![A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/320/077/9780807077320.IN.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith Hardcover - 2007
by Mairs, Nancy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
Description
NZ$7.53
NZ$5.00
Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Standard delivery: 2 to 8 days
Ships from BOOKMONGER LTD (New Jersey, United States)
Details
- Title A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith
- Author Mairs, Nancy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 142
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, MA
- Date 9/1/2007 12:00:01 AM
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000626980
- ISBN 9780807077320 / 0807077321
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.72 x 6.16 x 0.67 in (22.15 x 15.65 x 1.70 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Spiritual biography, Catholics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007013301
- Dewey Decimal Code B
About BOOKMONGER LTD New Jersey, United States
Biblio member since 2022
books
Summary
Nancy MairsA Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic FaithPassionately nonconformist spiritual reflections from an acclaimed essayistWhen Nancy Mairs published her "spiritual autobiography" Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable accomplishment", calling Mairs "a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development."Mairs’s new book on spirituality describes the alternative brand of Catholic worship that she observes in the American Southwest. Raised Congregationalist in New England, Mairs is a convert to Catholicism. She is also feminist, radical, politically activist — and all this in a church that tends to scorn her kind of progressive iconoclasm. A Dynamic God explores why and how Mairs deals with those contradictions and still identifies as Catholic (Zen Catholic, as she sometimes says), and what she finds to love in that tradition. Doctrinally, Mairs parts ways with the mainstream Church with few regrets. The people she worships with celebrate communion in each others’ homes without a priest, discuss politics, and defy Church opposition. But the Catholic rituals and imaginative structures that Mairs loves shape her life. In the Latino image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, for instance, she finds inspiration for a commitment to social justice. In her unmistakable, vibrant voice, she writes about sin and abundance; understanding vocation in a life circumscribed by multiple sclerosis; and celebrating life.