The education and teaching of theologians CHCH/ CMCH during the Czecho - Slovak Rupublic (1938 - 39) and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939 - 45)
Abstract
The study period of CHC theologians at Hus's Czechoslovak Evangelical Theological Faculty has been five years since 1935. From 17 November 1939, all Czech universities of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were closed.
The CHC had to adapt the teaching of the clergy adolescents to this restriction and could not implement it as university teaching. Most of the theologians were transferred to the positions of assistant teachers of religion from the end of 1939, they lived at the Theological Dormitory of the CHC, where their teaching continued.
After the assassination of R. Heydrich (May 1942), the system of seminar courses and lectures in the form of Bible classes and limited theological exams could not ensure the pre-war level of theological education.
Nevertheless, the protectorate model of teaching CHC theologians was successful in these difficult conditions. From 1939 to 1945, 112 theologians passed through it, 98 of whom completed their entire studies, or in part, whilst 14 theologians began their studies and left.