The theological basis for the charitable activities of the Christian Church. The thesis focuses on the charitable work of the Christian Church today known as Diakonia, characterised as a service of love to others, which is currently considered one of the key, i.e. constitutive elements, of the fundamental structure of the Church. Based on analyses of the relations between theological disciplines, particularly Biblical, systematic theology and Christian social ethics, it identifies the Christian Church's idea of charity as the communion of love in the service of those who suffer. A fundamental defining characteristic of the Diakonia charity is God's love and the structure of the assessment system that unfolds from it that is specific and essential for the Christian Church. Keywords Charitable work, Diakonia, service of love, Christian social ethics, Catholic social teaching

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This dissertation deals with the American Catholic theologian and social thinker Michael Novak, as well as his work, which is a principal and influential contribution to Catholic social teaching. Novak is the main representative of American Catholic Neoconservatism, a stream in Catholic thought, which springs from the specific context of the experience of the American political, economical and cultural arrangement and which started to develop in the USA in connection with the American conservative revolution. Catholic Neoconservatism aims to connect Christian and liberal traditions, and it also tries to rehabilitate the system of Democratic Capitalism newly based on Christian values. Its goal is to influence all areas of Catholic social thought, which, according to Novak, needs to be developed and enriched by non-Europeans, especially from the American experience. He claims that Catholic social thought is inspired too much by Socialism and the one-hundredyear-old tradition of Papal Encyclicas has been significantly marked by a limited Eurocontinental horizon. This dissertation aims to contribute, at least partly, to the Catholic historical revision of values of classical liberalism in light of this American experience. Also Novak´s usage of theological doctrines on behalf of the democratic capitalism is interesting and not forgetable experiment in the area of the theology of terrestrial realities, despite some of its exceptions. Novak is not a great theologian, but he is especially a political scientist and economist. Therefore his theology of Democratic Capitalism should be further developed and enriched by other theologians.

The diploma thesis strives to map and analyze the pastoral care of people with disabilities in the Czech Republic, both theoretically and practically. The theoretical scope of the topic uses primarily scientific literature from the field of neurology, psychology and sociology. In this theoretical part, it does not ignore the social policy of the state, which should help these people. Great emphasis is also placed on biblical and ecclesiastical teachings. Professional literature from the field of special pedagogy and pastoral theology is used as well for analysing the practical aspects of the topic, but mainly it draws from the practical experience of respondents to the questionnaire created in the framework of this thesis. The first two chapters describe physical disabilities from the perspective of neurology and psychology. The third chapter analyses theoretically attitude of society and the state to this issue. The fourth and fifth chapters deal with the question of disability in terms of Bible and church documents. The next chapter maps the social activities and services of charities in the Czech Republic which are provided to people with physical and other types of disabilities. The seventh chapter analyses the practical approach and communication of these people, both by the majority of...

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:20:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Cardonha.pdf: 3960682 bytes, checksum: b0fe5200b55869d7e2fa5e0481fcfad1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-16 / Investigates the reaction of the progressive Catholics against the military dictatorship in Brazil mainly based on official and formerly classified documents currently available at Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo - APESP. This work demonstrates that the progressive sectors of the Catholic Church resisted against the authoritarian state and worked for its moral deligitimation in several ways: politically, with the condemnation of the systematic violation of the Human Rights; ideologically, with the exposition of the totalitarian tendency of the National Security Doctrine; and economically, with critics to a model that stimulated income concentration and social marginalization / A Igreja Católica nos Anos de Chumbo: Resistência e Deslegitimação do Estado Autoritário Brasileiro (1968/1974) é um trabalho de pesquisa e reflexão sobre a ação dos católicos progressistas contra a ditadura militar. A pesquisa sobre a memória da resistência católica foi realizada nos arquivos da repressão política. A análise pretende demonstrar que os setores progressistas da Igreja resistiram e deslegitimaram moralmente o Estado autoritário: no plano político, combatendo a violação sistemática dos Direitos Humanos: no plano ideológico, denunciando o caráter totalitário da Doutrina de Segurança Nacional; e no plano econômico: condenando o modelo concentrador de renda e gerador de marginalização social

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:53:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Cardonha.pdf: 3960682 bytes, checksum: b0fe5200b55869d7e2fa5e0481fcfad1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-16 / Investigates the reaction of the progressive Catholics against the military dictatorship in Brazil mainly based on official and formerly classified documents currently available at Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo - APESP. This work demonstrates that the progressive sectors of the Catholic Church resisted against the authoritarian state and worked for its moral deligitimation in several ways: politically, with the condemnation of the systematic violation of the Human Rights; ideologically, with the exposition of the totalitarian tendency of the National Security Doctrine; and economically, with critics to a model that stimulated income concentration and social marginalization / A Igreja Católica nos Anos de Chumbo: Resistência e Deslegitimação do Estado Autoritário Brasileiro (1968/1974) é um trabalho de pesquisa e reflexão sobre a ação dos católicos progressistas contra a ditadura militar. A pesquisa sobre a memória da resistência católica foi realizada nos arquivos da repressão política. A análise pretende demonstrar que os setores progressistas da Igreja resistiram e deslegitimaram moralmente o Estado autoritário: no plano político, combatendo a violação sistemática dos Direitos Humanos: no plano ideológico, denunciando o caráter totalitário da Doutrina de Segurança Nacional; e no plano econômico: condenando o modelo concentrador de renda e gerador de marginalização social

This thesis is concerned with finding a relationship between the principles of Catholic social teaching and the written views of the Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura party as presented on the party's website. At the beginning of the thesis the reader is briefly introduced to individual principles of Catholic social teaching. For the purposes of this thesis five principles have been chosen which are mentioned in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. These are the principles of human dignity, the common good, universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, and solidarity. Then the reader is acquainted with the basic views of the Freedom and Direct Democracy - Tomio Okamura party (SPD). By way of indicative research on the particular views of SPD, three topics are then formulated, which are most often mentioned by SPD. These consist of the European Union, foreign policy and migration. Comparison of these most frequently mentioned topics with Catholic social teaching and other relevant resources creates a base for further confrontation between Catholic social teaching principles and the views of SPD. Equally important for this confrontation are also other positions of the SPD party relating to particular social topics and also values of truth, freedom, fairness and love, which...

Denna uppsats behandlar den katolska kyrkans syn på grunden för mänskliga rättigheter och religionsfrihet. Idén om mänskliga rättigheter började ta fast form under upplysningen på 1700-talet. Vid den tiden var dock katolska kyrkans syn på de mänskliga rättigheterna inte förenlig med den sekulära uppfattningen. De demokratiska principerna och mänskliga rättigheterna, inklusive religionsfrihet, integrerades i den katolska socialdoktrinen först genom Andra Vatikankonciliet (1962–1965), även kallad Vatikan II. Syftet är dels att undersöka hur den katolska kyrkan argumenterar för mänskliga rättigheter och religionsfriheten efter Vatikan II, dels att analysera relevanta skrifter och kanoniska bestämmelser i jämförelse med FN:s Allmänna förklaring och konventioner om de mänskliga rättigheterna. Uppsatsens tes är att området mänskliga rättigheter är ett tvärvetenskapligt akademiskt fält där den katolska teologin också har relevans i diskussioner kring hur mänskliga rättigheter kan rättfärdigas. För att nå syftet används flera metoder. Genom text- och argumentanalys av skrifter från Vatikan II kan det konstateras att det finns vissa skillnader mellan den katolska kyrkans argumentation för mänskliga rättigheter och de sekulära argumenten. Analysen visar att grunden för mänskliga rättigheter och religionsfrihet enligt katolska kyrkan är den mänskliga personens värdighet. I detta avseende är Jürgen Habermas teori om människans värdighet, som ofta benämns teori om människovärde, relevant att användas som teoretiskt ramverk. En begreppsanalys gällande de kursiverade begreppen görs även i uppsatsen. Som ytterligare metoder används juridisk metod och kanonisk tolkning i rättsavsnittet.  Jag argumenterar för att katolska kyrkans människosyn ger en ökad förståelse för vad religionsfrihet innebär. Med tanke på mångfalden av religioner och traditioner i den postmoderna världen bör teologer även involveras i diskurser om religionsfriheten. Därför föreslår jag att mänskliga rättigheters dimensioner utvidgas till att ta mer hänsyn till teologiska människorättsargument. / This essay deals with the Catholic Church's view of the basis of human rights and freedom of religion. The idea of ​​human rights began to take shape during the Enlightenment in the 18th century. At the time, however, the Catholic Church's view of human rights was inconsistent with secularism. Democratic principles and human rights, including freedom of religion, were first integrated into Catholic social doctrine through the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), also known as Vatican II. The purpose is partly to examine how the Catholic Church argues for human rights and freedom of religion after Vatican II, and partly to analyse relevant writings and canonical provisions in comparison with the UN Universal Declaration and Conventions on Human Rights. The thesis of this essay is that the field of human rights is an interdisciplinary academic field where Catholic theology also has relevance in discussions about how human rights can be justified. To achieve the purposes, several methods are used. Through a text- and argument analysis of writings from Vatican II, it can be stated that there are certain differences between the Catholic Church's arguments for human rights and the secular ones. The analysis shows that the basis of human rights and religious freedom, according to the Catholic Church, is the dignity of the human person. In this respect, Jürgen Habermas' theory of human dignity, often referred to as human worth (människovärde), is relevant to be used as a theoretical framework. A concept analysis regarding the italicized concepts is also done in the essay. As additional methods, legal method and canonical interpretation are used in the legal section. I argue that the Catholic Church's view of human beings gives a greater understanding of what freedom of religion means. Because of the diversity of religions and traditions in the postmodern world, theologians should also be involved in discourses on freedom of religion. Therefore, I propose that dimensions of the human rights be extended to take more account of theological human rights arguments.

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