Centre Pro Oriente Christiano ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Centre Pro Oriente Christiano was established by the Dean of the Catholic Theological Facu University and approved by its Academic Senate on 23rd June 2010.  It is part of the Facul Theological Ethics and Spiritual Theology. Centre Pro Oriente Christiano specializes in the study of theology, spirituality, liturgy, and culture of the four eastern Christian patriarchal traditions, i.e. of Jerusalem, Antio and Constantinople. Our particular aim is to shed light on those churches of the Byzantine present in the Czech Republic, Our research is carried under an ecumenical perspective and will contribute to building br connect the various Christian denominations. *========================================================================================= * *========================================================================================= Head: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mlada Mikulicová, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Assistant professor at Department of Biblical Sciences at KTF UK • Main field: religions and cultures of the Ancient Near East, languages and literature of Testament, parabiblical literature of the Syro-Palestinian and Arabic region • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Christian Arabic literature, religious relati Bible and the Qur´an, Arabic apocrypha, history of Christianity in the Arab countries contact: mikulicova(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "mikulicova(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] http://ktf.cuni.cz/~mlada/ [ URL "http://ktf.cuni.cz/~mlada/"] *========================================================================================= * *========================================================================================= members (in alphabetic order): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ doc. PhDr. Josef Bartoň, Th.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Associate professor at Department of Biblical Sciences at KTF UK, head of the Section of Languages • Main field: ancient languages (Greek, Latin, Church Slavonic), history of Czech Bible, b translatology, Czech biblical style • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Greek patristic literature, religion and cult Slavic peoples contact: barton(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "barton(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] http://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTF-66.html [ URL "http://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTF-66.html"] http://ktf.cuni.cz/~barton/ [ URL "http://ktf.cuni.cz/~barton/"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ doc. ThLic. Jaroslav Brož, Th.D. S.S.L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Head of Department of Biblical Sciences at KTF UK • Main field: New Testament, biblical hermeneutics, biblical spirituality • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Christian Syriac of the Antiquity, Syriac spi literature (St. Ephraim, Jacob of Serug, Isaac the Syrian) contact: brozj(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "brozj(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] http://ktf.cuni.cz/~brozj/ [ URL "http://ktf.cuni.cz/~brozj/"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThLic. Jan Kotas, S.L.L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Assistant professor at Department of Pastoral and Law Sciences at KTF UK, priest of Prag rector of Archbishop´s Seminary in Prague • Main field: Liturgics • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Byzantine liturgy (regular services at Sts. C Church in Emmaus Monastery) contact: kotas(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "kotas(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lukáš Nosek, Th.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • academic staff at the Department of Fundamental and Dogmatic theology at KTF UK • Main field: islamology, history of relations of christianity and islam, history of catho • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Arabic Christian Literature (theology, philos muslim polemics) contact: nosek(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "(zavinac)"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ doc. ThLic. Mgr. Karel Sládek, Th.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Associate professor at Department of Theological Ethics and Spiritual Theology at KTF UK • Main field: spiritual theology, Eastern theology • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Russian religious thought, religiousness of t the Ukrainian minorities in the Czech Republic contact: sladek(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "sladek(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] http://www.carolus.cz/ [ URL "http://www.carolus.cz/"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ doc. ThDr. Václav Ventura, Th.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Associat professor at Department of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at KTF UK • Main field: history of theology, patrology, patristic, monastic spirituality • Specific concerns in Eastern Christianity: Eastern Christian traditions, Eastern monasti contact: ventura(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz [ MAIL "ventura(zavinac)ktf.cuni.cz"] *========================================================================================= * *========================================================================================= "The Church must breathe with her two lungs! In the first millennium of the history of Chr expression refers primarily to the relationship between Byzantium and Rome. From the time of Rus' it comes to have an even wider application: evangelization spread to a much vaster now includes the entire Church. If we then consider that the salvific event which took pla of the Dnieper goes back to a time when the Church in the East and the Church in the West we understand clearly that the vision of the full communion to be sought is that of unity diversity." John Paul II, Encyclical Ut unum sint II, 54.