Alexandru Popescu
Ashgate
Hardback
366
2004
Petre Tutea (1902-91) was perhaps the last great political and theological thinker of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.? A Christian living in Communist Romania he spent thirteen years as a prisoner of conscience and twenty-eight years under house arrest at the hands of the Securitate.This book is the first to present Tutea's work to the English-speaking world.? It explores his response to the horrors of torture and 're-education' and reveals the experience of a whole generation detained in the political prisons.Tutea's understanding of human needs and how they can be fulfilled even amidst extreme adversity has established his authority as a spiritual teacher. Following the fall of the Ceausescus his significance has been recognised both for ecumenical Christian thinking and for wider issues of truth and reconciliation in the contemporary world.
Ashgate
Hardback
366
2004
Petre Tutea (1902-91) was perhaps the last great political and theological thinker of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.? A Christian living in Communist Romania he spent thirteen years as a prisoner of conscience and twenty-eight years under house arrest at the hands of the Securitate.This book is the first to present Tutea's work to the English-speaking world.? It explores his response to the horrors of torture and 're-education' and reveals the experience of a whole generation detained in the political prisons.Tutea's understanding of human needs and how they can be fulfilled even amidst extreme adversity has established his authority as a spiritual teacher. Following the fall of the Ceausescus his significance has been recognised both for ecumenical Christian thinking and for wider issues of truth and reconciliation in the contemporary world.