Book Review: Tolerance and Hospitality as Virtues

Abstract

Introduction:  In the wake of several ugly incidents on and around our campus last year, one of the college pastors gave an important chapel talk in which he eloquently and pointedly denounced hatred. As is our custom, after the talk we sang a hymn; «Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round» was on the program. I don’t know if everyone noticed the line, «We would be one in hatred of all wrong,» but I did. An attitude which we denounce and to which in the same breath we aspire seems to reveal the need either to clarify our concepts or to revise our aspirations.