Night of the Confessor

Critical reflections on the state and current problems of our world and on the contemporary transformations of religion, gently humorous jabs at his own kind, philosophical meditations on paradoxical biblical statements, and psychological insights from the author's many years of experience in the spiritual guidance of people standing between faith and doubt and seeking answers to serious life questions.

What does the contemporary world look like from the perspective of a confessor—a person who has been accustomed to listening to others for years, trying to understand them and find ways out of life's crises with them? "Every crisis is a chance," claimed the father of depth psychology, C. G. Jung—and Tomáš Halík sees in the crises of the contemporary world, the crises of existing forms of religion, and the crisis situations in the lives of individuals a challenge to "put out into the deep."