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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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Jim & Nancy Forest
Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands
Jim's e-mail: <jhforest AT cs.com>
Nancy's e-mail: <forestflier AT cs.com>
tel: (+31-72) 511-2545 / fax: (+31-72) 515-4180
Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site: http://www.incommunion.org
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source of quote?,
Henry P. Mills, 03/06/2002
- Re: source of quote?, Brian Neuschwander, 03/06/2002
- Re: source of quote?, Sean Winkel, 03/07/2002
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re: source of quote?,
JHForest, 03/07/2002
- re: source of quote?, David Alan Beck, 03/07/2002
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- re: source of quote?, Parlin, Steven, 03/07/2002
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re: source of quote?,
Joseph Cimino, 03/07/2002
- re: source of quote?, Wade Riddick, 03/09/2002
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