Tomáš Halík From the Underground Church to Freedom (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) I’ve just finished reading an amazing autobiography by the Czechian Catholic priest Father Tomáš Halík. He was a very important figure in the underground church and a towering figure in post-Communist Czechoslovakia. He has lectured all over the world, written numerous books, received multiple honorary doctorates, and won the Templeton Prize.
I am interested in this area as my great-grandma and her family came from the Czech/Slovakia area in the late 1800s. I visited the Czech Republic about a dozen years ago, and was struck by the large amount of atheism. I will check out this resource.
Sounds like an excellent biography and snapshot of an amazing era.
This sentence caught my eye: “I fear that Russia will go on being tossed to and fro between dictatorship and chaos, because it lacks the cultural and moral preconditions for building a democratic society.” Which is also why democracy has such little success outside of the West.
Amazing story!!! Thank you!! Two quotes really spoke to me! Halík writes that conversion is like the sunrise, not seeing new things, but seeing everything in a new light, the destruction of Communism using spiritual weapons. Well said!
I am interested in this area as my great-grandma and her family came from the Czech/Slovakia area in the late 1800s. I visited the Czech Republic about a dozen years ago, and was struck by the large amount of atheism. I will check out this resource.
Sounds like an excellent biography and snapshot of an amazing era.
This sentence caught my eye: “I fear that Russia will go on being tossed to and fro between dictatorship and chaos, because it lacks the cultural and moral preconditions for building a democratic society.” Which is also why democracy has such little success outside of the West.
Amazing story!!! Thank you!! Two quotes really spoke to me! Halík writes that conversion is like the sunrise, not seeing new things, but seeing everything in a new light, the destruction of Communism using spiritual weapons. Well said!