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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris

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Author: Kathleen NorrisPublisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN-10: 1573220787Category: Reference
ISBN-13: 9781573220781 --
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Publication Year: 1998Condition: Good
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More a story than a religious commentary, Kathleen Norris's book examines the presence of faith and spirituality in everyday life. The author came to embrace religion as an adult, after a lifetime of fearing and misunderstanding many aspects of Christianity. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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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 compelled her to return week after week to Sunday morning services, and her deepening ties to a nearby monastery awoke in her a desire to believe. In returning to the church, Norris's greatest struggle was with the language of the Christian religion. Words such as "judgment", "prayer", "faith", "dogma", "salvation", "sinner", and even "Christ" formed what she called her "scary vocabulary" - words that often intimidate people and distance them from their religious heritage. She found she had to wrestle with them, grapple with their meanings and make them her own, before they could confer their blessings and their grace. Blending history, theology, story, etymology, and memoir, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith is a poet's journey through language to faith, with each word serving as the occasion for an examination of a particular aspect of the Christian lexicon.

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"Kathleen Norris writes about religion with the imagination of a poet."
Chicago Tribune - Molly McQuade 

"Here she [Kathleen Norris] once more seizes upon ideas of religion that even for the nonreligious reader are rich in a reassuring humanity. It is that humanity--frequently irreverent and funny--that makes her click as a writer. There are simultaneous winks and caresses in her deeply personal glimpses at the large ideas formulating human faith. She makes us converts to her simple faith of warmth."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Peter Stack (04/04/1998)

"Asked to preach for the first time, Norris heeds Ezra Pound's advice to poets to present rather than describe their experience. This strategy also works in 'Amazing Grace,' a book whose hospitality extends not just to Christians or religious seekers, but to anyone drawn by what its author celebrates as 'a living word.'"
New York Times Book Review - Michael Milburn (04/05/1998)


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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

Kathleen Norris

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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 1573220787
Publication Date: 1998-03-23
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Height: 1.2800 inches
Width: 5.9000 inches
Weight: 1.2600 pounds

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