Církve a právo Miscellanea – Tretera Jiří Rajmund (2015)

The book "Church and Law" is a collection of miscellanea, diversities, from the rich work of lawyer, canonist, and priest Jiří Rajmund Tretera, published on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It is a selection of short articles concerning churches and legal fields related to churches. Among the articles, one can find documents that the author contributed to and which are now inaccessible or difficult to access. The diversity of the topic and the originality of the included texts make the book an interesting and at times thrilling read. The book serves as a foundation for understanding the roots from which today's applicable ecclesiastical, canonical, and confessional law grows, and it is somewhat of a compendium. The style of the book delights the reader with its kind approach and clarity, although it does not lack the enthusiasm and combativeness of the era. P. prof. JUDr. Jiří Rajmund Tretera OP, born June 8, 1940, in Prague, is a graduate and professor of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. He worked as a commercial lawyer from 1962 to 1989, and since 1990 in spiritual administration and as a university teacher. From a young age, he was active in the Evangelical Church and after his conversion to Catholicism in 1972, he was involved in the underground structures of the Catholic Church. He studied theology and taught at the covertly operating General Study...