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[Dorothy Day] was political only in the sense that she could not live in peace with a social order that caused so much hunger and suffering. She was political in the sense that she saw that the gospel had to do with life as a whole, not only with how I live but how WE live together. She believed that the gospel challenges ALL that makes life wretched. (less)

[Dorothy Day] was political only in the sense that she could not live in peace with a social order that caused so much hunger and suffering. She was political in the sense that she saw that the gospel had to do with life as a whole, not only with how I live but how WE live together. She believed that the gospel challenges ALL that makes life wretched. (less)

[Dorothy Day] was political only in the sense that she could not live in peace with a social order that caused so much hunger and suffering. She was political in the sense that she saw that the gospel had to do with life as a whole, not only with how I live but how WE live together. She believed that the gospel challenges ALL that makes life wretched. (less)

[Dorothy Day] was political only in the sense that she could not live in peace with a social order that caused so much hunger and suffering. She was political in the sense that she saw that the gospel had to do with life as a whole, not only with how I live but how WE live together. She believed that the gospel challenges ALL that makes life wretched. (less)

Monumental in scope and erudition. The hidden, deformed and denied roots of Western political and economic theory in Christian theology. Not for the prejudiced minds.

Just discovered it. Monumental in scope and erudition. Christian theology as the hidden, deformed and denied origins of Western and political theories.

J´ai des enfants et des petits-enfants et je dois admettre que j´ai peur...Il se passe dans notre monde quelque chose de toujours plus épouvantable...Dans le monde actuel nous voyons...des gens, de plus en plus nombreux, prêts à mourir pour tuer des innocents qu´ils n´ont jamais vus....nous vivons dans un monde ouvert...à des possibles effrayants, surtout pour nous, qui appartenons à la partie privilégiée du monde..

J´ai des enfants et des petits-enfants et je dois admettre que j´ai peur...Il se passe dans notre monde quelque chose de toujours plus épouvantable...Dans le monde actuel nous voyons...des gens, de plus en plus nombreux, prêts à mourir pour tuer des innocents qu´ils n´ont jamais vus....nous vivons dans un monde ouvert...à des possibles effrayants, surtout pour nous, qui appartenons à la partie privilégiée du monde..

J´ai des enfants et des petits-enfants et je dois admettre que j´ai peur...Il se passe dans notre monde quelque chose de toujours plus épouvantable...Dans le monde actuel nous voyons...des gens, de plus en plus nombreux, prêts à mourir pour tuer des innocents qu´ils n´ont jamais vus....nous vivons dans un monde ouvert...à des possibles effrayants, surtout pour nous, qui appartenons à la partie privilégiée du monde..

clearly a masterpiece

the illuminating power of mimetic theory at its best, with a lot of clarifications on its connections with, and role in evolution.

Possibly the best in the Reacher series

The self is constituted by rivalry born of desire even before we become aware of it: Genesis makes Jacob and Esau rivals even in the womb!

... [what is} catholicity: while every local culture tends to build its frontiers by means of victims, it is only if we begin from the forgiving victim that we can build a culture which has no frontiers, because we no longer have to build any order, security, or identity over against some excluded person, but the excluded one himself gives the identity by allowing us to share in the gratuity of his self-giving.

The kingdom comes not as a bulldozing universal force of secularization, but as the task of building, on every violent frontier, a little tale of the overcoming of the particularity of the group, by recovering its victims.

"After all, We're all God's children." Of which God are we the children? This can be deduced from our practical behavior...