Autor podle recenzenta v knize podniká hloubkovou sondu do myšlenkového světa skupiny intelektuálů v období první Československé republiky, kteří byli katolíky natolik, že zapomněli na to, že jsou také křesťany. V jedné skupině však přitom spojil až příliš různorodé osobnosti a z rozboru jejich názorů pak vyvozuje někdy zjednodušující či problematické generalizace, například o vztahu katolických intelektuálů k prvorepublikovému režimu a demokracii obecně. Za přínosný považuje recenzent důraz na politický rozměr katolického myšlení v dané době, rozsah zpracování některých díčích témat jako antisemitismu však podle něj není dostatečný., In this book, according to the reviewer, the author has conducted a deep probe into the thought world of a group of intellectuals in the first Czechoslovak Republic who were Roman Catholics to such an extent that they forgot that they were also Christians. The author, however, has put too many different figures into one group, and then, from an analysis of their views, has sometimes made simplistic or problematic generalizations, for example, about the Roman Catholic intellectuals’ attitude towards the régime of the First Republic in particular and democracy in general. The reviewer appreciates the emphasis on the political dimension of Roman Catholic thought in this period, but considers the scope of the treatment of some parts of the topic, such as antisemitism, to be insufficient., [autor recenze] Jiří Smlsal., and Obsahuje bibliografii
This article looks at the debate on clerical celibacy among Czech theologians during the Enlightenment. Drawing largely on their writings, which in many cases served as textbooks in the training of future priests and thus had a significant impact, it analyses the origins, arguments and course of the debate. Doubts about the future of celibacy first appeared in canon law in the 1770s, conditioned in part by secular factors such as populationism. In the late 1780s clerical celibacy was publicly challenged by influential university theologians such as the church historian Kaspar Royko in Prague and the theologian Josef Lauber in Olomouc, a former Jansenist. Their main argument was the widespread non-compliance by priests and its harmful social consequences. The law also had its defenders (e.g. Franz Christoph Pittroff), whose main argument was the traditional one of the need for purity in the Eucharist. During the 1790s the public controversy about celibacy disappeared; but for many years the discourse on the subject remained strongly influenced by Enlightenment thinking.