Sant menneske

by Wilfrid Stinissen, Gunnar Wicklund-Hansen (Translator)

I SANT MENNESKE hjelper Wilfrid Stinissen oss til å forstå den menneskelige natur og hvordan vi skal betrakte menneskets opprinnelse og mål. Skapel- sen er begynnelsen, og målet er guddommelig- gjørelse - hellighet, - sier Stinissen. Boken beskri- ver menneskets reise ved hjelp av Bibelen og den kristne erfaring hos helgener og mystikere.
Slik vokser det frem et kristent menneskesyn som samtidig viser hva det innebærer å bli et sant menneske.
Forfatteren Wilfrid Stinissen var katolsk prest og karmelittmunk. Flere av hans bøker er utgitt på St. Olav forlag.

204 pages

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Rev. Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen, OCD

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

The premise is good, but after parts one and two, part three becomes too longtrodden. Also, Stinissen is a bit too loose on his references and too eager to trust his sources. Yes, many of them are rooted well in the Christian tradition, but also some are more obscure mystics and such that to take their words as canon seems a bit far out there in the pick and choose for the narrative of the book. That is why this book did often not feel like a theologically solid fundament, but rather a more open and wide toward all of the Christian tradition making it fuzzy at parts. It is like swimming in a wide ocean and from time to time finding a good little island with food, only in order to have to jump in again to find the next one.