Philip Hallie (1922–1994)
Auteur de Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Philip Hallie
Oeuvres associées
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contributeur — 178 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hallie, Philip
- Date de naissance
- 1922
- Date de décès
- 1994-08-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- Harvard University
University of Oxford (Jesus College)
Grinnell College - Professions
- philosopher
professor emeritus - Organisations
- Wesleyan University
United States Army (WWII)
Center for Advanced Studies
Vanderbilt University - Prix et distinctions
- Fulbright Fellowship
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 706
- Popularité
- #35,871
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 17
- Langues
- 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… (plus d'informations)