Visitations Of Grace

Doherty, Patricia

ISBN 10: 1438250452 / ISBN 13: 9781438250458

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visitations Of Grace
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438250452
• ISBN 13: 9781438250458
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

What was really wrong with Peter's mother-in-law? How did it feel for a crippled man to be hauled out of bed by well-meaning friends, manhandled up to the top of a house, and dropped through a hole in the roof? What led up to their healings, and what transformations occurred because of encounters with Jesus Christ? I wanted to know about the people who appear in the Gospels just long enough to be touched by him. What were their stories? To find out, I had to write them, and the result was Visitations of Grace. Jesus himself knew that people love to hear stories, and to this day that hasn't changed. Our understanding of the Bible is enriched when we can identify with the flesh-and-blood human beings whose lives fill its pages. The stories in Visitations of Grace involve the transformations of ordinary people, such as those of the head steward at Cana, the man living with the Samaritan woman, and a Roman soldier stationed in Jerusalem.

About the Author

A native of Washington, D.C., Patricia Doherty had been writing sporadically since childhood, but her career began in earnest when she slammed a mystery story shut in despair, declaring she could write better herself. Her husband challenged her to do it. The result was The Face of Evil, the first of the Father Dismas Shaunessey mystery series, which continued with The Sins of Moffat Square and Of Murder and Marigolds; a fourth is in progress. She also co-authored two books with Olympic pole vaulting champion Don Bragg: A Chance to Dare: The Don Bragg Story, and Kamp Olympik, an account of a most unusual summer camp for disadvantaged boys. Her other literary output ranges from articles for the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion to TV copy, compact disc liner notes, a novella, poetry, and children's stories, as well as a body of interviews and feature articles on opera.