First published in Czech as Kdo je člověk? Teologická antropologie ekumenicky by Karolinum, Prague, 2021.
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
This book is a result of work carried out under the following project, Charles University Research Centre No. 204052, “Theological Anthropology in Ecumenical Perspective.”
This book has been supported by Charles University Research Centre program No. UNCE/24/SSH/019 “Theological Anthropology in Inter-cultural Perspective.”
Cover illustration: Ivana Noble, In Paradise (oil on canvas, 2020).
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