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  <title><![CDATA[Life of Christ]]></title>
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  <default-description>Filled with compassion and brilliant scholarship, Fulton Sheen's recounting of the Birth, Life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ is as dramatic and moving as the subject Himself.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">9</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">1977</original-publication-year>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wants to know the depths of the life of Jesus]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book I've ever read on the life of Christ, mostly due to Sheen's poetic imagery and illustrations in almost every sentence.  His lifetime of reflecting on the life of Jesus is written down.<br/><br/>Chapter 3, &quot;Three Short-Cuts from the Cross&quot; is a great sample of the de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26244341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An objective but deeply sensitive portrayal. ]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wants spiritual reading during Lent]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book every Lent, especially on Good Friday.<br/>It has also come in handy for Bible studies, due to the many scriptural cross-references.<br/><br/>More importantly, the way Sheen wrote was the way he spoke - eloquently, direct, and witty.  He will have you grinning one moment, followe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7862830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 19:09:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that you can pick up and read a little at a time.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 19:02:50 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should say &quot;currently reading AGAIN&quot;.  I lvoe this book.  Sheen brings Christ to life in new ways ~ or, better perhaps, he brings ways of understanding Christ alive then and now.  I read in this book often, but have decided to actually go front to back once again.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 06 09:52:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of our favorite books, ever!  I am glad to own it so I can read it again!  Wonderful, highly recommend!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome work by Fulton Sheen I recommend everyone to read and re read this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a good one to meditate with,]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book!  The gospels are hard to read, and this presents them in the form of a biography.  Keeps me turning the pages, and the author is a very trustworthy source.  Highly recommended.]]></body>
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