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  • From: JHForest AT cs.com
  • To: percy-l AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu
  • Cc: JHForest AT cs.com
  • Subject: re: source of quote?
  • Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:19:41 EST

The Walker Percy List isn't dead after all. That's good news.

>> "Christianity is so on target because at the heart of it is the
acknowledgment that man has a problem; that man is in deep,
deep trouble." <<

It sounds far more like Percy than Tolstoy. Tolstoy, busy warring
with the Russian Orthodox Church, saw himself as a Christian
prophet, but had a pretty low opinion of Christianity as such unless
it was willing to be remade along Tolstoyan lines. I doubt he would
have enjoyed Walker Percy's company.

By the way, I have a book just out called "Confession: Doorway to
Forgiveness."  One of the chapters has a long quote from Percy's
"Thanatos Syndrome." The chapter is web posted at:

www.incommunion.org/conf.htm .

Jim Forest

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