Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Weil, Simone
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Weil, Simone

Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is...
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Author: Simone Weil
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Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Weil, Simone

Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

$18.23
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Weil, Simone

Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us

$18.23
Author: Simone Weil
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.

Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic?

Albert Camus called Simone Weil "the only great spirit of our time." Andréeacute; Gide found her "the most truly spiritual writer of this century." Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich.

The body of work she left-most of it published posthumously--is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey.

After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. But more importantly, she pointed the way, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of God - in love to neighbor, love of beauty, and even in suffering.



Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Published: 05/04/2018
Pages: 134
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780874868302


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/09/2018
Library Journal 06/01/2018 pg. 74

About the Author
Weil, Simone: - Born in 1909 to a Jewish family in Paris, Simone Weil had a privileged childhood. An academic prodigy, she left a teaching career to become a factory worker in order to better feel and know the afflictions of the working class. Though drawn to pacifism, she went to Spain to fight the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. An agnostic, her hunger for beauty, virtue, and goodness was fed by her conviction that anyone can enter "the kingdom of truth" if only "he longs for truth and perpetually concentrates all his attention on its attainment." She never conceived of the possibility of a "real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God" until one day "Christ himself came down and took possession of me." Though she would remain religiously unaffiliated her entire life, the reality of this experience never left her. Simone Weil fled France when the Nazis invaded and joined the French resistance in London. In solidarity, she committed to eating the same rations as the men at the front. During the summer of 1943, she contracted tuberculosis and, weakened by malnourishment, she died within weeks.
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