André gide found her “the most truly spiritual writer of this century. Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. Eliot, charles de gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich. The body of work she left―most of it published posthumously―is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey.
After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. But more importantly, she pointed the way, to encounter the love of God – in love to neighbor, especially for those outside institutional religion, love of beauty, and even in suffering.
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The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
This welcome compilation provides a window into the fundamental beliefs that undergirded Day’s life of faith. Publishers weekly, starred review in this guidebook Dorothy Day offers hard-earned wisdom and practical advice gained through decades of seeking to know Jesus and to follow his example and teachings in her own life.
Unlike larger collections and biographies, and amazing life story, which cover her radical views, exceptional deeds, this book focuses on a more personal dimension of her life: Where did she receive strength to stay true to her God-given calling despite her own doubts and inadequacies and the demands of an activist life? What was the unquenchable wellspring of her deep faith and her love for humanity? Harper Perennial.
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Gravity and Grace Routledge Classics Volume 41
In it gustave thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. Gravity and grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first english edition - by routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of the controversial chapter on Israel.
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The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
. Harper Perennial. Routledge. In march 2018 pope francis announced that the catholic church would canonize Oscar Romero, and that the political and social implications of that message, acknowledging that he is indeed a saint who was martyred for proclaiming the gospel, which so scandalized the powerful, flowed directly from Romero’s faithfulness to the teachings of Jesus.
These selections from romero’s diaries and radio broadcasts invite each of us to align our own lives with the way of Jesus that lifts up the poor, wins over enemies, welcomes the broken, and transforms the history of entire nations.
Simone Weil: An Anthology
It amply confirms elizabeth hardwick's words that Simone Weil was "one of the most brilliant and original minds of twentieth-century France" and "a woman of transcendent intellectual gifts and the widest learning. A longtime weil scholar, sian miles has selected essays representative of the wide sweep of Weil's work and provides a superb introduction that places Weil's work in context of her life and times.
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The Two Ways: The Early Christian Vision of Discipleship from the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics
For the most part, these writings have remained buried in academia, analyzed by scholars but seldom used for building up the church community. The shepherd was written by a former slave named Hermas in the second century AD or possibly even earlier. Harper Perennial. Now, these simple, at a time when christians of every persuasion are seeking clarity by returning to the roots of their faith, direct teachings shed light on what it means to be a follower of Christ in any time or place.
The didache, an anonymous work composed in the late first century AD, was lost for centuries before being rediscovered in 1873. Routledge. Used book in Good Condition.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties NYRB Classics
This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil’s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys. In “on the abolition of all political parties” she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world.
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Routledge Classics Volume 72
She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Routledge. New york Review of Books. Used book in Good Condition. Routledge. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. Harper Perennial. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.
In 1942 she fled france along with her family, going firstly to America. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger.
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
Working mostly separately and in ignorance of one another's ideas, the five developed a strikingly consistent argument that the only means by which democratic societies could be prepared for their world-wide economic and political dominance was through a renewal of education that was grounded in a Christian understanding of the power and limitations of human beings.
H. Eliot, C. These christian intellectuals-Jacques Maritain, T. New york Review of Books. A war won by technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war society governed by technocrats. By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Lewis, W. S.
Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage
Eliot, flannery o'connor, Adrienne Rich, and Albert Camus. Routledge. Used book in Good Condition. Robert Coles, M. D. Was awarded the pulitzer Prize for his five-volume Children of Crisis series. Coles also analyzes the major themes her life encompassed: her politics, her Jewish identity, her moral concerns, her intellect, and her experience of grace.
This is the best, most accessible introduction to the woman who was a spiritual influence on the life and work of so many, among them T. New york Review of Books. A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial figure in twentieth-century spirituality. S. Harper Perennial.