"Ó Východe, jase věčného světla" : příspěvek ke kontextologii studia křesťanského Východu v katolické církvi a hledání nového metodologického východiska

The submitted study deals with the question of the context of the Christian East studies in the Catholic Church. The historical probe into the phenomenon of the Jesuit presence in Eastern Europe is an example of the description of the genesis of the East - West cultural antimony. This inner biography of history is generalized in the definition of cultural prejudices and constantly recurrent stereotypes in the relations between the East and West. The author proposes a new methodological solution in the principle of "illegibility", by which he defines voluntary self-restriction of how we understand and interpret each other.