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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary Of Faith
by Kathleen Norris
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (1998-09-25)
ISBN: 0736642668
EAN: 9780736642668
Audio Cassette
Condition: Like New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
When, more than twenty years ago, Kathleen Norris began attending her grandmother's small-town church on the Great Plains, she was a transplanted poet with more doubt than faith. Still, the strong pulls of tradition, family history, and community found her week after week at Sunday-morning services. In returning to church, Norris' greatest struggle was with the language of the Christian religion. She found she had to wrestle with it, grapple with its meaning and make it her own before she could embrace its blessings and grace. Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet and the author of THE CLOISTER WALK and DAKOTA: A SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY. Her most recent book of poetry is LITTLE GIRLS IN CHURCH. She lives in South Dakota. "...a book whose hospitality extends not just to Christians or religious seekers, but to anyone drawn by what its author celebrates as 'the living word'." (The New York Times)
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Amazon.com Review
"Our ridiculously fallible language becomes a lesson in how God's grace works despite and even through our human frailty. We will never get the words exactly right. There will always be room for imperfection, for struggle, growth and change. And this is as it should be." With observations like this one, Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk, has again provided a salutary corrective for contemporary Christians in Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. The book is about how she learned to use religious words, such as "incarnation," "idolatry," and "evangelism." Norris is a feminist, a theological conservative, a sophisticate, and a country bumpkin. And she's one of the few living Christian writers who can be described as truly great.
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