Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Norris, Kathleen

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9780783802978: Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

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ISBN 10: 0783802978 ISBN 13: 9780783802978

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1998

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The author draws upon her considerable poetic skills to refashion the vocabulary of the church into her own religious vocabulary, using anecdotes and humor to invest these words with fresh meanings

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"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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