It was discussed as a novel that speaks to the current predicament of having abundant freedom and opportunity, which can be terrifying to some people. It was described as a Christian existentialist novel.
There was a novel by Par Lagervis, who was a Swedish Nobel Prize winning author in the early 50s called Barabbas. And it's what he does is he follows the story of Barabbas, the thief who was ransomed...
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It was discussed as a novel that speaks to the current predicament of having abundant freedom and opportunity, which can be terrifying to some people. It was described as a Christian existentialist novel.
There was a novel by Par Lagervis, who was a Swedish Nobel Prize winning author in the early 50s called Barabbas. And it's what he does is he follows the story of Barabbas, the thief who was ransomed in place of Jesus, you know, by punctious tyrant, the crowd says, let Barabbas who's a killer and a rapist and a thief go free. And we want you to crucify Jesus instead.
And it follows his journey. It's a very it's a great book. It's really wonderful. And it speaks, you know, as a Christian existentialist novel, but it really speaks to our current predicament if we want to call it that where it's like, we have been given, you know, unbelievable freedom and opportunity in the US, in Europe, in more and more parts of the world, where more than half of the people on the planet now, according to the UN and to the Brookings Institution live at a middle class or higher lifestyle.