Avoiding the arcane, author takes on nearly impossible task in book on God On: 3/27/2020, By Kurt Jensen , In: Books
This is the cover of the book God: What Every Catholic Should Know by Elizabeth Klein. The book is reviewed by Kurt Jensen. (CNS)
Help us expand our reach! Please share this article God: What Every Catholic Should Know by Elizabeth Klein. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2019). 142 pp., $24.95 (hardback), $16.95 (paperback).
You wouldn t think it possible to get the Almighty compacted into 142 pages, yet this is what Elizabeth Klein has done, without presumption. God is the second book from the assistant professor of theology at the Augustine Institute in Denver her first was Augustine s Theology of Angels in 2018 and the third in the Ignatius Press series What Every Catholic Should Know. The first two covered salvation and literature.
This is the cover of Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce. The book is reviewed by Patrick Brown. (CNS)
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Every day, television headlines are more tiring, the social media scrolling more soulless and popular culture continues its pursuit of relevance over actual meaning. It might be time to sink your teeth into written works that actually sought to plumb the depths of humanity and have withstood the test of time.
But like walking into a supermarket on an empty stomach, resolving to read more classic literature can end up in the paralysis of a paradox of choice with so many classic works to choose from, what to prioritize? What kinds of works might be right for a given state in life? Where to even begin? Flipping on the latest streaming sitcom starts to sound like the path of least re
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Before Austen Comes Aesop Paperback
Before Austen Comes Aesop presents an in-depth examination of the Children s Great Books, that is, the literature that has made the most profound impact on the lives of children throughout Western history. In addition to its invaluable chronological list of titles, from ancient times to the present, the book provides both students and their parents the guidance they need to read leisurely or study formally the Children s Great Books at home.
The book s premise is that children often do not spend enough time with the literature written or adapted for them before diving into adult works. An experienced teacher, the author argues that children benefit in many ways from lingering longer over literature created for them.