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
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Philip Hallie
Obres associades
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Hallie, Philip
- Data de naixement
- 1922
- Data de defunció
- 1994-08-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Educació
- Harvard University
University of Oxford (Jesus College)
Grinnell College - Professions
- philosopher
professor emeritus - Organitzacions
- Wesleyan University
United States Army (WWII)
Center for Advanced Studies
Vanderbilt University - Premis i honors
- Fulbright Fellowship
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 703
- Popularitat
- #36,025
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 12
- ISBN
- 17
- Llengües
- 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… (més)