Církevní zřízení Českobratrské církve evangelické v letech 1922–1945
Church Polity of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren 1922–1945
Author(s): Adam CsukásSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Společnost pro církevní právo
Keywords: Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren; church polity; church constitution; church law; Czechoslovakia; First Republic; Second Republic; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; World War II;
Summary/Abstract: The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren embarked on the path of the national and people’s church after its establishment in 1918. Although its church constitution received government approval in 1922, as early as 1923 the first proposals for its partial change, which occurred in 1931, appeared at the synod. Even then, however, the church is not immune to the proposals to change the church constitution and not to be the events of 1938/1939 leading to the break-up of Czechoslovakia, there would probably be a further revision of the church constitution. The period of the World War II represents a fundamental turning point in the history of the church polity of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. The church took advantage of the experience gained during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, when there were more forced changes in the church polity, in the post-war period, in which the church enters somewhat transformed.
Journal: Revue církevního práva
- Issue Year: XXVI/2020
- Issue No: 79
- Page Range: 39-64
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Czech