Silence, ch. 8-10

Small groups

• Should Rodrigues have apostatized? Why or why not?– Was he faithful?

• Do you think Christ’s speech (161, 171) answers the problem of God’s 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?

Salvadoran crucifix(contemporary)

Stations of the Cross, University of Central America chapel (San Salvador

Statue of St. Agnes,From NagasakiRecovered after 1945(U.N. headquarters, NY)