mijtje's review
3.0
I liked the 30% I understood. The other 70% made me think: “What does he mean?”, “how did he get to this conclusion?” and “I have no idea what these words mean or who these people are”.
Apart from that a cool collection of pretty lines and philosophical ideas. A bit too philosophical for my taste, however.
Apart from that a cool collection of pretty lines and philosophical ideas. A bit too philosophical for my taste, however.
timhoiland's review
4.0
“When Jesus spoke about loving one’s enemies, he used a fairly provocative statement that was intended to arouse consciences lulled by stereotypically repeated clichés and half-truths about people who are ‘different’ and to unsettle our seeming certainties about who ‘we’ and ‘they’ are, how we are and they are, what we are supposed to think about ‘foreigners,’ and how we are to treat them. If we have felt the need to replace Jesus’s enacting requirement with the softer word tolerance, doesn’t that indicate that we’re still running away from what Jesus expects from his followers?” – Tomáš Halík
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