Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography.

The Christian Century | February 4, 1998| | Copyright

By Kathryn Spink. HarperSanFrancisco, 306 pp., $23.00.

In the publicity material accompanying this biography the copy writer describes Mother Teresa as "another great humanitarian." That description gets it quite wrong. Humanitarians serve humanity, while Mother Teresa's goal was to serve concrete individuals as she and her companions met them in the specific situations of their lives. She was not much given to speaking about saving the world or humanity. In Bengali, she would say Ek. Ek. Ek: one by one by one.

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