Ebook251 pages4 hours
Testimony
By Paul W. Kahn
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
On her seventy-fifth birthday, the author's mother confessed to an affair more than three decades past. His father's response was unforgiving. Her need to confess met his limitless rage. She acted out of love; he sought revenge. Their battle consumed everything and everyone around them. In the middle of this struggle, she was diagnosed with cancer. Two years later, she died.
Testimony is a son's memoir of this struggle. Paul Kahn finds here a story of the twentieth century, beginning with poverty in the Depression and immigration from Hitler's Germany. He follows his father's experience of the war and his return with PTSD. He traces his parents' movement through the turbulent 60s. More than a study of twentieth-century culture, Testimony is a philosophical inquiry into the possibility of faith in a secular age. History, philosophy, and theology flow together as Kahn finds in his parents' lives the resources for a series of essays on the nature of truth, memory, death, and faith. Testimony is most of all a meditation on love in a time in which the very possibility of faith is constantly put to the test.
Testimony is a son's memoir of this struggle. Paul Kahn finds here a story of the twentieth century, beginning with poverty in the Depression and immigration from Hitler's Germany. He follows his father's experience of the war and his return with PTSD. He traces his parents' movement through the turbulent 60s. More than a study of twentieth-century culture, Testimony is a philosophical inquiry into the possibility of faith in a secular age. History, philosophy, and theology flow together as Kahn finds in his parents' lives the resources for a series of essays on the nature of truth, memory, death, and faith. Testimony is most of all a meditation on love in a time in which the very possibility of faith is constantly put to the test.
Read more from Paul W. Kahn
Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Putting Liberalism in Its Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Testimony
Related ebooks
The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFor the Gospel's Sake: The Rise of the Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUndoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA New History of Redemption: The Work of Jesus the Messiah through the Millennia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIncarnational Ministry: Being with the Church Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Numbers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScripture, the Genesis of Doctrine: Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, vol 1. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCoping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWar on Sacred Grounds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Business as Usual, Revised Edition: Vestry Leadership Development Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCreationism in Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYe That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creation and Ecology: The Political Economy of Ancient Israel and the Environmental Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Scandalous People: Ephesians on the Meaning of Christian Faith and Human Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Maxine Hong Kingston's "On Discovery" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of Philip Melanchthon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEgerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Defense of Religious Moderation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Distinctive People: A Thematic Study of Aspects of the Witness of Baptists in Scotland in the Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing Methuselah: Theology, the Body, and Slowing Human Aging Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnity as Prophetic Witness: W. A. Visser 't Hooft and the Shaping of Ecumenical Theology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDietrich Bonhoeffer and Neo-Calvinism in Dialogue: Perspectives in Public Theology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAre You Persuaded?: In and Out of Being a Bishop Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Biography & Memoir For You
A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wright Brothers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Eating Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related categories
Reviews for Testimony
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Testimony - Paul W. Kahn
_8Pa book_preview_excerpt.html }\۲Ǒy8{y!dȴ-QkI}l4r@=ffU
[ ̥YYx}7e8}i27Ƈ.W|/oޏrsl.}ľgͼc3<9{Jۀ9>/16mÜ&\.1Lal$",o1Ok9Sk܄hwfMМiju^[p+oJJR}}[ϡ,MB8SIߦOm>%k+c&ox!t?ޝÅRi^=F?Nr=4rtWtM4-.`37Oa6<%{c/8xSq7ePR3|/ˁG(fuV$y4.q8ZJ([tH}Zq,)#V#cYG}3baFJY"g3 zvqqht2pۢ
6ra5O
NxrX D_(B'=O3byyP8`[fIV"ʰBS]stfw ƣpLb<p/J%=_eC