Naslov
Live Not By Lies and the Croatian Prophet of Totalitarianism

Autori
Štahan, Matija

Izvornik
Crisis Magazine

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, popularni rad

Godina
2022

Ključne riječi
Stjepan Tomislav Poglajen, Tomislav Kolaković, totalitarianism, Rod Dreher

Sažetak
The Croatian Jesuit Stjepan Tomislav Poglajen (1906-1990), better known in the world today under his code name Tomislav Kolaković, was suddenly torn out of historical oblivion by Rod Dreherʼs book Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020). Although Poglajen was a Croatian priest, Dreher did not write about Croatia but instead focused on Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union. However, by looking at Poglajen’s Croatian context, we can find a warning for the direction in which the United States, Europe, and the entire West could move in the 21st century. As an unusual personality who had a multitude of pseudonyms in the second half of his life, Poglajen is a member of several traditions. The first of these is the tradition that Christ described anticlimactically as prophets who were not recognized in their own homeland. Poglajen is forgotten in Croatia today, and it would not be surprising if, thanks to Dreherʼs work, he is better known in the English-speaking area than here in Croatia. Another tradition to which Poglajen belongs is that of Croatian Catholic idealists and, many would say, blinded romantics.

Izvorni jezik
Hrvatski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Kroatologija

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