Meetings
This year´s meeting of the Association of Friends of the Protestant Evangelical Faculty (EPF) of the Charles University (hereinafter only Association) took place from 7th to 9th November.
It was focused on the question:“Whose holy war? Christians and the fight for peace.“ It was actually only a small group of participants who met to reflect and discuss rather a controversial theme concerning Christian attitudes to war.
Read more: 2003 Whose Holy War? Christians and the fight for peace.
Third meeting in line of the Association of the Friends of the Protestant Theological Faculty took successfully place during the days from 9th to 11th November 2001.
The theme of this years´s meeting was "A religion without a confession?" The meaning of different confessions for the Church and society. According to this topic it was an expert discussion between Dr.Heinz Rüegger and two teachers of the Protestant Theological Faculty in Prague, Prof. David Holeton and Dr. Ladislav Beneš.
On November 8-10, 2002, some 50 former and current student and friends of the Protestant Theological Faculty, from 10 different countries, met in Prague for the fourth annual assembly of the Association of Friends of the Faculty. This year´s theme was "Darknes", after the title of a book by the well-known Czech author Jirásek about the Counter-Reformation period in Czech history.
Read more: 2002 - Darknes - Culture and Religion in Baroque Prague
The first evening of the conference was opened by Anna-Marie Matthijsse´s speech who was talking about homosexuality from a lasbian point of view. On Saturday morning other lectures followed. Jan Roskovec, a member of the commission at the synod council of the CPC for the question of the Churches relation to the homosexual minority, was speaking about his work experience with homosexual people and was also interpreting the main biblical texts concerning the conference´s topic. After that we could listen to a lecture by ThDr. Jindøich Halama about different ways of an interpretation of certain biblical texts mentioning homo-sexuality. To see how homosexuality in the context of biblical understanding of sexuality could be evaluated was said as well. The third lecturer was Ivo Prochazka who was explaining the essence of homosexuality from an up-to-day medicine point of view.