“Unity–the Challenge of Your History”: John Paul II and Czech Ecumenism

Robert Svatoň

doi:10.18290/rt.2019.66.7-9

Published : 2019-11-07

Vol. 66 No. 7 (2019)

“Unity–the Challenge of Your History”: John Paul II and Czech Ecumenism

Robert Svatoň

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rt.2019.66.7-9

Abstract

The present text focuses on the appeals of John Paul II regarding Czech Ecumenism. It does so in three steps: first, it offers general characteristics of Wojtyła’s understanding of ecumenism; then it outlines the social and ecclesiastic context in which the Pope’s calls for Christian unity in the Czech Republic were received during the 1990s; and, finally, it presents three topics of the Pope’s most important ecumenical appeals. The chosen method allows us to see how the universally-applicable principles of John Paul II’s ecumenical efforts were manifested in his specific pastoral concerns about the local Church and Christian unity in Bohemia and Moravia.

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Catholic Church, John Paul II, ecumenism, Czech lands, healing of memory, ecclesiology, New Evangelization, Reformation, Jan Hus, Cyril and Methodius

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