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Gateway to God
English, French (translation)
- GenresPhilosophyNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1974
About the author
Simone Weil
234 books1,393 followersSimone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range".
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May 29, 2020
interesting introduction to Simone Weil’s life and thought. at its best, her words are poetic, persuasive, and sensitive. i’m not used to theological writing so some of it needed further unpacking on my part to fully grasp some of her more obscure and abstract points about the nature of god, but i found her ruminations on good, truth, affliction, and the unity of faiths (rather than syncretism) to be compelling. for such a slim book, it feels quite expansive, and i would recommend to anyone interested in Weil.
August 9, 2015
Simone Weil is one of those people whose name keeps coming up so was glad to grab the opportunity to read some of her work. This is a collection of some of her writings, sections of essays, and a letter to a priest. I'm not sure I'm smart enough to quite understand everything she was trying to say, but that didn't spoil the book for me. Richard Rohr's writings came into mind sseveral times while reading hers as I've read him first, but again that was fine by me.
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