Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2007
Abstract
The first half of the essay deals with the problem of a ?collective identity? which it tries to define as a living, narrating and developing story shared by a group of people. The second part of the esssay criticises the prevailing conception of the collective identity present in the Protestant Church of Czech Brethren: Mainly due to historical reasons, it is conceived as a merely ?horizontal? relation to one?s neighbours and as a distancing from the catholic identity while the ?vertical? dimension of relating to God?s otherness is being neglected.