Abstract
The selected topic notes the interesting parallels of the theological principle applied in Pope Francis' first encyclical, Lumen Fidei ("The Light of Faith"). It can be defined as faith that is the human response to the personal encounter with the living God.
The encyclical emphasizes the unique personal dimension of faith as a relationship between man and God. Statements of the encyclical regarding the transcendence of the Christocentric faith erect a barrier to the advancing secularization, post-modern atheism and idolatry.
Consequently, the document protects the value and dignity of human lives against the ubiquitous depersonalization. It is worth pointing out that the statement by the Supreme Magisterium of the Catholic Church in the third millennium finds distinct interfaces with the theological school of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, i.e. its notable figure, prof.
ThDr. Zdeněk Trtík (1914-1983), who in 1948 published his inaugural dissertation entitled "The Me-You Relationship and Christianity", launching a new era in the profiling of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church in biblical personalism, mainly influenced by the major figures of the German-speaking Protestant circles (K.
Barth, P. Tillich, E.
Brunner, M. Buber, K.
Heim and others). Already in late 1940s, Zdeněk Trtík warned against the risk of degrading the value of individual human lives through collectivization, followed by state-promoted atheism.
He clearly distinguishes between personal and objective relationships. He notes the human entity as an infinite continuity which freely opens to another entity in a real me-you relationship, i.e. opens to the human "you" and accepts it unconditionally.
Trtík analyzes the faith in God as a "dimension splitting", which takes place in the encounter of the human "me" and Divine "You". This new understanding of faith necessarily reflects in the moral appeals that are now updated in Lumen Fidei, on today's crossroads of history.