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From the Underground Church to Freedom

From the Underground Church to Freedom

Halík, Tomás
Turner, Gerald

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Religious BiographiesCatholicismChristian Living

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0268106789
ISBN13: 9780268106782
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

International best-selling author and theologian Tomás Halík shares for the first time the dramatic story of his life as a secretly ordained priest in Communist Czechoslovakia.

Born in Prague in 1948, Tomás Halík 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. Halík 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 Tomásek and Václav Havel, who proposed Halík as his successor to the Czech presidency. Since the fall of the regime, Halík has served as general secretary to the Czech Conference of Bishops and was an advisor to John Paul II and Václav Havel.

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