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Summary: Advance Praise for Spirituality of the Handmaid
Review: "Kerry Walters has given the religious seeker a profound and practical guide to the art of prayer." Morton Kelsey, author, The Other Side of Silence"A wonderful combination of old and new, scholarly and personal, classic and classically Christian! This is obviously from someone who has been there and is ready to guide others. What I like to call 'the Great Tradition'." Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, NM
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Summary: God is a woman
Review: One of the nicest things about this unpretentious little books is that the single thread connecting all its chapters is the claim that spiritual growth is like conceiving, bearing, and giving birth to a child. God bears us in her womb and brings us into life just the way Mary, the archetypal spiritual seeker, did Jesus. All of us are called to duplicate the divine act of creation in our own deepest self-wombs. Read this with the chapters on Holy Spirit(ess) in Elizabeth Johnson's She Who Is.
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Summary: Finally: a serious book on Marian spirituality
Review: There are some books out there on Mary so wacko that you'd think they were written by nuts. I got so disgusted with them after a few years that I refused to read any more. But when my niece gave me this one recently (she picked it up in a used bookstore ... ), I took the plunge, and I'm glad I did. The book's point is that spirtuality devoted to Mary concentrates on bearing God in your own soul-womb, and that the birthing pangs are fasting, prayer, and love. The author seems to be very influenced by the desert fathers and mothers, who are quoted a lot throughout the book. But there are also great discussions of movies and novels that illustrate the theology. I like!
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