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1st Edition

Waiting for God

By Simone Weil Copyright 2021
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a political... Read more

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Janet Soskice

Foreword to the 1979 Edition  Malcolm Muggeridge　

Part 1: Letters

1. Hesitations Concerning Baptism

2. Same Subject

3. About Her Departure

Part 2: Letters of Farewell

4. Her Spiritual Autobiography

5. Her Intellectual Vocation

6. Last Thoughts

Part 2: Essays

7. Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God

8. The Love of God and Affliction

9. Forms of the Implicit Love of God

10. Concerning the 'Our Father'

11. The Three Sons of Noah and the History of Mediterranean Civilization.

Index

Biography

Simone Weil (1909–1943) was one of the great theologians, philosophers and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith, spirituality and philosophy have inspired many subsequent thinkers. Several of her other books, including The Need for Roots and Oppression and Liberty, are also available in Routledge Classics.

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