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Pastor Guenter Rutenborn, who is somewhere in East Germany, wrote The Sign of Jonah immediately after the war, for a Germany that was standing shocked and beaten in the rubble of the Third Reich. The one-act play was intended only for a church group, but so intimately did it speak to the anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sentencing of God | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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