This article highlights the presence in Croatia of John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Hence, the article gives a chronological list of reviews on the encyclical in Croatian scientific periodicals, which are generally associated with philosophical–theological institutions in Croatia. Articles were published in the journals Crkva u svijetu (The Church in the World), Obnovljeni život (Renewed Life) and Bogoslovska smotra (The Seminarian Review) and in other places also, though the latter are almost negligible. Writings were occasional in nature, i.e., they were issued at the time of the publication of the encyclical and on the marking of its anniversaries. The aforesaid are very good presentations of the entire document or of individual sections on whatever problem the authors deal with in their scholarly endeavours. Following the encyclical, they wrote about the meaningful relationship between reason and faith throughout history, or rather philosophy and theology as the sciences of faith, of the openness, in principle, of the human spirit to the truth which is of a transcendent nature, of the necessity of philosophy for theology, of the natural sciences and the encyclical, of the abomination of nihilism which is a true negation of humanity, and of the offer of Jesus Christ’s message which John Paul II proposed to philosophy. It must be mentioned also that certain authors tended to make critical references to some sections of the encyclical.

Prilog iznosi na vidjelo prisutnost enciklike Fides et ratio Ivana Pavla II. u nas, i to povodom njezine dvadesete obljetnice izlaska. S tim ciljem kronološki pokazuje osvrte na nju u našoj znanstvenoj periodici, koja se mahom vezuje uz filozofsko– teološke institucije na našem nacionalnom korpusu. Članci su većinom izlazili u časopisima Crkva u svijetu, Obnovljeni Život, Vrhbosniensia i Bogoslovska smotra, a gotovo zanemarivo na drugim mjestima. Napisi su bili prigodničarskoga karaktera, tj. izlazili su povodom objave enciklike i obilježavanja njezinih godišnjica. Riječ je o veoma dobrim prikazima čitavoga dokumenta, odnosno pojedinih njegovih dijelova u kojima je riječ o problematici kojom se autori inače bave u svojem znanstvenom radu. Oni su slijedeći okružnicu pisali o povijesno bremenitom odnosu razuma i vjere, odnosno filozofije i teologije kao znanosti o vjeri, o načelnoj otvorenosti ljudskoga duha prema istini koja je i transcendentnoga karaktera, o nužnosti filozofije za teologiju, o prirodnim znanostima i enciklici, o grozoti nihilizma koji predstavlja pravu negaciju ljudskosti te o ponudi poruke Isusa Krista koju je filozofiji pružio Ivan Pavao II. Valja spomenuti da su se pojedini autori znali i kritički osvrnuti na neke dijelove enciklike.