H keith melton biography of mahatma gandhi
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The Man Who Met Gandhi and Hitler
What did a man, who encountered both Gandhi and Hitler, say about the prospects of non-violence? The comparison is startling, but at least one journalist covered both persons: William Shirer. Hitler is regarded by many as the most concrete incarnation of devilry ever seen. Dr. E. Stanley Jones said that “one of the most Christlike men in history was not called a Christian at all.”1 He was Gandhi, a Hindu. For Christians, this is an eye-popping and controversial statement, yet there emerges from this juxtaposition a serious question: what is the role of non-violence, and more specifically pacifism, in the world today? Reinhold Niebuhr, while admiring Gandhi, was also very critically aware of the strengths and limits of non-violence. Pacifism was even heretical, according to Niebuhr’s standards. So, what did Shirer have to say about these two men who, in moral terms, could not be farther apart? And how does this inform our ideas about non-violence and war?
On February 23, 1904, William Shirer was born. Though best known for his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, he also produced a biography of the father of modern India, Gandhi, A Memoir. Shirer came away from
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian freedom activist (1869–1948)
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