Born in 1901 and baptized a Catholic at age six, Caryll Houselander lived through two world wars, and by the time of the second she had already been marked by the first. Her first-hand experience of the suffering of human beings in war, which she equated with the suffering Body of Christ, led to her first book, This War Is the Passion. Other books followed, all circling around the Christ-life. Indeed, Houselander's one aim in life, as she discovered from adolescence onward (although it would take many year for her to state it this way), was to see the suffering Christ in humanity. Her own life was cut short by cancer, at the age of 53. For those new to Houselander as well as those who have read and been moved by her writings, particularly her uncanny understanding of the Gospels, this is a timely and enlightening entree to her life.
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