Exsules Filii Evae: The Banished Sons of Eve

by Stephen Hoffman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587361736
• ISBN13: 9781587361739
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Iceni Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

"Intrinsic moral evil"

Stephen Hoffman's brilliant first novel could not be more timely. In 1986, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- the new Pope Benedict XVI -- issued a letter to the bishops on the "pastoral care of homosexual persons." The letter described gays as "intrinsically disordered" and homosexuality as a "tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil." Most who were gay and Catholic will never forget when Ratzinger's letter came out. It was so stunning in both its breadth and depth of condemnation. This is the struggle of Adrian Underwood, the thoughtful protagonist of the novel. Hoffman's novel incisively captures the universal desire to unite a deep and abiding need for a belief in God with the human limitations of such faith on earth. Underwood and Eileen O'Rourke, his spritual counterpoint, are confronting the same issue from differing ends of life's spectrum. Hoffman's prose is completely evocative of the novel's setting--both in the decade of the 1980s and in the geography of a small midwestern city. Hoffman brilliantly captures not only the spiritual and philosophical matter but the simple and ordinary rhythms of daily life.