Templeton Prize winner Tomáš Halík will discuss the theme of ‘Reading the Signs of the Secular Culture’ during the 2018 Discern Annual Lecture which will be held on Tuesday November 6.

The lecture will be delivered at The Old Refectory of the Archbishop's Curia in Floriana, at 7 pm. Entrance to the lecture is free.

Prof. Halík specializes in philosophy of religion and sociology of religion, interreligious dialogue and dialogue between believers and nonbelievers.

In 1972, he was labelled an “enemy of the regime” by the Communist government of the then Czechoslovakia and was banned from university teaching. Clandestinely ordained priest in 1978, he spent nearly two decades organising and building an “underground university” and an “underground Church” made of philosophers and theologians who prepared for a new democratic era.

Since the fall of Communism, he has lectured at a number of universities and international scientific conferences and received several prizes for literature, for merits for intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and for merits for human rights and spiritual freedom.

He was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize in 2014.