Bücher von Tomás Halik

Tomá¿ Halík challenges us with this new Via Crucis, rooted in the Gospel and addressed to believers and nonbelievers alike. He invites readers to a real encounter, one with Jesus in our present world. "Jesus and his cross are not something external to our lives, they are not an event that ended in the past, they must not be the object of our sentimental piety. Jesus does not invite us on the Way of the Cross to regret, but to change our mentality and our actions."

Corona - eine Strafe Gottes? Auf keinen Fall, meint TomáS Halík und bietet eine Deutung der Pandemie, die den Glauben ebenso berücksichtigt wie die Vernunft. Er sieht in den Ereignissen von 2020 eine Warnung: Die leeren Kirchen während des Lockdowns könnten zum Sinnbild für die nahe Zukunft der Kirche werden. Damit dies nicht geschieht, gilt es, beherzt Abschied zu nehmen von allem, was nicht mehr trägt: »Auch im Christentum muss etwas sterben, um dann in einer neuen, verwandelten Gestalt auferstehen zu können. Und diese neue Gestalt wird bereits geboren und wir können Zeugen und aktive Teilnehmer dieser Geburt sein.« Ein Buch, das nichts beschönigt und gerade deshalb Hoffnung macht.

Zum christlichen Glauben gehört der Mut, die Wunden unserer Welt wahrzunehmen und sie mit dem Glauben zu berühren. Denn wir begegnen Gott überall dort, wo Menschen leiden. Und auch wenn jemand Christus nicht im traditionellen kirchlichen Umfeld finden kann, ist für ihn noch immer die Möglichkeit gegeben, ihm in den offenen Wunden unserer Welt zu begegnen. In 14 Essays zeigt TomáS Halík, dass sich ein Glaube »ohne Wunden« als Illusion erweist."Das Buch ist eine vom Alltag gesättigte Meditation." forum

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 "e;flying university,"e; 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.