Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings - Modern Spiritual Masters

Jacket Description/Back: For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine. Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The Self -- Knowledge of the Soul -- Experiencing It All -- Prayer as Pathway to the Soul -- Solitude, Silence, and Detachment -- 2. The World -- The Single Life -- The Discipline of Work -- Simplicity of Speech and Lifestyle -- Humility in Confessing One's Faults -- 3. Self And World as One -- Sadness, Suffering, and Patience -- Ethics of Love -- Surrender and Accepting Death -- Finding God in All Things. Publisher Marketing: For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine. Publisher Marketing: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a young Dutch Jewish woman, died in Auschwitz at the age of 29. This volume, drawn from her letters and diaries, lays out the themes of her distinctive and inspiring spiritual vision. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 54 (EAN 9781570758386, Paperback)

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Contributor Bio:  Kidder, Annemarie S Annemarie S. Kidder is a German-born theologian and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, South Lyon, Michigan. She has translated and edited Karl Rahner's The Mystical Way in Everyday Life, and is the editor of Etty Hillesum: Spiritual Writings.