The Final Revolution.

Commonweal | April 9, 1993| | Copyright

THE FINAL REVOLUTION

George Weigel

Oxford University Press, $25, 255 pp.

How does the church in Eastern Europe react to fervent new nationalisms, to those who collaborated with the once-hated Communist regimes? How did the church perform in the political tragedy that stole fruitful lives from so many people during the cold-war years? What role did the church play in the 1988-89 revolutions?

For the answers, one must look to the past forty years of oppression and pain. George Weigel's The Final Revolution, and Owen Chadwick's The Christian ...

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