Silence, ch. 8-10

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Silence, ch. 8-10
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Small groups

• Should Rodrigues have apostatized? Why or why
  not?
• Was he faithful?
• Do you think Christs speech (161, 171) answers
  the problem of Gods silence in the face of such
  suffering?
• Who is Christ, for Rodrigues, by the end of the
  novel?
• What do you think of this image of Christ?

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Salvadoran crucifix (contemporary)
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Stations of the Cross, University of Central
America chapel (San Salvador
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Statue of St. Agnes, From Nagasaki Recovered
after 1945 (U.N. headquarters, NY)