This study is a response to the preceding discussion on the original essay on the concept of enlightenment. It examines the relationship between enlightenment, national revival and Romanticism, issues of popular enlightenment, and the role of the Catholic clergy in the Enlightenment, with further remarks on the phases and specific features of the Czech Enlightenment.
Enlightenment, National Revival, Vernacularization or 'Cultural Renewal'? Further Observations on the Concept of Enlightenment as the 'Democratization of Knowledge' and the Relationship between Enlightenment and National Revival.
This study aims to present the problems of the perspective of Catholic theology and Catholic historiography on the Enlightenment. In its first part it attempts to find an answer to the question: is the Church History rather theological or historical discipline? Then it shows some specifics of the Catholic perspective in the Church History discipline before and after the 2nd Vatican Council. In its second part it shows reflection of the problems of Enlightenment in the Catholic theology. In the next part this study dwells on discussion about understanding of Enlightenment in history since 1908 till now. In its last part shows reflection of theological and historical research in the Bohemian area before and after the 2nd Vatican Council., Rudolf Svoboda., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Praktiker der Aufklärung oder Prälat als Dunkelmann? Der Goldenkroner Abt Gottfried Bylanský im intellektuellen Spektrum der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts.