Revolutionary patience

by Dorothee Solle; translated by Rita and Robert Kimber.

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984, c.1977.Dorothee Soelle enjoyed a solidly-established reputation as theologian in both Europe and the United States.  With disarming simplicity, the prayer-poems in this book reflect the author’s own deep Christianity as she attempts to make sense, in the light of the Gospel, of a world brutally scarred by oppression, filled with cries of the hungry and the hunted. These poems are also prayers, of a kind rarely heard in our churches, but disturbingly evocative of Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus. These pages offer stones, not bread, for any who might open them looking for spiritual comfort or consolation. Yet, for those with ears to hear, ‘Revolutionary Patience’ will also be a treasured experience as Dorothee Soelle’s lines sing and sting their way into the reader’s mind and heart. [from Google books]

Originally published as Meditationen & Gebrauchstexte (1969) and Die revolutionäre Geduld (1974).