Anotace
The seminar improves the work of the systematic theologian. The participants learn to manage the lecture of a more difficult, (usually) modern theological text in English within the critical discussion about previous and other possible interpretations of the author.
Essential in the seminar is a joint reading of a fundamental text, usually one of time-tested monograph by a distunguished (protestant or catholic) systematic theologian of the 20th or 21st century. Each session of the seminar is led by a particular participant, who is supposed to prepare an introduction into the particular text, to ask introductory guiding questions, to moderate the discussion and, after the session, to make a final summary of „his“ or „her“ session.
The students learn how to interpret a demanding theological text within a context of different language, church and culture, to apply it in a different situation with its necessary adaptations and actualizations, and to popularize it for the lay public. The goal of the seminar is to learn to express oneself in a self-standing way in both the oral and the written form.
For appointing of credits, students are required to participate actively on each session and prepare a paper (about 10 pages long), which will consider and evaluate the strong and weak sides of the read text with a special respect to their own contemporary context.