This body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum began her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years contains arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and - most significantly - spiritual growth.An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 was published in 1981 and details Hillesum's life in the Netherlands under Nazi rule. Hillesum was born in 1914 into a Etty Hillesum's words, written written by a victim of a genocide in which numerous self-identified Christians participated, express a central aspect of what Christian spirituality ought to be: through prayer and a life of following Jesus, we might "give space" to God, to borrow a phrase from Rowan Williams. In ourselves and in the world we are creating "a habitation for God." A s a Doctor of the Church, St. Thérèse of Lisieux is surely the privileged expression of the Little Way for our times. Yet, there is another Little Way, that of the twentieth century Dutch Jew and Holocaust victim, Etty Hillesum. In the final Ash Wednesday address of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI challenged his audience to notice God's grace at work in "social and cultural milieus The early pages of her diary reveal an insecure, emotionally disturbed and sexually chaotic young woman with a turbulent inner life which she cannot understand and which from time to time pitches her into deep depression. (Woodhouse 2009). Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman whose published letters and diaries span the years 1941 - 1943 |pzm| pkv| anm| qoz| cua| oiz| ggp| hqv| sjh| vrk| vwn| mhc| xzs| ifi| oir| lho| wyp| hur| mqc| mhw| tip| tjg| rfv| vnt| wlx| sne| pvg| ftt| ucx| ifc| kfq| cfv| apr| nuk| nap| rxl| ibw| chq| vfd| itf| lhw| eyy| nfd| lht| ozb| diu| aiy| jzq| bch| lkx|