Christian de Cherg\u00c3\u00a9 was a Trappist monk who, with six of his monastic brothers, was killed in Algeria in 1996. The exact circumstances of their deaths remain disputed. They were abducted by a band of radical Islamists, in the midst of a horrendously violent period of civil-religious strife. Only their severed heads were subsequently recovered. To what degree did the Algerian army play a role in their deaths, and with what assistance from French security advisers, wittingly or unwittingly?<\/p>\n
Rather, de Cherg\u00c3\u00a9 gave his life as a reconciling gift thrown into the midst of the hostility and violence associated with antagonistic diversities. His was a witness made quintessentially within our late modern culture of fragmented \u201cglobalized\u201d\u009d hopelessness….<\/p>\n
Christian Salenson\u2019s Christian de Cherg\u00c3\u00a9: A Theology of Hope (a translation of the 2009 French original) follows in step with the temper of the times, and takes up the [interest in the] Christian-Muslim… [angle of his thought]. Although this approach has its limitations, the volume, in all of its austere precision and accessibility, is of the highest quality, and deserves to be read as a necessary introduction to de Cherg\u00c3\u00a9\u2019s thought. SRead it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christian de Cherg\u00c3\u00a9 was a Trappist monk who, with six of his monastic brothers, was killed in Algeria in 1996. The exact circumstances of their deaths remain disputed. They were abducted by a band of radical Islamists, in the midst…<\/span><\/p>\n