Philip Hallie (1922–1994)
Autor(a) de Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There
About the Author
Obras por Philip Hallie
Associated Works
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hallie, Philip
- Data de nascimento
- 1922
- Data de falecimento
- 1994-08-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University
University of Oxford (Jesus College)
Grinnell College - Ocupações
- philosopher
professor emeritus - Organizações
- Wesleyan University
United States Army (WWII)
Center for Advanced Studies
Vanderbilt University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fulbright Fellowship
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 706
- Popularidade
- #35,871
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 17
- Línguas
- 4
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… (mais)