Význam nového pojetí „místní církve“ pro náš postoj k problematice Jana Husa a husitství: Ke dvěma významným výročím

In this paper the author first outlines the new revolutionary concept of the local church as raised by the Second Council. He highlights the insufficient implementation of this innovation in the life of the Church in Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in the Catholic Church in general. In the second point, he interprets the Council’s teaching on this critical topic and also recalls the post-conciliar development of theological reflections on the issue of the particular and local church. Finally in the third paragraph he applies the possibilities offered by this doctrine on the issue of the transformation of the attitudes of contemporary Czech Catholics to the figure of Jan Hus and the Hussite movement. Hus and the subsequent Hussite movement can be perceived as a reformist wing within the universal Church of that time. Utraquism in particular appears to him as a specific form of the local church within the universal Church.