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Pär Lagerkvist · 1950
A philosophical novel about Barabbas, the criminal spared when Christ was crucified, who struggles throughout his life with faith, doubt, and the search for meaning in a world without God. Lagerkvist explores the modern crisis of belief through the ambivalent spiritual journey of his protagonist.
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What this book knows
A man who cannot believe and cannot disbelieve lives the modern crisis of faith as a first-century curse.
faith-and-doubt
Where our fathers were blessed with unquestioning faith, we must wrestle with doubt and accompanying confusion. No book better captures this internal struggle.
BP-RC-004On the front it says he is property of the Roman State; on the back he has scratched symbols showing him a follower of Christ. Still later he scratches this out.
BP-RC-002He rushed around panting with God's crossed-out name on his chest. He did not fail. He did not fail him.
BP-RC-085self-and-identity
Was he the right one? The saviour of all mankind? Then why didn't he help her? Why did he let her be stoned for his sake?
BP-RC-049Where were they? Where was he to find them? Were they not here then? And where was he himself?
BP-RC-082mortality
A man stood with his eyes riveted on the dying man in the middle, watching his death-throes from the first moment to the last. His name was Barabbas.
BP-RC-008Illuminates
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