Living truth : A spiritual portrait of Pierre Ceresole

by Keith R. Maddock

Pamphlet, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

CP 379/1

Publication

Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2005.

ISBN

087574379X / 9780875743790

Local notes

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 379

Description

Author Keith Maddock goes beyond Ceresole’s actions to paint a portrait of the spiritual growth of a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us to set aside our theories and our fears and instead take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just, and peaceful world.

User reviews

LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
This biography of an inspiring poetic and spiritual man is unfortunately written rather boringly. Ceresole, 1878-1945, was a pacifist, and Swiss, who became a Quaker. He founded in 1920 an international work camp to rebuild a French village; this developed into the Service Civil International,
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organizing work camps for volunteers to repair and rebuild after war and natural calamities. It still exists.
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LibraryThing member kaulsu
Swiss activist Pierre Ceresole certainly seems to have walked the walk. He went to prison for a variety of things: taking his message of peace to both Germany and Italy, and lambasting his own government to give up their neutrality in the face of evil, among others. Maddock includes snippets of
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Ceresole's writings. Especially poignant are some of the prayers he wrote.
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