Philip Hallie (1922–1994)
Autor de Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Hallie, Philip
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1994-08-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University
University of Oxford (Jesus College)
Grinnell College - Ocupaciones
- philosopher
professor emeritus - Organizaciones
- Wesleyan University
United States Army (WWII)
Center for Advanced Studies
Vanderbilt University - Premios y honores
- Fulbright Fellowship
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- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 706
- Popularidad
- #35,871
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 12
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 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… (más)