RT Article
T1 Harvard Divinity School Convocation Address September 1982
JF Harvard theological review
VO 75
IS 3
SP 267
OP 274
A1 Borowitz, Eugene B.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1982
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784647373
AB Conscious of the dignity of this occasion and of the honor bestowed upon me to speak to this convocation, I prepared an address which, I hoped, responded to a major religious concern we Americans share. This weekend, when the Rosh Hashanah celebration ended, I learned of the massacre at Shatila and Sabra. The event and the response to it by Jewish leaders have filled me with such moral anguish that I find the text I have ready inadequate to this time of pain. But I have not found the wisdom, or the power, perhaps because I have not had the courage, to discard what I wrote and address myself to this spiritual calamity. I hope you will understand and that God will forgive my yielding to prudence rather than heeding my conscience. For I have decided to continue now with the address I wrote for this occasion.
DO 10.1017/S0017816000018368