Abstract
It is clear, after all, that the journal has been primarily and undisputably a theological one, although its scope reaches well beyond theology. Such was the desire of Professor František Kovář in the first free years of publication before WWII.
In this we fulfil both his intellectual and pastoral vision. Later editors-in-chief were limited either by the censorship of the German occupiers or by that of the Communists and were by no means able to do what they deemed right and beneficiary for the development of the journal and, indeed, the very subject of theology.
Even those limited achievements are nevertheless most respectable and substantial! In fact, apart from the very first ten years (1929-1938), it is only now in the present day that we have been fully free to continue the work of our forebears. It is not up to us or to our contemporary reviewers to be the final judges of the success of our endeavours, but we firmly believe that the future will validate our efforts and do justice to any evaluation of our strivings.