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God Between the Covers: Finding Faith Through Reading
Marcia Ford presents a zesty guide to the essential books, ideas, and spiritual insights from today and yesterday that she thinks all postmoderns and moderns should know about. She takes readers on a literary romp through two millennia of spiritual writings that will enhance and encourage personal transformation.
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222 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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August 24, 2021
The author's entry about Susan Howatch's Starbridge series made me engage with fiction again after many years of preferring nonfiction. And led to me devouring what would become one of my favorite series of all time.
February 12, 2011
I like book lists (e.g What to read before going to college, etc.). I'm always horribly tempted to check off titles to see how I'm doing [So many books, so little time.] Marcia Ford, a book addict, postmodern theologist and writer, has constructed a list of books "...that shaped my life--powerful, influential, life-changing books with staying power." p. 18 Given that I'm the same age as Marcia Ford, I was checking books off madly...it helped that she included Dostoevsky, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Solzhenitsyn, along with some of my other favorites.
p.46: I discovered that you don't have to agree with everything a person believes to come away with a respect for those beliefs and a new found appreciation for the process that led to that particular belief system.
p.61: Wouldn't it be great to have a flowchart showing how one book led to three others, which led to fourteen others, which led to ... a lifetime of reading? Maybe not.
p.89: Malcolm Muggeridge "...was one of the few people to interview Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after the latter took his own beating from the press for expressing his opinion that Christianity offered the only hope for what ailed the West.
p.186: quoting Leif Enger, "No miracle happens without a witness."
p.46: I discovered that you don't have to agree with everything a person believes to come away with a respect for those beliefs and a new found appreciation for the process that led to that particular belief system.
p.61: Wouldn't it be great to have a flowchart showing how one book led to three others, which led to fourteen others, which led to ... a lifetime of reading? Maybe not.
p.89: Malcolm Muggeridge "...was one of the few people to interview Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after the latter took his own beating from the press for expressing his opinion that Christianity offered the only hope for what ailed the West.
p.186: quoting Leif Enger, "No miracle happens without a witness."
May 2, 2008
Great for libraries in Christan high school or universities or churches...good read overall.
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