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There can be many obstacles to faith. As Art Lindsley says, "Lewis knew what it was like not to believe. He struggled with many doubts along the way to faith. Since he was an ardent atheist until age thirty-one, Lewis's experience and education prepared him to understand firsthand the most common arguments against Christianity." As a scholar and teacher of literature at Oxford, Lewis confronted many questions: Aren't all religions just humanly invented myths? Doesn't evil in the world indicate an absence of any personal or loving God? Why should what is true for one person be true for me, especially when it comes to religion? How can anyone claim that one religion is right? Why follow Jesus if he was just another good moral teacher? This book provides a readable introduction to Lewis's reflections on these and other objections to belief in Jesus Christ and the compelling reasons why Lewis came to affirm the truth of Christianity. Art Lindsley is a helpful and reliable guide to the voluminous and sometimes challenging writings of Lewis for both seekers and those who want to grasp their own faith more deeply.
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The Heart Has Its Reasons.......2007-03-09
Art Lindsley's C.S. Lewis's CASE FOR CHRIST: Insights from Reason, Imagination and Faith came to me unbidden through the generosity of a devout, kind, proselytizing Christian. Therefore, though I am not a member of the choir, clearly the book, preaching to this group as it does, will be warmly received by its members, who would be scandalized by Richard Dawkin's THE GOD DELUSION (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Daniel Dennett's BREAKING THE SPELL (Viking Adult, 2006) or Bertrand Russell's WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN (Touchstone,1957). The unison praise of the book's other reviewers in this space attests to this. Coming from a different place, it is hoped the reader will consider my observations to be respectfully challenging about the books "arguments from reason." On the other hand, as Dr. Lindsley, a senior fellow at the C.S. Lewis Institute in Springfield, VA., also emphasizes in the subtitle reference to "Imagination and Faith", we share agreement with the 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal who, in his classic defense of Christian religion wrote: "The heart has its reasons which reason does not know" (Pensees, Number 277).
First, some comments are, perhaps, in order about the choice of C.S. Lewis as an apologist for Christianity. Lewis is avidly cast in this role in the United States and his writings are, indeed, often apologetic. However, in his homeland on the other side of the big water he is seen by many as quirky or weird or even bullying. A.N. Wilson's biography C.S LEWIS: A BIOGRAPHY (W.W. Norton, 1990) is sometimes unflattering, sometimes unfair. Alan Jacob's biography is more admiring (THE NARNIAN, HarperSanFrancisco, 2006).
Knowing something about Lewis's personality through these and other authors, he seems an odd choice to adopt as a defender of the faith. Beyond his inventive mind and the glisten of his prose, he was so tractable (even late in life he came close to renouncing his god), and so persistently troubled. He grew up in a Protestant Belfast family and at four, when his dog died, insisted that he thereafter be called by his dog's name Jacksie, later shortened to Jack. At thirteen he became an atheist because he couldn't imagine a god who would design a world "so frail and faulty" - thus joining, at an early age, others who have complained the creator should not have rested on the seventh day. He was wounded in WW I and moved in with Jane Moore, the mother of an Army buddy who had been killed in battle. They lived together for many years until she became senile and died. Both of the biographers mentioned above and her daughter believe they were lovers though Mrs. Moore never divorced her husband from whom she was separated. As an Oxford Don, Lewis became a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and through Tolkien, on a lengthy perambulating conversation that lasted from dusk to dawn, accepted Christianity and its coalescence with myth and mysticism. His favorite argument for the belief in Jesus was that Christ didn't seem to be either a liar or crazy so he must be a god just as he said he was.
In CASE FOR CHRIST, Lindsley appears to set up a number of straw men who are unconvinced by Christian beliefs. For examples: "What does a two thousand year old religion have to do with me?"; "Isn't belief in God just a crutch for needy people?"; "Is what was true for C.S. Lewis necessarily true for me?"; "Aren't morals relative?" Perhaps some who are questing for faith might slightly stumble over these questions but it is hard to imagine them as hurdles.
At the same time, Lindsley's chapters about more fundamental questions, for examples, "The problem of Evil" and "Other Religions" did not seem penetrating and were sometimes illogical. For instance, his recourse to the "burden of proof" (p. 85), the "appeal to popularity" (p. 120) and the "appeal to consequences of belief" (p. 178) are well known logical fallacies.
The problem of evil was, of course, what turned thirteen year old Lewis from faith to atheism. Then, later, as a Christian apologist, his Panglossian answer was that evil showed that "the world had gone wrong" and that pain can direct people to the right path. When Lewis's wife Joy, who he married years after Jane died, succumbed to cancer, he came for a time to believe in a malevolent god. Some of his diary thoughts remind one of Jung's ANSWER TO JOB (Princeton Univ. Press, 1958) and had he died in the midst of this anger at god his place as an apologist would have died with him. As for other religions, Lewis argues, these do not include incarnation, which he considers an essential qualifier for the true religion. And, as indicated above, since Christ said he was God, it must be true.
Dr. Lindsley's knowledge of C.S. Lewis, integration of the literature and clear style will be appreciated by his readers but, as he says"...most of the [religious] doubts we battle are not intellectual but of emotional or spiritual origin." This echoes Pascal, the eminent philosopher, physicist, inventor and mathematician who obviously had extraordinary intellectual tools. Yet, in the face of a challenge to theistic belief that John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell might raise, such as "Who made God?" he would remind us "The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things that are beyond it." Finally, there is Faith.
By the end of the book, Lewis will be a dear and trusted friend.......2006-02-14
C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ is a concise and contemporary retelling of the famous author's beliefs. There is something in these pages for everyone. Those who are already familiar with Lewis will have a resource that highlights his key thoughts, while those new to him will follow his journey from atheism to a vibrant faith in Christ.
The book was creatively written within the framework of a bookstore discussion. A group of fictional people meets each week to talk about the author. This setting allows the reader a chance to pull up a chair and join them. The characters that participate in this forum are diverse, and probably reflect an accurate sampling of the book's audience.
Author Art Lindsley's knowledge of Lewis is beautifully complemented by his admiration of the author. He reveals interesting facts about Lewis's personal life and then provides a spiritually sensitive look at the obstacles that held him back from a belief in Christ. The pages offer a penetrating mix of Scripture and logic.
The author writes as if Lewis was a dear and trusted friend, and by the end of book, he will be to every reader. Most impressive are the clear explanations of the reflections of Lewis. Although some of these ideas have baffled brilliant minds throughout history, these pages offer an understandable summary. Lewis was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, and now all readers can be acquainted with his profound insights.
Yet, the most wonderful thing about this book is that it has the potential to lead people to a saving knowledge of the truth. The obstacles that hindered Lewis' faith in God are still present today. These pages offer a unique resource for opening discussions along those lines. -- Joyce Handzo, Christian Book Previews.com
Case Closed .......2006-01-18
On New Year's Day, I had a 2-hour discussion with a friend who believes in God but does not believe that Jesus was His Son. She said she believed that Jesus was a great prophet but nothing more. (No, she is not Jewish.) Because I am both a Christian and a great respecter of my friend's intellect, our talk disturbed me.
Later that same day, I stopped by a bookstore to get some calendars - you know, 50% off and all that. Anyway, I got the calendars and wandered around a bit, looking for a couple of specific books. On my way to these other books, I noticed a display of C.S. Lewis books at the end of an aisle. And at the top of the display was a book I had not until that moment knew existed: C.S. LEWIS'S CASE FOR CHRIST by Art Lindsley. Hmm. I felt like looking heavenward and going, "Hit me over the head with a two-by-four, why don't You?"
The book is not, as I thought it would be, a parable by parable, story by story examination of Jesus' life with all the evidence neatly trotted out as to why we should believe he was who he said he was. Rather, the book gives Lewis' reasons for choosing Christianity - which by its name indicates a belief in Jesus as the Christ - over other world religions.
One chapter titled "Myth: Isn't Christianity just one myth among many?" was especially helpful to me. I recently returned from a trip to the Vatican; while there, the gargantuan size of St. Peter's, the statues, the sight of Pope Benedict on the balcony, stirred feelings of unease in me. There were moments when it was too Hollywood, too much like hero worship. I began to look about and wonder what separated this elaborate and amazing story from other stories like, for example, The Lord of The Rings? I read the "Myth" chapter, and it went a long way towards calming my fears and dispelling my doubts; it helped me to see that the story of Christ has things about it that lift it above mere mythology. It was a relief!
For a person who has never read any of C.S. Lewis' works, this book, with Lindsley as your guide, would be a good place to start. Art Lindsley, a senior fellow at the C.S. Lewis Institute, has put together from Lewis' writings a convincing argument for the choice of Christianity over other faiths. I will definitely be sharing it with my friend.
For those of you who may have the same faith in Lewis as I do and
go to him regularly to be "talked" through doubt and confusion, you will enjoy this book and will also understand the need for the words that Lindsley gives his character John at the end of the book. John, the leader of a discussion group about C.S. Lewis tells a participant the following: "I can give you a good reading list, but remember faith in Christ is more than just satisfying your intellect. C.S. Lewis would not want people to focus on his personality or even his books. He wanted to point beyond that to Jesus."
A Must Read for CS Lewis fans! A Superb Defense of Faith.......2005-09-29
I am a huge fan of CS Lewis and of Dr. Lindsley's clear reasoning and eloquent argumentation; so, naturally when I saw this book, I immediately picked it up and read it with great enthusiasm. Admittedly, I went through the book rather quickly and will revisit it often for its clarity and to use as an aide in forming well-framed intellectual, imaginative and caring arguments in defense of faith in Christ.
Dr. Lindsley's treatment of Lewis's work provides the reader with a digestible overview of CS Lewis's intellectual and spiritual odyssey into the fullness of Christ that is remarkably clear. This book provides the reader with a wealth of resources, excerpts and personal stories. Dr. Lindsley weaves together many of the questions that people have when they come to the works of CS Lewis and to the very questions of Christianity. Dr. Lindsley documents the rigor of CS Lewis's intellect opening (or re-opening) thoughtful readers to the wonders and skill of Lewis's work.
The book is laid out in 14 chapters and contains a bit of "dialogue" between a set of individuals who are meeting together to discuss Lewis's work in a modern bookstore setting. The reader is drawn into the conversation and through it can see what types of questions people often have when they come to Lewis's body of work. You may even be able to identify some of your own questions. If you come to this book already holding a belief in Jesus Christ as Savior, Dr. Lindsley's treatment will help you to formulate your own defense and responses to the questions that appeal to our time through the lenses of CS Lewis. If I had to pick the best chapter out of this book, it'd have to be the one in regard to relativism since Dr. Lindsley goes into a bit more depth on one of my favorite works by Lewis, "The Abolition of Man." The chapter on Postmodernism is great also. I am amazed at how well Dr. Lindsley can articulate and refute many of the claims of full-fledged Postmodernism in so few pages! I find myself agreeing with his assessment of how CS Lewis would respond to Postmodernity; the good and the bad alike.
This book will be a valuable tool in my library as well as one that many of my friends will indeed receive as a gift!
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Confronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.
The early narratives were shaped by a strong belief in original sin and spiritual redemption, by the idea that all murders were natural manifestations of the innate depravity of humankind. In a dramatic departure from that view, the Gothic imagination--with its central conventions of the fundamental horror and mystery of the crime--seized upon the murderer as a moral monster, separated from the normal majority by an impassable gulf. Halttunen shows how this perception helped shape the modern response to criminal transgression, mandating criminal incarceration, and informing a social-scientific model of criminal deviance.
The Gothic expression of horror and inhumanity is the predominant response to radical evil today; it has provided a set of conventions surrounding tales of murder that appear to be natural and instinctive, when in fact they are rooted in the nineteenth century. Halttunen's penetrating insight into her extraordinary treasure trove of creepy popular crime literature reveals how our stories have failed to make sense of the killer and how that failure has constrained our understanding and treatment of criminality today.
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Fascinating Study of our Gothic Fascination with Murder.......2000-10-04
Karen Halttunen's book is a wonderful introduction to true crime narratives from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century. This is a strategic period as the narratives changed from execution sermons to more secular, gothic-tainted narratives that, in turn, influenced the way we look at murder to this day. This general look at this period is an excellant broad view of this period that can be enhanced by Patricia Cline Cohen's Murder of Helen Jewett and Amy Gilman Srebnick's The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers, two significant murders from this period that demonstrated and influenced the changes that are part of Murder Most Foul. It is a fascinating period and interesting topic that is very well served by this book. I can sadly see my own prurient interest in these accounts but it comforting to see some of it explained in a historical sense.
Haven't read it yet, but look forward to it!.......2000-03-15
Just had to put my two cents in. I had Karen's class on Society and Culture during the Industrial Revolution about 5 years ago and it was THE most fascinating class I have ever had. Ideas I learned in that class still come up even in random small talk. Makes me regret I majored in literature. I look forward to getting my hands on this book! Thanks Karen for being such a great instructor!
A dark and gory history lesson.......2000-01-11
Haltunnen has conducted a thorough research of early American execution sermons, court records, news articles, and novels dealing with murder and murderers. Her findings are chilling: men who murdered their wives or their entire families, women who murdered their newborn babies, people who murdered out of jealousy, guilt, or pure hatred, or for reasons unclear. Her focus is on the way the public reacted to these murders throughout history: early sermons portrayed the murderers as ordinary sinners, and the message was that anyone could fall prey to sin; later, the image of the murderer changed into that of grotesque moral monster, and accounts of the murder itself and the suffering of the victim became much more detailed.
Surprisingly hard to put down, this book is a valuable reference for changing societal attitudes about crime, sexual behavior, and morality. The individual accounts are riveting, but often sketchy, as they are placed in the context of a rhetorical discussion. Some accounts are mentioned only briefly, and then mentioned again in a later chapter; the reader often has to consult the index to get a full account of any one crime, and even then, many details are missing, left to haunt your imagination.
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"On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead." It doesn't help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business...and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI.
Mac has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be psychic and is, unlike his two brothers, somewhat screwy. And he refuses to claim a share in the Fairweather fortune. But he shares some good news with Mac--his Uncle Val has died and left him a house. The two friends drive out to Celosia, a half hour away, where they discover a local beauty pageant in trouble and a house just perfect for setting up shop. A Psychic Shop. The arrival of lawyer Olivia, Jerry's shark-like girlfriend, rouses both Mac's interest in the mystery at the pageant and the one in her own heart. And then comes the first murder....
A Case of Imagination is Jane Tesh's playful first mystery, the start of a series by an author who admires Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Carl Hiaasen, and P.G. Wodehouse.
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A Great Read!.......2006-03-19
A friend recommended this book to me and I just finished it. It turned out to be a fun and captivating mystery-romp through the world of a small-town "beauty" pageant. The reader is kept guessing throughout which of this collection of characters might have had a motive to commit a murder (it seems any one of them could). All this is through the eyes and voice of the main character--Madeline, ex-beauty queen turned sleuth--who has two concurrent agendas: find the murderer and fer God's sake profess her love and enfatuation with her best buddy, Jerry. (SAY IT, MADELINE! JUST SAY IT!). Great fun--I see that there's another in the series on the way; I look forward to it.
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Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct.
We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane: very real threats like a killer flu or an American Hiroshima have become so common that they have lost their ability to shock us. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should.
A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.
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Be Afraid, be very afraid...........2006-07-03
Worst Cases pulls readers in two directions. First, it encourages us to embrace worst cases. Hard thinking about worst cases, we are told, opens new possibilties. Envisioning worst case scenarios may allow us to reduce the probability of their emergence, reduce the time to recovery or both. It is the thesis of this book that, even in th is very nervous world, insufficient thought is being given to the possibility of worst cases. Second, in the other direction, this is a book that convinces you that no how matter bad you thought things could get, they can get a lot worse. Professor Clarke does this in two ways. First, he revisits every notable modern historical disaster, sans Katrina. The familiar are all here: the Titanic, 9/11, the San Francisco earthquake and others. Also present are historical catastrophes that have been eclipsed by more recent events, like the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. Second, and this is key, it is not the past but the future that adds to the anxiety. My particular favorite, of which I would otherwise have been blissfully ignorant (thank you Professor Clarke) is the near earth object (asteroids, meteors, and the like). NEOs, Clarke tells us, are tracked by NASA. No easy task since there are hundreds of them! A recent example: XF11, a mile in diamter, it would have released the equivalent of a million megatons of of energy (think nuclear). XF11 drifted safely by ( in the late 90s), but there are more pleny more where it came from; indeed, as Clarke warns, "it may only be a matter of time."
Ultimately, Clarke wants us to think less about probabilities, than possibilities. The former, he claims, misleads us into under-stating worst case possibilities. This argument falls a bit short. Even Clarke has to defer to probabilities when confronting the possibility that the lab at Bookhaven could create black holes. In such cases, he says, we have to use "possibilities" in a sensible way. This strikes me as simply another way of saying that not all possibilities merit attention, but such conclusions are made possible only by the very probabalistic reasoning against which he cautions. That aside, this book deserves the wide readership it is likely to attract because, truth is, we really do need to take seriously our vulnerability to the untoward.
Grave Diggers as Critical Infrastructure.......2006-02-17
Great book for emergency planners. A professor who teaches disaster management once said, "think big, really big". He is right. This book explores the realm of low-probability, high consequence events and realistic planning for them or the futility of planning. Lee Clark talks about critical infrastructure, how it relates to the social fabric of society and once a disaster strikes, critical infrastructure changes, hence, grave diggers, may be very important in the recovery phase. This book is a must in every emergency planners professional library.
Changed my attitude about disaster planning.......2005-12-28
I'm responsible for disaster recovery in my organization. We had typically used what Clarke calls _probabilistic_ thinking: focusing our plans on recovering from the most likely disasters.
This book helped me see the danger of ignoring unlikely worst cases--and was a great read. Clarke makes an excellent and entertaining argument that the infinity of not-completely-predictable worst case _possibilities_ make it quite probable that a worst case will occur, and that planning for extremely low probability events is a crucial part of disaster planning.
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Case of Imagination [LARGE TYPE EDITION]
Jane Tesh
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"On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead." It doesn't help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business...and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI.
Mac has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be psychic and is, unlike his two brothers, somewhat screwy. And he refuses to claim a share in the Fairweather fortune. But he shares some good news with Mac—his Uncle Val has died and left him a house. The two friends drive out to Celosia, a half hour away, where they discover a local beauty pageant in trouble and a house just perfect for setting up shop. A Psychic Shop. The arrival of lawyer Olivia, Jerry's shark-like girlfriend, rouses both Mac's interest in the mystery at the pageant and the one in her own heart. And then comes the first murder....
A Case of Imagination is Jane Tesh's playful first mystery, the start of a series by an author who admires Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Carl Hiaasen, and P.G. Wodehouse.
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Collective Dreams: Political Imagination & Community
Keally D. Mcbride
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How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate without having much real impact on social change provides an opportunity to explore the difficulties of practicing critical theory in a capitalist society.
Different chapters investigate how ideals of community intersect with conceptions of self and identity, family, the public sphere and civil society, and the state, situating community at the core of the most contested political and social arenas of our time. Ideals of community also influence how we evaluate, choose, and build the spaces in which we live, as the author's investigations of Celebration, Florida, and of West Philadelphia show. Following in the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Keally McBride reveals how consumer culture affects our collective experience of community as well as our ability to imagine alternative political and social orders.
Taking ideals of community as a case study, Collective Dreams also explores the structure and function of political imagination to answer the following questions: What do these oppositional ideals reveal about our current political and social experiences? How is the way we imagine alternative communities nonetheless influenced by capitalism, liberalism, and individualism? How can these ideals of community be used more effectively to create social change?
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Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century (Studies in Science and Culture, 3)
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The issues may change with the passing of the years, but the categories of concern change very little: sexuality and the sexes; medical decision-making; justice for the poor, the powerless, the underclass; reproductive decision-making; moral decision-making in business; and personal moral choices. Stevens attempts to present alternative positions on hotly debated new moral issues from a different standpoint, using an ethical pluralism approach. In doing this, he hopes to help readers arrive at their own non-polarized positions by learning from and respecting all parties in the discussion.
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Developing Moral Confusion..........2001-04-10
This is, hands down, one of the worst theological books I've ever read. Stevens is attempting to mediate between "relativism" and "absolutism" by providing supposedly thought-provoking middle-ground insights (called "PO"s) on a variety of "live" issues in a "non-ideological" way. He fails miserably. Not only is he obviously biased in his presentation, this work is in desperate need of editing. His articulation of opposing positions is caricatured and weak, and the numerous sources he draws from are entirely random and largely unscholarly ("Dyke Life"?).
The only redeeming value I saw in this book was the possibility of using it as a case study in how NOT to write a book or argue -- the via negativa. BOOOOOOOOOO.
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- Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering
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