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    <body><![CDATA[As with so many profound human concepts, our language around the topic of spirituality and devotion is limited, divisive and often fails us.  This is a wonderful book for someone who both loves words, their intricacies &amp; evolution, and is reconstructing a personal spiritual ground.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[currently reading update: ( i forgot to post when i started this book a while back)  the intro is compelling, but the format beyond that doesn't beg me to read it through in the same way i'd take on a novel.<br/><br/>after the intro, her contemplations on the language of faith are presented as a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17832226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;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.&quot; With observations like this one, Kathleen Norris, author of <em>Dakota</em> and <em>The Cloister Walk</em>, has again provided a salutary corrective for contemporary Christians in <em>Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith</em>. The book is about how she learned to use religious words, such as &quot;incarnation,&quot; &quot;idolatry,&quot; and &quot;evangelism.&quot; 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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    <body><![CDATA[As my faith journey led me to Christianity, this book was invaluable in helping me navigate the reefs and shoals found in many of the ambiguous and scary terms in the flawed and broken church. Norris' prose in the vignettes illustrating these terms reveals the poet that she was and is. I still turn ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80349562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle of this book is A Vocabulary of Faith. Norris selects from what she calls the &quot;scary&quot; words of the faith vocabulary. To her some of these are &quot;AntiChrist,&quot; &quot;blood,&quot; &quot;dogma,&quot; and &quot;revelation.&quot; This books reads well in small doses, reading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49350706">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;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.&quot; With observations like this one, Kathleen Norris, author of <em>Dakota</em> and <em>The Cloister Walk</em>, has again provided a salutary corrective for contemporary Christians in <em>Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith</em>. The book is about how she learned to use religious words, such as &quot;incarnation,&quot; &quot;idolatry,&quot; and &quot;evangelism.&quot; 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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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  Its discussion of some of the Christian vocabulary that can be most alarming and off-putting for some of us- like 'apocalypse,' 'reprobate,' 'judgement,' and 'hermeneutic,' is full of the author's reassuring, questioning, calm, compassionate voice and her stories of life in a Bene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49986614">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of two to six page vignettes that touched me in a major way.  If interested, you can either read them kinda quickly (like I did) or consider them slowly (as it'd definitely work to set the book aside for a while and then come back; you don't necessarily have to recall previous c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12793005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this when I read it , but my own interest in spirituality has changed so much I don't know that I would react the same.  Norris is a good writer though.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most powerful, thought-provoking book on religion which I've ever read.  I re-read it frequently.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[yay. realistic AND inspiring. she's a good writer with experiences worth speaking out loud. ]]></body>
    
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