Challenge Parables; Part 1

chapter 3
Challenge Parables: Part 1
Down from Jerusalem to Jericho

The French intellectual André Gide lived from 1869 to 1951. His search for honesty and integrity— a search at once sexual and social, political and religious— led him first to revere and then speedily to revile Russian Communism in the 1930s. It also resulted in his receiving Sweden’s Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947 and the placing of his books on the Vatican’s Index of Forbidden Books in 1952, just after his death...