QUIET AND PEACEABLE LIFE

Opis produktu

 : : : : : : : : : John L. Ruth a Mennonite storyteller/historian captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays along with photographs poetry and quotations. If the plain people of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns we must consider sympathetically their own expressions and the biblical cadences they echo. : : : : : : : : : : Having maintained with the tolerance of their society a simple life as the quiet in the land these folk still prize such passé: virtues as modesty humility and obedience to Gods will as interpreted by a disciplined community of faith. Their values difficult to appreciate in a world bemused by progress are seldom if ever articulated except as curiosities in our mass media. John L. Ruth in A Quiet and Peaceable Life.

Data Publikacji: 1997-09-01
Wymiary: 215.9 mm 139.7 mm 10.16 mm 5.12 oz 145.15 gr