Books by "John V. H. Dippel"
2 books found
Looks at the motivations behind the polar expeditions of the last three centuries, arguing that these men risked their lives for ambition and not the advancement of science or national pride.
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Yet the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God, and had mostly kept silent during the Holocaust. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the largest, yet most undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history?