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The curious case of Peter Chelc̄icky̍ is one of the much covered up mysteries of the history of the Church and or religious thought, in spite of the fact that "his works of outstanding quality in contents and in composition rank among the most precious manifestations of the Czech spirit." He has passed by acclamation into the company of the great philosophers of the Christian community, on the strength of a total of some forty theological writings, an more particularly on the strength of his crowning magnum opus, the.

We know exceedingly little about him beyond what his writings and the correspondence of his contemporaries as well as what some of their oblique references disclose; though scholars have searched incessantly during the past three decades for any scrap of further information concerning so notable a figure. Kamil Krofta,, London: Allen & Unwin, 1935, p.55.