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The principle of freedom of conscience in the Czechoslovak Church in the years 1920-1924
Sedlák, Filip ; Vogel, Jiří (advisor) ; Veverková, Kamila (referee)
The principle of freedom of conscience is supporting and typical principle for the Czechoslovak Hussite Church as can be seen already from the age before creation the new Church. We can find the mention in the articles in reform-modernist magazine The right of the nation by Alois Spisar or even in Farský's writing The Czech Church problem, which calls for freedom of conscience. Czechoslovak Church consciously follows the Master John Hus with its conception of freedom of conscience. According to Farský, freedom of conscienceis the only dogma of Czechoslovak Church, right in the sense of Hus. We can talk about following on Hus in case of freedom of conscience in sense of the freedom to full intrinsic binding to the law of God,Christ's law, as it is written by Hus, or to the spirit of Christ as it is used in Czechoslovak Church. The spirit of Christ is a requirement, which God claims to us through Jesus Christ and which is not in the litera of Scripture, it is somehow hidden behind it. While separation from Rome and establishment of Czechoslovak Church, the freedom of conscience was declared in Proclamation to Czechoslovak nation as a fundamental principle of a new Church, specifically in the sense of freedom of religious belief. The struggle for freedom of conscience culminated in the early Church within the...
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