Philip Hallie (1922–1994)
Autor von Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There
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The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Mitwirkender — 178 Exemplare
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The story and the people who are profiled are interesting... I found it curious that Pastor Trocme, who is described as a devout Christian, seems to lose his faith toward the end of the story, and that his wife Magda apparently was never a believer at all...?
The author is not a Christian, and as such, miracles were explained away with "good luck" or a belief in God, rather than the actual Person/Power of God.
It's written by an ethicist, not a historian, and the book itself becomes a bit repetitive and tedious.
"Whatever one's excuses for not taking a refugee in, from the point of view of that refugee, your closed door is an instrument of harmdoing, and your closing it does harm." p 124… (mehr)