Amazing grace
a vocabulary of faith
1st Riverhead trade paperback ed.
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Author
Publication
1999 - Riverhead Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveamazinggracevoca00norr
- Internet Archiveamazinggracevoc00norr
- ISBN-101573227218
- ISBN-139781573227216
- Library of Congress Control Number97045211
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number41227257
- Better World BooksO7-AZE-907
- Better World Books9781573227216
- Better World BooksP6-ALI-733
- Open LibraryOL24963646M
Classifications
- DDC230/.03
- LCCBV4501.2 .N63 1999
- LCCBV4501.2 .N63 1998
and 1 more
- LCCBV 4501.2 .N63 1999
Description
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"even "Christ"formed what she called her "scary vocabulary," words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace. Blending history, theology, storytelling, etymology, and memoir, Norris uses these words as a starting point for reflection, and offers a moving account of her own gradual conversion. She evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday lifeand offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world.
First Sentence
I was about sixteen years of age when I discovered the word "eschatology."
Description
"Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment", "faith", "dogma", "salvation", "sinner" -- even "Christ" -- formed what she called her "scary vocabulary", words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace. Blending history, theology, story-telling, etymology, and memoir, Norris uses these words as a starting point for reflection, and offers a moving account of her own gradual conversion. She evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday life -- and offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world." -- from back cover.
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