Reflection and discussion:
Chapter 1: The roots of the situation of Christianity in the Czech lands at the beginning of the 19th century
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. 1781 and the limitation of the Roman Catholic Church judicial system in the country.
2. The 1781 Patent of Toleration and the anti-Reformation denominational model of only one official denomination.
Chapter 2: Nationalism as part of the history of 19th century Christianity in the Czech lands
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. Contrast theory (on the origin of nationalism). Primordialism.
2. Czechs and the German culture and language.
Chapter 3: Nationalism and the Czech and German forms of Christianity
Topics for the reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. The development of Christianity in 19th century Czech lands in the context of the National Revival process and the coexistence of Czechs and Germans in the country.
2. The activities of Christian denominations in the fight for civil liberties and a more just social order.
Chapter 4: Jan Hus and the Hussite movement in the Czech national consciousness during the 19th century
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. Hus, Žižka, and the rise and development of Czech political liberalism in the 19th century.
2. Appeals for a review of the trial of Hus in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.
Chapter 5: The two motives of the development of Czech national identity at the end of the 19th century
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. New attitudes to the popularization of science in the late 19th century Czech lands
2. The expectations of Czech Francophiles towards France.
Chapter 6: The Roman Catholic Church
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. Central Europe as a space for Slavic national life and the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.
2. Political Catholicism in the late 19th century Czech lands.
Chapter 7: The end of the 19th century and Catholic modernism
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. ThDr. PhDr. František Loskot and the study of the history of the Czech and European reformation.
2. Catholic modernism and the reforms of the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century.
Chapter 8: Germans in the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech lands
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. Czech-German associations in the Roman Catholic Church before the year 1848 and after it.
2. The Christian social movement in the Hapsburg Monarchy.
Chapter 9: Lutherans and Reformists
Topics for reading, reflection, and discussion:
1. The School Law of May 1868 and the Evangelical churches’ struggle for their own schools.
2. The connection of Czech and European ideological influences in the life of 19th century Evangelical churches in the Czech lands.