Letter to a Priest Paperback - 2003
by Weil, Simone
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Simone Weil, the renowned French philosopher and political activist, originally wrote this letter to a priest in the autumn of 1942 while waiting in New York to join the Free French movement. The most accessable discussion that exists of her complicated ideas on religion and her lifelong spiritual struggle, Letter to a Priest outlines thirty-five key questions about Catholicism, its dogma and institutions, all of which had preoccupied Weil for years. Each point reveals Weil's simultaneous feelings of attraction and repulsion toward the Church as she contemplated its presence in her own life. In her letter, Weil asks the priest to reply categorically to each point she raises and to indicate whether her opinions will allow her to be received into the Church. Written just a year before she died at the age of thirty-four, it is believed that Weil never received a reply to this letter.
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- Title Letter to a Priest
- Author Weil, Simone
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 85
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2003-02-25
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0142002674.G
- ISBN 9780142002674 / 0142002674
- Weight 0.17 lbs (0.08 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.06 x 0.29 in (19.74 x 12.85 x 0.74 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002034603
- Dewey Decimal Code 282
