Who Do You Say I Am?: Meditations On Jesus' Questions In The Gospels

by M. Basil Pennington

FAther Basil suggests that living with the questions fo Jesus can bring us to a much richer perspective on our lives.

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2005

About the author

Dom M. Basil Pennington O.C.S.O. (1931–2005) was a Trappist monk and priest. He was a leading Roman Catholic spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, and director.

Pennington was an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum where he obtained a licentiate in Theology in 1959.[1] He also earned a licentiate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pennington became known internationally as one of the major proponents of the Centering Prayer movement begun at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, during the 1970s.

Reviews

[Linda Griffin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book sounded like it would be good and it starts out pretty good. I am not Catholic but it followed and quoted scripture. Towards the end it strayed from scripture and brought in more of the catholic traditions and stories. I suppose If I was Catholic I might have gotten more from it. I am use to reading devotionals etc that has scripture supporting each point. This was my mistake and I will choose protestant leaning authors from now on.

[Mark Geisthardt · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are some good insights and moments early on but I ran out of enthusiasm about halfway through. From a Mainline Protestant perspective it was a good bit too Roman, but that's just me.