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A Philosopher's Tale
The year is 1978. Fr. O’Prehley is a personable young Irish priest with an appreciation of Greek philosophy who finds himself conflicted by what he is bound by obedience and dogma to extol and not to extol from the pulpit. He is shepherding a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Valentine in Dublin when a philosopher mysteriously joins the flock for the evening’s storytelling. O’Prehley is dispatched to Boston as a proxy for his omniscient bishop who realizes that his priest is on the verge of harvesting the pearl of great price. It is here, at a symposium on the divorce epidemic in the Western world that great things are fully revealed culminating in a profound irony, if not, for the supremacy of oneness. Challenging, profound and insightful; the melding of Platonic idealism and enlightenment philosophy is A Philosopher’s Tale – "the healing salve" - dedicated to marriage, for its goodness, and forgiveness, that greatest of doctors without whom…
112 pages, Paperback
Published December 16, 2020
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