Karl Stern on Jesus Christ

        1.)   "Someone once remarked that you should try experimentally to live for one day as if the Gospel were true, even if you do not believe it. In the same way I invite you to think of the nature of Man if Christ had been God-Man and died for your and my salvation.The whole study of anthropology as conceived by philosophers and psychologists is at once deepened in a very peculiar way. It is as if a great, but albeit two-dimensional, picture received a third dimension and came to life. If, as Auden once remarked, it is the function of the poet to introduce order into chaos, then God is our poet."

        2.)   "Christianity teaches that the climax of human perfection is to love infinitely and to be able to be hated infinitely. This degree of maturity has been reached perhaps only once in human history, in the person of Jesus Christ."

The Pillar of Fire, Karl Stern, pp. 207- 8;  p. 249

Book Worth Reading

Title:  Black Man You Are on Your Own
Author: George Sombe Mukuka
Publisher: www.publishamerica.net/product47859.html

            What did I like about this book? 1.) The subject matter: Apartheid in South Africa, in the Church, in the seminary, in the priesthood, and how Black Consciousness fused with the Gospel message of Christ to change institutional structures and make the Church more the family of God it is called to be. 2.) The methodology: the depth of research, the documentation, the interviews, the oral history, the scholarly organization of the materials, and the impartial presentation of a raw slice of life that is part of South African history, which deserved to be preserved, and would otherwise have been ignored and forgotten.  3.) The style: direct, clear, objective  narration of explosive issues that could easily have been mishandled by a less competent writer.