by Richard John Neuhaus. In this posthumous volume, Neuhaus (Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus on the Cross) offers some well-wrought reflections on what it means to be an American who is aware that he or she is "in exile," on pilgrimage to a heavenly homeland. We are all, he argues, in between. We must care for our place of exile and care for one another but not settle down. He makes an eloquent case for the role of religion in this care for the community and considers the issue of bioethics, the role of Jews in salvation history, whether atheists can be moral, and the need for hope. (Check Catalog)
Monday, April 27, 2009
American Babylon : notes of a Christian exile
by Richard John Neuhaus. In this posthumous volume, Neuhaus (Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus on the Cross) offers some well-wrought reflections on what it means to be an American who is aware that he or she is "in exile," on pilgrimage to a heavenly homeland. We are all, he argues, in between. We must care for our place of exile and care for one another but not settle down. He makes an eloquent case for the role of religion in this care for the community and considers the issue of bioethics, the role of Jews in salvation history, whether atheists can be moral, and the need for hope. (Check Catalog)
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