Abstract
This article deals with civil theology, a theme often neglected at present by the theology and sociology of religion. Briefly introducing the topic’s history (Varrus, Vico, Rousseau), it presents the concept of civil religion of Robert Bellah.
The basic thesis reads: In the Czech environment at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a discourse was established which in a remarkable way resembles Bellah’s civil religion. This civil religion of Czech hue relies on the semi-secularised categories of Truth and Justice and manifests itself only in certain situations.
In the epistemological plane it projects into expectations harboured by a minority segment of the public in relation to political leaders. This cultural practice also converges with one of the trains of evangelical thought as illustrated by the rhetoric of the priest of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, Jakub S.
Trojan.