Kateřina Kutarňová

Kateřina Kutarňová

Kateřina Kutarňová, Ph.D. (1984)

kutarnova[at]flu.cas.cz

Post-doctoral fellow

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, 2021.

M.A. (Mgr.), Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2011.

B.A. (Bc.), Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2008.

Present Employment

Post-doctoral fellowship, Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

Publications

Studies and Other Papers

English

‘In Perfect Conformity to God’s Will Lies Our Freedom: Teresa of Ávila,’ in Monika Michałowska–Michael Dunne (eds.), The Will Discourse in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (NY–London: Routledge, 2026) – in print, 293–312.

‘Descartes and Teresa of Ávila: A Rebuttal of Christia Mercer’s Thesis‘, Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism 22:1 (2025), 70–106.

‘Aquinas’s General Pattern of Spiritual Life: STh I–II, q. 1–17’, Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism 21:1 (2024), 27–49.

‘Philip of the Blessed Trinity on Mystical Knowledge: Peculiar Kinds of Species’, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 97:3 (2023), 339–359.

‘Philip of the Blessed Trinity’s Summa Theologiae Mysticae: Commentary on the Works of Teresa of Avila’, Teresianum 74:1 (2023), 119–143.

Reading Teresa of Ávila Through Aquinas: On the Soul, Spiritual Development and Knowledge (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022), ed. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, Neue Folge, Band 92.

‘Reading Teresa’s Sixth Dwelling Places of the Interior Castle on Mystical Knowledge through Aquinas’. Scripta Theologica 54 (2022), 91–119.

‘Suffering for the Love of God: Adam, Job, Theotokos and Christ’, Cauriensia: Revista anual de Ciencias Eclesiásticas XIV (2019), 537–550.

‘Thomas Aquinas: Incarnate Spirit’, in Ladislava Říhová (ed.), Jednota v mnohosti/In pluribus unitas 2016 (Praha: Nakladatelství Luboš Marek pro HTF UK, 2018), 184–189.

‘The Structure of the Soul in St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle’, Angelicum 94:2 (2017), 387–411.

Czech

‘Tereziánské dědictví v dílech vybraných karmelitánů 17. (18.) století,‘ Studia Theologica 27:1 (2025), 143–161.

‘Introductory Essay’, in Tomáš Akvinský. Člověk jako tělo a duše v Telogické sumě , ST I, q. 75–76 (Praha: Krystal OP: 2017).

Reviews

Pavol Bargár. Embodied Existence: Our Common Life in God (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023). Studies in Christian Ethics 38:4 (2025), 568–571.

Tomáš Akvinský. O životě činném a kontemplativním v Teologické sumě (Krystal OP: Praha: 2020).

‘Tomáš Akvinský. Dary Ducha svatého v Teologické sumě’, Studia Theologica 21:3 (2019), 201–202.

Translations

Lopez, Antonio. ‘Bez počátku: Lidská svoboda a Boží všemohoucnost’, Communio: časopis pro křesťanskou kulturu 102:1 (2022), 54–74. (English – Czech)

Lacca, Emanuele. ‘Jak reagovat na pandemii a jak se s ní vyrovnat na osobní i společenské rovině: etická perspektiva’, Caritas et Veritas 11:1 (2021), 59–67. (English – Czech)

Tomáš Akvinský. Člověk jako tělo a duše v Telogické sumě, ST I, q. 75–76 (Praha: Krystal OP, 2017). (Latin – Czech)

Daniela Šterbáková. Myslet: komentář k novele Chůze a románům Staří Mistři a Mýcení Thomase Bernharda (Praha: FF UK, 2016). (Slovak – Czech)

Selected Conferences and Conference Papers

Attention in Medieval and Early Modern Scholasticism. Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice. 18^th –19^th September 2025. Contribution: ‘Rapture and Ecstasy: Baroque Carmelites on Radical Redirecting of Attention’ (invited lecturer).

The Will Discourse in the Late Middle Ages. Medical University of Łódź (Poland). 20^th –21^st June 2024. Contribution: ‘Perfect Conformity to God’s Will and Freedom in Teresa of Ávila’ (invited lecturer).

What Can the Will Do? Ethical, Social and Political Perspectives in the Later Middle-Ages and Beyond (on-line conference). Medical University of Łódź (Poland) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Contribution: ‘Through Darkness to Knowledge: the Role of Will in Teresa of Avila’s Thought.’

Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas.Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, The Netherlands, 13^th –15^th December, 2018. Contribution: ‘Mystical Knowledge: the Desired End of Initiation and Mystagogy?’

Summer Program, Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, Norcia, Italy. 17^th–28^th June, 2018. Invited Lecture: ‘Suffering for the Love of God’.

Intelligence and Will in Thomas Aquinas. Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. 26^th–27^th April, 2018. Contribution ‘Will: The Power to Reach God’.

Nature, Value and Normativity (workshop). Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bamberg, Německo – Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, TF JU, České Budějovice. 31^st May, 2017. Contribution: ‘What does Nurture our Nature? Our Body or Our Soul?’

Jednota v mnohosti/In pluribus unitas. Conference for PhD Candidates, HTF UK, Prague, 20^th–23^rd October, 2016. Contribution: ‘Thomas Aquinas: Incarnate Spirit’.

Grants and Projects

Grant project. Mystical Knowledge and Cognition in Baroque Epistemology, GA ČR 25–162 230, July 2025–June 2028. Principal investigator. The project covers two-year research stay at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Research project. Mystical Marriage and Inchoate Beatitude: Baroque Carmelite Reflections on Teresa of Ávila’s Thought. Katolische Theologie, Universität Passau. 1^st December 2024–30^th June 2025. Supported by DAAD and KAAD (consecutively).

Grant project. Kontexty současné teologie, GA JU 157/2016/H. Principal researcher: Michal Opatrný, Dr. Theol. Co-investigator.

Grant project. St. Teresa of Avila’s Teaching on Soul, GA JU 074/2016/H. Principal researcher.