Title
By Way of Moral Beauty
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
Reviewing the book, Jason Steger captures the incident with one prisoner who ...finds his hands shaking so much he can't handle the rope; the condemned man turns to him kisses his hand and eases his head into the noose. The dignity and humanity the young prisoner demonstrated moments before his death - and the disdainful refusal of the other condemned men to plead for their lives - no doubt served over time to reinforce my conviction that moral resistance in the face of evil is no less courageous than physical resistance, a point that has unfortunately been frequently lost in the debate over the lack of greater Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. [...] they tell of ordinary people doing extraordinary things faced by the most degrading and repellent settings of evil.
Recommended Citation
Ryan, T. (2011). By way of moral beauty. Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, 45(1), 24-29.
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