ČESKÁ KATOLICKÁ TEOLOGIE V OBDOBÍ 1850–1930 A ASTRONOMIE, KOSMOGONIE A KOSMOLOGIE

The aim of this study is to evaluate how Czech Catholic theology approached the contribution of the sciences in 1850–1930, particularly new discoveries and theories in astronomy. This is demonstrated with a wide scale of papers and books by Czech Catholic theologians indicating there was actually no tension between scientists and theologians and that the first chapters of Genesis were by no means read in a Fundamentalist manner. The competence of astronomy was fully respected. If any polemic emerged, it took place on the axis of the “Christian world view” – “materialistic and atheist interpretation of the world".