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Fortress Press (1978), Edition: First Edition, 154 pages
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In this seamless translation by David L. Scheidt, Dorothee Soelle asks "Is religion a matter of how I treat other people, or is it a private and subjective thing?" How does it involve the "mystical inward journey to the center of my own being?"
Dr Soelle shares the insights of the Psalms, Dietrich
My impression is that Soelle repeatedly liberates Religion from itself. She links the religious experience of Jesus and psychology--finding the wholeness of both. Religion is for her an essential key to relationship, from the personal identity to external reality.
This deep work fits among her many works, and reflects her "alternative" return-journey of the radical Christian tradition, "which stands in irreconcilable contradiction to the given system". She clearly hopes to "help us make our exodus out of Egypt".
Dr Soelle shares the insights of the Psalms, Dietrich
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Bonhoeffer, and the Golden Bird of Grimm's Fairy Tales, to illuminate an original interpretation of these questions. My impression is that Soelle repeatedly liberates Religion from itself. She links the religious experience of Jesus and psychology--finding the wholeness of both. Religion is for her an essential key to relationship, from the personal identity to external reality.
This deep work fits among her many works, and reflects her "alternative" return-journey of the radical Christian tradition, "which stands in irreconcilable contradiction to the given system". She clearly hopes to "help us make our exodus out of Egypt".
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