The Hussite Theological Faculty () is one of three theological faculties of

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. The Faculty was founded with the

Czechoslovak Hussite Church The Czechoslovak Hussite Church (, ''CČSH'' or ''CČH''; ) is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia. Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Moravian Church trace their tradition ...

which was established at the beginning of 1920 from the Catholic Modernist movement. The Hussite Theological Faculty currently offers theological studies of three Christian convictions - Hussite Theology, Old Catholic Theology and Orthodox Theology.

History

Hus's Faculty was first situated in the sacristy of the Evangelical Church of the Savior in the Old Town of Prague, since 1920 in the former Archbishop's seminary in

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and later at the seat of the

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in . The first dean of the Faculty was Gustav Adolf Skalský (1857–1926).

Departments

* Department of Systematical Theology, Theological Ethics and Theological Philosophy * Department of Biblical and Jewish Studies * Department of Practical Theology, Ecumenical Studies and Interpersonal Communication * Department of Historical Theology and Church History * Department of Philosophy * Department of Religious Studies * Department of Pedagogy * Department of Psychosocial Sciences and Ethics * Institute of Eastern Christianity

References

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