Some Chose to Stay

"Plague is an apt metaphor to describe much of the gratuitous evil in our world. Alan Mermann sets out to study the various ways by which we respond to the appearance of plague in our communities. Using plague both as reality and as metaphor, he looks at the role of faith in guiding and sustaining us toward ethical responses. He documents and discusses the responses that we make by using a variety of literary sources. Real plague, like the bubonic plague, and metaphorical ones like race, industrialization, ecosystem destruction, etc., are discussed in the context of poetry, novels, scientific writing, and autobiography."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: The presence of evil-both natural and moral-in the world raises consistent and understandable doubts about the existence of a loving and powerful God.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Editions

1

Pages

229

ISBN

9781573926249

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