The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality - Softcover

Coffin, William Sloane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611680247 ISBN 13: 9781611680249

Verlag: Dartmouth College Press, 2011

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Book by Coffin William Sloane

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Library Journal" "Passionate, sometimes angry, yet never defeatist, Coffin reads as vibrantly and dynamically as he has lived. His confrontational tone serves as a challenge to anyone willing to engage this old moral warrior."-Library Journal "Passionate, sometimes angry, yet never defeatist, Coffin reads as vibrantly and dynamically as he has lived. His confrontational tone serves as a challenge to anyone willing to engage this old moral warrior."-- "Library Journal" Passionate, sometimes angry, yet never defeatist, Coffin reads as vibrantly and dynamically as he has lived. His confrontational tone serves as a challenge to anyone willing to engage this old moral warrior. Library Journal"

Reseña del editor:

William Sloane Coffin offers here a powerful antidote to the politics of the religious right with a clarion call to passive intellectuals and dispirited liberals to reenter the fray with an unabashedly Christian view of social justice. Refusing to cede the battlefield of morality to conservatives, he argues that "compassion demands confrontation," as he considers such topics as homophobia, diversity, nuclear weapons, and civil discourse. Coffin became famous while chaplain at Yale in the 1960s for his active opposition to the Vietnam War. Jailed as a civil rights"Freedom Rider," indicted by the government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, he attained popular immortality as Reverend Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. The seven pieces collected here are peppered with memorable aphorisms and pithy, political one-liners meant to turn bitterness to anger and anger to action.

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• Verlag: Dartmouth College Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611680247
• ISBN 13: 9781611680249
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96