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Praise for Garry Wills's Saint Augustine "This brilliant biography, this excellent small book, presents with brio the life of a person who still stirs us, throws us off, speaks to us, heart to heart. Garry Wills's agile mind matches the agility of St. Augustine.
--New York Times Book Review "Not often, but every now and then, a truly gifted film director takes up well-known material... and turns a subject with which we thought we were thoroughly familiar into something once again strange and challenging... Garry Wills's Saint Augustine has done this. Seldom has a long-familiar figure, whose works fill thirteen double-columned volumes in the standard edition, and whose life and thought have been debated for sixteen hundred years, emerged so fresh and challenging, from so masterful a 'director's' hand... A deft and ingenious expositor set to work upon a great thinker."
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--New York Times Book Review "Not often, but every now and then, a truly gifted film director takes up well-known material... and turns a subject with which we thought we were thoroughly familiar into something once again strange and challenging... Garry Wills's Saint Augustine has done this. Seldom has a long-familiar figure, whose works fill thirteen double-columned volumes in the standard edition, and whose life and thought have been debated for sixteen hundred years, emerged so fresh and challenging, from so masterful a 'director's' hand... A deft and ingenious expositor set to work upon a great thinker."
--The New York Review of Books
Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reprint. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills What The Quran Meant coming fall 2017The truth we are told will make us free It is time to free Catholics lay as well as clerical from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin Paler subtler less dramatic than the sins castigated by Orcagna or Dante these are the quiet sins of intellectual betrayalfrom the IntroductionFrom Pulitzer Prizewinning author Garry Wills comes an assured acutely insightfuland occasionally stingingcritique of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the presentPapal Sin in the past was blatant as Catholics themselves realized when they painted popes roasting in hell on their own church walls Surely the great abuses of the pastthe nepotism murders and wars of conquestno longer prevail yet the sin of the modern papacy as revealed by Garry Wills in his penetrating new book is every bit as real though less obvious than the old sinsWills describes a papacy that seems steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself its past and its relations with others The refusal of the authorities of the Church to be honest about its teachings has needlessly exacerbated original mistakes Even when the Vatican has tried to tell the trutheg about Catholics and the Holocaustit has ended up resorting to historical distortions and evasions The same is true when the papacy has attempted to deal with its record of discrimination against women or with its unbelievable assertion that natural law dictates its sexual codeThough the blithe disregard of some Catholics for papal directives has occasionally been attributed to mere hedonism or willfulness it actually reflects a failure after long trying on their part to find a credible level of honesty in the official positions adopted by modern popes On many issues outside the realm of revealed doctrine the papacy has made itself unbelievable even to the welldisposed laityThe resulting distrust is in fact a neglected reason for the shortage of priests Entirely aside from the public uproar over celibacy potential clergy have proven unwilling to put themselves in a position that supports dishonest teachingsWills traces the rise of the papacys stubborn resistance to the truth beginning with the challenges posed in the nineteenth century by science democracy scriptural scholarship and rigorous history The legacy of that resistance despite the brief flare of John XXIIIs papacy and some good initiatives in the 1960s by the Second Vatican Council later baffled is still strong in the VaticanFinally Wills reminds the reader of the positive potential of the Church by turning to some great truth tellers of the Catholic traditionSt Augustine John Henry Newman John Acton and John XXIII In them Wills shows that the righteous path can still be taken if only the Vatican will muster the courage to speak even embarrassing truths in the name of Truth itself. Seller Inventory # DADAX0385494114
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