Love in the void
Subtitle: where God finds us
By: Simone Weil ; edited by Laurie Brands Gagne
Contributors: Gagné, Laurie Brands, 1951- editor
Series: Plough spiritual guides backpack classics for modern pilgrims; Plough spiritual guides, backpack classics for modern pilgrims
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780874868302
Subjects: Spirituality; Christianity
Work titles: Works
Description: Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God. Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic? Albert Camus called Simone Weil "the only great spirit of our time." André Gide found her "the most truly spiritual writer of this century." Her intense life and profound writings have influenced people as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Charles De Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, and Adrienne Rich. The body of work she left -- most of it published posthumously -- is the fruit of an anguished but ultimately luminous spiritual journey. After her untimely death at age thirty-four, Simone Weil quickly achieved legendary status among a whole generation of thinkers. Her radical idealism offered a corrective to consumer culture. But more importantly, she pointed the way, especially for those outside institutional religion, to encounter the love of God -- in love to neighbor, love of beauty, and even in suffering.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reflections on the right use of school studies; title: The love of our neighbor; title: Love of the order of the world; title: Implicit and explicit love; title: The one who fills the void [or gravity and grace]; title: The love of God and affliction.