Books for Believers:
Toolan, David
IN BRIEF Books For Believers, by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., Paulist, $6.95, 135 pp. I suppose all of us recall certain books that changed things forever for us, that metamorphosed the world and our...
...Not a list of "Christian classics," Schroth's choices nonetheless exhibit his catholic and journalist's tastes, ranging from the Bible and C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves through Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter and Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon to works by Studs Terkel, Tom Wicker, J. Anthony Lukas, Henry David Thoreau, and Karl Rahner...
...Andre Schwartz-Bart's Last of the Just and The Autobiography of Malcolm X were others...
...The combinations, all eminently readable, are electric and may blow the mind—which is just the idea...
...These are the ones that have counted memorably for him (and his students), as he makes clear in a series of lively autobiographical essays introducing each one...
...John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was one of those for me...
...Only the last is included in Raymond Schroth's list of thirty-five titles ' 'that every Catholic ought to read.'' No matter...
...D.T...
...I suppose all of us recall certain books that changed things forever for us, that metamorphosed the world and our sense of place in it...
Vol. 115 • September 1988 • No. 16
