Caritas et veritas, 2015 (vol. 5), issue 2

Editorial

Roman Míčka

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):5  

Nemocniční kaplan v dnešní nemocnici

Martin Hrbek

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):202-203  

O nemocničním kaplanství

Jana Maryšková

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):7-9  

Hospital Chaplaincy in Half-Time

Jana Maryšková

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):22-34 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.028  

The Christian churches, aware of their mission to serve persons in need, provide spiritual service, among others, in the army, the prison service and the police, and in the past few years also in the health care system. Beside army chaplains and prison chaplains, hospital chaplains are also becoming common. But the service of hospital chaplains as yet lacks the necessary legislative framework and legal grounding. The prepared law on non-medical workers should therefore secure an appropriate position to prison chaplains among other workers in health care, as it is in case of their colleagues in the army or the prison service.

Spiritual Care of the Ill and the Dying in First Pastoral Theology Textbooks (Rautenstrauch, Giftschütz, Chládek, Stach)

Zdeněk Duda

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):48-61 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.030  

The paper addresses one of the historic forms of pastoral care of the ill and the dying. It focuses on the end of the 18th century, when under the influence of Jansenist-enlightened ideas an important reform of theological study was carried out and pastoral theology was introduced as a university discipline, and when pastoral care of the ill and the dying as spiritual care of the ill came to be presented as one of the most significant and important sphere of the activities of the spiritual shepherd as the only subject of pastoral care. The aim of the paper is to describe the basic points of departure, procedures and form of spiritual care of the ill...

Contribution of Bishops of České Budějovice to Care of the Ill in their Town of Residence in 1785-1883

Rudolf Svoboda

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):69-75 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.032  

The study deals with the concern of the first four bishops of České Budějovice - Jan Prokop Schaaffgotsche, Arnošt Konstantin Růžička, Josef Ondřej Lindauer and Jan Valerián Jirsík - for the ill in 1785-1883, with emphasis on their activities in České Budějovice. The study shows how concern for the ill was linked to works of charity, which were closely connected with spiritual care in the last decades of the eighteenth century. It then captures the process of gradual separation of charity and health institutions in the course of the nineteenth century, whereby an outward sign of this process was an increase in the number of hospitals. This was due...

Removal of Nuns from South Bohemian Hospitals by the Communist Regime and Its Impact on Pastoral Care of Patients

Martin Weis

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):84-91 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.034  

After February 1948 gradual circumscription of ecclesial life in the state began to take place. The communist authorities in Czechoslovakia sought, inter alia, to radically reduce the activities of female religious orders mainly in exposed areas such as education and public health care. First, on 13 April 1950, during a night raid, the police seized monasteries and the monks were taken to so-called "concentration" or internment monasteries. Then administrative restrictions on the activity of nuns and their transfer to so-called "centralization" cloisters followed. Those measures had a very negative impact on spiritual care of patients in town and district...

Human Dignity as the Foundation of the Patient-Physician Relationship

Martina Pavelková

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):102-111 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.036  

This article reflects the relationship between patient and physician, mainly with regard to the Czech law. The concept of health and disease in each historical period also influenced the patient-physician relationship. Different kinds of this relationship are demonstrated on four models. When we reflect the relationship between physician and patient, with all its difficulties and possibilities, we recognize human dignity as the basis of this relationship.

Pastoral Care in Homes for the Elderly: Selected Issues

Věra Suchomelová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):122-131 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.038  

Pastoral care of the elderly in the sense of accompanying an older person in the story of life and faith requires a functional relationship between the pastoral worker and the recipient of pastoral care. The paper first brings a brief reflection of the contemporary practice of pastoral care in homes for the elderly in CR as a specific pastoral environment, then, based on the conclusions of the qualitative study Spiritual Needs in the Life of Elderly Persons in South Bohemia, defines and characterizes aspects of meaningful pastoral care (not only) in this specific pastoral milieu: own initiative of the pastoral worker in establishing contact with the...

Theological Reflection in Pastoral Supervision

Magdalena Ehrlichová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):143-153 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.040  

The paper presents supervision as a discipline that can help pastoral workers cope with the demands of their profession. Based on the characteristic of supervision in helping professions the text considers its important specificities for the field of pastoral work. A prerequisite of pastoral supervision is its theological and spiritual understanding of the field of pastoral work as well as the world of the pastoral worker. This paper presents suggestions on how to conceive theological reflection in pastoral supervision.

The Issue of Applying Professional Values in Social Work

Monika Flídrová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):162-169 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.042  

The article is based on reflecting the research of Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia no. 117/2013/H, part of which was also the topic of professional values. The results of the survey research draw attention to the issue of applying professional values in social work. This article aims primarily to highlight some of the barriers to value application, mainly related to the definition of the concept of values and to the plurality of values in social work. It is based on the general notion that in their practice social workers need to follow values leading to fulfilling the mission and purpose of social work.

The Concept of Ethical Education in CR and Possible Inspirations in the Concept of Philip Cam

Lucie Krausová, Jindřich Šrajer

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):186-201 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.044  

The paper wants to contribute to the current discussion on the conception of Ethical Education in the Czech Republic and its purpose in state schools. By simple comparison of this concept with the concept of Philip Cam the paper tries to show possible inspirations which could be helpful for a better understanding of the purpose of Ethical Education in state schools in the Czech Republic and its more effective realization. The comparison was at hand, since the approach formulated by Philip Cam is close to the goals and values formulated by the concept of Ethical Education in CR.

Jane WHARAM, Emoční inteligence: Cesta do středu sebe sama

Milan Nakonečný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):204  

Kurt RUDOLPH, Gnóze. Podstata a dějiny náboženského směru pozdní antiky

Milan Nakonečný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):205  

Jaroslav Coranič, Z dejín Gréckokatolíckej cirkvi na Slovensku

Martin Weis

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):206-207  

Gabriela ŠÁRNÍKOVÁ a Peter TAVEL, Love and Development of Human Being. Spiritual, Philosophical, Psychological and Pedagogical Dimension of Love

Ludmila Muchová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(2):208-210