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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Guinness, one of evangelical Christianity's few public intellectuals, matches his usual seriousness of purpose with exceptionally lucid prose as he explores the nature of evil—a topic he was scheduled to address at a dinner in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. That was not Guinness's first brush with suffering on a geopolitical scale: he was born in China to missionary parents, and while he and they barely escaped with their lives during the 1949 revolution, Guinness's two brothers did not. This personal dimension authenticates, but never dominates, the book, which focuses on seven questions that evil raises for those seeking to live "an examined life." The scope is ambitious, from the ancient "trilemma" of how an all-powerful, benevolent God can permit evil to the technology that makes us all witnesses to far more suffering than we can respond to. Guinness's answers are rarely predictable. He argues strenuously against the contemporary reticence to call evil by name, yet he also warns against the hypocrisy that sees evil only in others—singling out America's torture of prisoners in Iraq. His Christian convictions are evident, but he engages respectfully with those who do not share them. This bookmakes a compelling case for faith, and courage, in the face of evil's dark reality.
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From Booklist
Guinness feels the world has lost touch with evil, and thereby forsaken the ability to define and deal with it. He takes issue with critics of President Bush for pronouncing the 9/11 attacks as evil, and he disparages those who mistake suffering for evil. He eloquently draws the distinction between evil and suffering, then exhorts us to recognize that evil lies within our hearts and to avoid perpetrating it, or turning a blind eye to its perpetration by others. Guinness cites numerous authorities to support his points--for instance, memorably quoting Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel address, "Let the lie come into the world and even dominate the world--'but not through me.'" Pointing out many recent events that reprise shameful evils from the past, Guinness notes not only world leaders who denounce the Holocaust yet ignore atrocities in Bosnia and Rwanda but also all those who turn away from such horrors. Coping with evil will take more than a truce in the blame game between secularism and religion, he says; only true collaboration will work. Donna Chavez
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Guinness, one of evangelical Christianity's few public intellectuals, matches his usual seriousness of purpose with exceptionally lucid prose as he explores the nature of evil—a topic he was scheduled to address at a dinner in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. That was not Guinness's first brush with suffering on a geopolitical scale: he was born in China to missionary parents, and while he and they barely escaped with their lives during the 1949 revolution, Guinness's two brothers did not. This personal dimension authenticates, but never dominates, the book, which focuses on seven questions that evil raises for those seeking to live "an examined life." The scope is ambitious, from the ancient "trilemma" of how an all-powerful, benevolent God can permit evil to the technology that makes us all witnesses to far more suffering than we can respond to. Guinness's answers are rarely predictable. He argues strenuously against the contemporary reticence to call evil by name, yet he also warns against the hypocrisy that sees evil only in others—singling out America's torture of prisoners in Iraq. His Christian convictions are evident, but he engages respectfully with those who do not share them. This bookmakes a compelling case for faith, and courage, in the face of evil's dark reality.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Guinness feels the world has lost touch with evil, and thereby forsaken the ability to define and deal with it. He takes issue with critics of President Bush for pronouncing the 9/11 attacks as evil, and he disparages those who mistake suffering for evil. He eloquently draws the distinction between evil and suffering, then exhorts us to recognize that evil lies within our hearts and to avoid perpetrating it, or turning a blind eye to its perpetration by others. Guinness cites numerous authorities to support his points--for instance, memorably quoting Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel address, "Let the lie come into the world and even dominate the world--'but not through me.'" Pointing out many recent events that reprise shameful evils from the past, Guinness notes not only world leaders who denounce the Holocaust yet ignore atrocities in Bosnia and Rwanda but also all those who turn away from such horrors. Coping with evil will take more than a truce in the blame game between secularism and religion, he says; only true collaboration will work. Donna Chavez
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 68 books Explore: Citations | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: instinctive questions, secularist intellectuals, modern evil, biblical family, horrendous evil (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: World War, |