No Exit by Sebastian Moore (GT491)

Published 1968: First Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Pictorial stiff card covers. 151 clean and bright pages, small friary stamp on the first free page. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (GT491)

Postage €4.00.
An Post prepaid postage envelopes within the Republic of Ireland, with no weight restrictions from €6.95.

The fingers of 'one hand are more than adequate to tick off the modern ""spiritual writers"" who can actually write. Sebastian Moore is one of those blessed few. His style is that of a formidably literate and articulate, and a theologically sophisticated, Malcolm Boyd; and his material, though it is perhaps presented with less pariache than that of the flamboyant Boyd, is no less revolutionary in its implications. No Exit is a plea for understanding of Christ as a man who was not content to exist ""in a vacuum, as most of his followers have been content to do,"" but as an enigmatic product of his time and thus, as the ultimate human sign of contradiction. In a series of nineteen essays, or meditations, Dom Sebastian manages to do what tons of dusty neo-Thomistic tomes have failed to accomplish; he removes Christ from the realm of theological abstractions and presents him as a historical figure who is, if not wholly intelligible in human terms, then at least susceptible to identification with humans in human situations. Not the least of the author's accomplishments is that he succeeds in delighting as well as in eludicating. And who can remember the last time that happened in a religious book?

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/sebastian-moore/no-exit/

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2008
This book is an attempt to get at the political significance of the death of Jesus, and to challenge overly familiar and pious theological cliches. It combines insight, clarity, confusion, devotion, and bafflement in a way I have never encountered before. If more books were like this, there wouldn't have to be so many.

'The scholars play with a static "before", the theologians play with a static "after", and in between these two thieves the Lord is crucified.'
One person found this helpful

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Exit-Sebastian-Moore/dp/