Marked for Life
The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayer
by Richard Deats
GoodBookStall Review:
This is the story of Hildegard Goss-Mayer who, at eighty years old, is still active in her mission to spread the message of the power of non-violence. Austrian by birth, she lived through the horrors of Nazism and World War ll and saw the spread of dictatorship and colonialism in the wider world. She has travelled widely, lecturing and preaching her gospel of peace and reconciliation, not always welcomed by repressive regimes nor among armed revolutionaries. She recommends an “active” non-violence, even at times encouraging civil disobedience. Her convictions are based on life-affirming Christian principles, in particular the non-violence of Jesus and his message of love and reconciliation. She declares that there are no just wars, that you can achieve radical change without bloody revolution. Married until his death to the French peace activist Jean Goss, she has won several peace awards and is still making lecture tours and giving seminars in all parts of the world. Richard Deats knows her well as friend and colleague and here gives us an intimate and compelling account of a remarkable life.
Reviewer: John Irvine (04/08/10)
This is the story of Hildegard Goss-Mayer who, at eighty years old, is still active in her mission to spread the message of the power of non-violence. Austrian by birth, she lived through the horrors of Nazism and World War ll and saw the spread of dictatorship and colonialism in the wider world. She has travelled widely, lecturing and preaching her gospel of peace and reconciliation, not always welcomed by repressive regimes nor among armed revolutionaries. She recommends an “active” non-violence, even at times encouraging civil disobedience. Her convictions are based on life-affirming Christian principles, in particular the non-violence of Jesus and his message of love and reconciliation. She declares that there are no just wars, that you can achieve radical change without bloody revolution. Married until his death to the French peace activist Jean Goss, she has won several peace awards and is still making lecture tours and giving seminars in all parts of the world. Richard Deats knows her well as friend and colleague and here gives us an intimate and compelling account of a remarkable life.
Reviewer: John Irvine (04/08/10)
