Friends from various shores

Abstract

Friends from various shores. – An introduction and commentary on the published correspondence between the philosopher Erazim Kohák and the theologian Karel Skalický. They met as participants in a conference on the meaning of Czech and Slovak history held in Switzerland in 1976, both of them exiles at the time, the philosopher and evangelical Erazim Kohák living in the USA and the theologian and catholic Karel Skalický in Rome. Erazim Kohák returned to his homeland soon after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. In 1994, Karel Skalický also returned. Both were professors who wanted to offer the best of their scholarly and teaching profession to students in the emerging democratic society.