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Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion

Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion

Kraft, Karen M.
Bingemer, Maria Clara

Paperback

PhilosophyReligious BiographiesReligion General

ISBN10: 071889426X
ISBN13: 9780718894269
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Dec 31 2015
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A reflection on the French philosopher and mystical thinker Simone Weil, exploring her spiritual convictions from a theological perspective.

In Simone Weil, Maria Clara Bingemer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic of the same name. It constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a Europe where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a sinister manner, toward WWII, this woman of fragile health but indomitable spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist system, the brutality of Nazism, and the paradox of bourgeois thought. At the same time, her spiritual journey was one of zeal and sorrow - that of a true mystic - but her radical intransigence and passion for freedom kept her from fully committing to the institutional church. Curious and insatiable, she wanted to experience, in the flesh, the suff ering of society's least fortunate and the truths of other religions.

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