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  • Europeana

    by Patrik Ourednik ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory.Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Afternoon of Christianity

    The Courage to Change

    by Tomáš Halík ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    Tomáš Halík provides a poignant reflection on Christianity’s crisis of faith while offering a vision of the self-reflection, love, and growth necessary for the church to overcome and build a deeper and more mature faith.In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust, and ravaged by war and pandemic, Christians are facing a crisis of faith. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Touch the Wounds

    On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation

    by Tomáš Halík ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    In this masterfully written book, Tomáš Halík calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors.One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, Tomáš Halík argues that Christians can discover the clearest vision of God not by turning away from suffering but by confronting it. Halík calls upon us to follow ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Vendulka

    Flight to Freedom

    by Ondrej Kundra ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    So many lives were cut short by the Holocaust, many with no trace to leave behind for future generations to remember. Vendulka tells the story of a single scrap of remembrance—a candid photograph taken in the midst of this unspeakable tragedy—and that artifact’s amazing aftermath.Famed Czech photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • From the Underground Church to Freedom

    by Tomáš Halík ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    International best-selling author and theologian Tomáš 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, Tomáš 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 ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • I Want You to Be

    On the God of Love

    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    by Tomáš Halík ...
    In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor, best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomáš Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love, meditating on a statement attributed to St. Augustine—amo, volo ut sis, “I love you: I want you to be”—and its ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • A Czech Dreambook

    by Ludvík Vaculík, Jonathan Bolton ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    It’s 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

    by Miloš Pojar ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    In this book, Miloš Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key events and ideas that shaped Masaryk’s attitudes: his first contacts with the Jewish world as a child, and later as a student; his work as a philosopher and sociologist, through which his thinking on Marxism, social ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

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  • Theology for the Third Millennium

    An Ecumenical View

    by Hans Kung ...
    In "Theology for the Third Millennium," renowned theologian Hans Küng distills three decades of groundbreaking scholarship into a seminal work that reaffirms the enduring relevance of theology in our modern world.As religion faces constant questioning and frequent attacks, Küng's magnum opus offers a profound and intellectually rigorous defense of faith's place in contemporary discourse.This ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Night of the Confessor

    Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Tomas Halik ...
    Tomáš Halík is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection.As the challenges of cultural secularization and dwindling congregation size confront religious communities across North America and Europe, and the Catholic Church in particular, Tomáš ... Read more

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  • On Being a Pagan

    by Alain de Benoist ...
    What is paganism? In this penetrating and tightly argued manifesto, French philosopher Alain de Benoist seeks to answer this question with passionate intellectual vigor and a tremendous erudition. Arising out of the “monotheism vs. polytheism” debate that reverberated through Parisian intellectual circles in the late 1970s, this is neither a survey of ancient, pre-Christian religions, nor is it an ... Read more

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  • Patience with God

    The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us

    by Tomas Halik ...
    For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other— Tomá Halík teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us to maturity. For Halík, patience is the main difference between faith and atheism. Faith, hope, and love are three aspects of patience in the face of God’s ... Read more

    $16.99 USD