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Jan Hus and Transsubstantiation from the Perspective of Dogmatic Theology

Publication |
2015

Abstract

The consistent systematic-theological approach of the paper can be enriching for the scholars of various field interested in the topic. The work is not aimed to retell the past; its goal is to present the past in the most just way as possible on the level of catholic dogmatic theology.

Firstly, the author describes contemporary concept of transsubstantional model of describing Eucharistic Mystery and revers to the connections between this doctrine and Christology on the one hand and ecclesiology on the other. On this basis, he arrives at a new appraisal of Hus's teaching and also of consubstantiation, which catholic theology need not necessarily perceive as heterodox.

Apart from that, it shows that Hus's essentially orthodox teaching could shed light upon his controversial ecclesiology.