Jan Černý was twenty years old, a rising academic and national-level volleyball player in communist Czechoslovakia, when a chance encounter at a summer resort led him into the clandestine world of Jehovah's Witnesses. What followed was twenty-five years of total immersion in an underground religious movement.
Černý recounts how his faith cost him everything: expelled from Charles University a year before graduation; evicted from his dormitory; interrogated four times by the State Secret Police; subjected to house searches; and committed for three months to Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital.
He describes operating at the highest levels of the Czech Witness leadership, serving as secretary to the movement's legendary head Bohumil Müller; conducting secret missionary work deep in the Bulgarian mountains; and interpreting for members of the international governing body. He knew who of the Witness leaders collaborated with the communist secret police; how its literature was censored; and how loyalties were bought, broken, and betrayed.
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Witnessing for Jehovah in a Communist Country
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword: Introducing Jan’s Story
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- chapter 1: The Beginnings of Faith
- chapter 2: My First Contact with a Jehovah’s Witness
- chapter 3: My Turning Point Came at Ružín
- chapter 4: At the Šanc’s Home
- chapter 5: Studying the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses
- chapter 6: Notable Figures Among Jehovah’s Witnesses —and Beyond
- chapter 7: A Jehovah’s Witness in a Communist Country
- chapter 8: The Sword of Damocles Above My Head
- chapter 9: Rebel’s Defiance
- chapter 10: Bohnice
- chapter 11: A Serious Threat
- chapter 12: At the Theocratic Peak
- chapter 13: Translator at the Royal Theocratic Court
- chapter 14: Pleasant Things and Less Pleasant Things
- chapter 15: International Conventions
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: God’s Name
- Appendix II: The Devil
- Appendix III: Religious Heritage
- Appendix IV: The Velvet Revolution of 1989
- Appendix V: Czechoslovakia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Communists
- Bibliography
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