Paper presented at the conference celebrating the anniversary of the periodical ?Křesťanská revue? (Christian Revue), founded in 1927 by the Czech theologian J. L.
Hromádka and the Czech philosopher Emanuel Rádl examines the motives and intentions with which the founders entered the contemporary Czech intellectual setting ? and how these may be still valid. Their attempt to demonstrate the relevance of the authentic Christianity in all traditions of the Church for actual culture, their deprecation of merely pragmatic and superficial approaches to momentous questions of public life, education, politics etc., remains a challenge.