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Professor Jan Zámečník, PhD

26th June 2023

is Assistant Professor at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He also teaches at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno.  Dr. Zámečník is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren and a member of its Advisory Council for Environmental Issues. He is co-founder of the non-profit, ecumenical and environmentally oriented association Společný domov [Common Home]. His areas of professional interest are the relationship between fiction and ethics, the theological foundations of ethics, and especially environmental issues, including moral obligations to non-human creatures. He wrote a monograph Hledáš-li Boha v lásce…: čtyři teologické studie o Josefu Šafaříkovi [If You Seek God in Love…: Four Theological Studies on Josef Šafařík] (Karolinum 2020), which explores the work of the philosopher Josef Šafařík who influenced the thinking of the first Czech president, Václav Havel. His recent publications include “From Steward to Sibling: The Future of Environmental Metaphors,” Communio Viatorum 62(2) (2020): 148-183, and “Disfigurement – On Environmental Sin,” Communio Viatorum 63(3) (2021): 227-267. He initiated the publication and co-translated into Czech Animal Theology by Andrew Linzey and Of God and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life by Jay B. McDaniel, and accompanied both translations with extensive afterwords exploring the reasoning of both authors.