBN 978-0-8146-6215-1

TURNER V. W. The Ritual Process: Structure and anti-structure. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997. ISBN 0-202-01190-9