A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God

by Joan D. Chittister, Robert Lentz (Illustrations)

Through the icons of Robert Lentz and the reflections of Joan Chittister, A Passion for Life presents the lives of over two dozen saints, prophets, and witnesses who speak to the urgent spiritual questions of our time. The icons in this book are male and female, Christian and non-Christian, married and unmarried, religious and lay. They are people like us. With one exception, perhaps: "In their eyes burn the eyes of a God who sees injustice and decries it, sees poverty and condemns it, sees inequality and refuses it, sees wrong and demands that it be set right. These are people who gave themselves entirely to the impulses of God for the sake fo the world."

Genres: Spirituality, Art

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Joan Daugherty Chittister, O.S.B., is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, and speaker. She has served as Benedictine prioress and Benedictine federation president, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.

Reviews

[Laurel]

I am not enamored of Chittister's texts, but I love Robert Lentz's twenty-one full-page, full-color icons and his expansive definition of holy people (everyone from Teresa of Avila to Oscar Romero to Mother Jones). My favorite is Lentz's icon of Eve as an old woman.