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From the Underground Church to Freedom (Hardcover)
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From the Underground Church to Freedom (Hardcover)
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International best-selling author and theologian Tomas Halik shares
for the first time the dramatic story of his life as a secretly
ordained priest in Communist Czechoslovakia. Inspired by
Augustine's candid presentation of his own life, Halik writes about
his spiritual journey within a framework of philosophical theology;
his work has been compared to that of C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton,
and Henri Nouwen. Born in Prague in 1948, Halik spent his childhood
under Stalinism. He describes his conversion to Christianity during
the time of communist persecution of the church, his secret study
of theology, and secret priesthood ordination in East Germany (even
his mother was not allowed to know that her son was a priest).
Halik speaks candidly of his doubts and crises of faith as well as
of his conflicts within the church. He worked as a psychotherapist
for over a decade and, at the same time, was active in the
underground church and in the dissident movement with the legendary
Cardinal Tomasek and Vaclav Havel, who proposed Halik as his
successor to the Czech presidency. Since the fall of the regime,
Halik has served as general secretary to the Czech Conference of
Bishops and was an advisor to John Paul II and Vaclav Havel. Woven
throughout Halik's story is the turbulent history of the church and
society in the heart of Europe: the 1968 Prague Spring, the
occupation of Czechoslovakia, the self-immolation of his classmate
Jan Palach, the "flying university," the 1989 Velvet Revolution,
and the difficult transition from totalitarian communist regime to
democracy. Thomas Halik was a direct witness to many of these
events, and he provides valuable testimony about the backdrop of
political events and personal memories of the key figures of that
time. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Halik and
the church as it was behind the Iron Curtain, as well as in where
the church as a whole is headed today.
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