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This page displays photos of people, places, and objects that are referred to in the text of Clint Gardner's book, BEYOND BELIEF: Discovering Christianity's New Paradigm.
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| 1. Clint Gardner meets with Elie Wiesel at his Boston University office in November of 2002. They are looking at a map of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp which Clint found in the camp commander's office in April 1945. Clint has just presented this copy of the map to Wiesel. In April 1945 Clint had been made acting commander of the camp and Wiesel was in the camp's hospital. |
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| 2. The little leather-bound New Testament that Clint Gardner carried in his backpack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. His longhand note on the left page, written May 30, 1941, reads: "The spirit is shared by many, but the common understanding by few. Problem is to find the best words to explain those things which need to be taught. This is not a matter of mechanics but of the the spirit. When writing concerning what is true, state your ideas positively, as the truth, not as suggestions. Ex [example] State definitely that the kingdom of God is here and will continue to grow." A similar thought is expressed in Chapter 12 of BEYOND BELIEF. |
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| 3. Lieutenant Clint Gardner's army picture, age 20, December 1942. |
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| 4. Clint Gardner's helmet, as it was split open by a mortar fragment on Omaha Beach at 5 p.m on June 6, 1944. An officer from the Imperial War Museum told Lt. Gardner that the hole in his helmet was the largest on record, for a survivor, in either World War I or II. (Referred to in BEYOND BELIEF at end of Chapter 1). |
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| 5. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy in his study at Four Wells (probably in the late 1940s). |
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6. Yuri Zamoshkin (right) visiting the Norwich, Vermont home of Mary and Peter Teachout, April 1983. |
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7. Andrei Sakharov’s autograph, February 16, 1987. |
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| 8. At the Solovyov Society's first international conference in St. Petersburg, on September 7, 1991, Elena Reshetnikova draws the Cross of Reality on a blackboard. Here the cross displays, on the arrow pointing to past time, the Russian for "We" and Ivan Kireevsky's expression "ruling loves" (discussed in BEYOND BELIEF Chapter 10). |
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| 9. Standing next to Vladimir Solovyov's gravestone in Moscow, on September 13, 1991, are Clint Gardner, George Kline, and Oksana Klimovskaya. They have just completed leading a ceremony to mark the refounding of the Vladimir Solovyov Society (as described in BEYOND BELIEF, Chapter 10). |
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| 10. The 1993 Russian edition of Clint Gardner's book, Between East and West: Rediscovering the Gifts of the Russian Spirit (referred to in chapters 6 and 9 through 11 of BEYOND BELIEF). Published by Nauka, Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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| 11. At the Solovyov Society's second international conference, July 8-11, 1992 at Dartmouth College, left to right, are: Jack Matlock, former US Ambassador to the USSR; Father Benjamin, Vice Rector of the Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy; and Yuri Karyakin, a leading Russian Dostoevsky scholar. Father Benjamin, Jack Matlock, and the Dartmouth conference appear in Chapter 10 of BEYOND BELIEF. |
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