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Author Norris, Kathleen, 1947-

Title Amazing grace : a vocabulary of faith / Kathleen Norris.

Imprint New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.

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Description 384 pages ; 22 cm
Summary The author blends history, memoir, and theology with a strong grasp of language in an investigation into the key words of Christian belief, such as "judgment," "prayer," "faith," and "Christ."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Eschatology -- Antichrist -- Silence -- Salvation -- Inheritance: blessing and curse -- Incarnation -- Detachment -- Conversion: the family story -- Exorcism -- Perfection -- Prayer -- Belief, doubt, and sacred ambiguity -- Repentance -- Annunciation -- Inheritance: what religion were you raised in, and what are you now? -- Commandments -- Idolatry -- Bible -- Righteous -- Conversion: the stories -- God -- Blood -- Virgin Mary, Mother of God -- Anger -- Conversion: The feminist impasse -- Chosen -- Fear -- Conversion: one more boom -- Grace -- Intolerance/forbearance -- Christ -- Sinner, wretch, and reprobate -- Faith -- Good and evil -- Preaching -- The Bible: illiteracies and ironies -- Heresy/apostasy -- Creeds -- Orthodoxy -- God-talk -- Inquisition -- Oppression -- Herod -- Conversion: the wild West -- Ecstasy -- Medieval -- Christian -- The Bible study -- Worship -- Conversion: my Ebenezer -- The Bible: give me a word -- "Organized" religion -- Hospitality -- Church -- Lectio Divina -- Mystic -- Trinity -- Seeking -- Conversion: the scary stuff -- Evangelism -- Imagination (or, How many Christians does it take to balance N. Scott Momaday?) -- Unchurched -- Hell -- Judgment -- Apocalypse -- Prayer as remembrance: the expert marksman's medal -- Dogma -- Angels -- Wickedness -- Interpretation: "I know not" -- Revelation -- Pentecostal -- Prayer as mystery -- Neighbor -- Theology -- Asceticism -- Heaven -- Infallibility -- Truth -- The new Jerusalem.
Subject Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
Christianity -- Terminology.
Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
Faith.
Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
Christianity -- Terminology.
Christian life -- Presbyterian authors. (OCoLC)fst01750776
Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
Faith. (OCoLC)fst01198492
Language and languages -- Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst00992200
Christian life.
Christianity -- Terminology.
Christianity -- Terminology.
Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
Genre/Form Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
Terminology. (OCoLC)fst01423880
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Online version: Norris, Kathleen, 1947- Amazing grace. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998 (OCoLC)605429555
Online version: Norris, Kathleen, 1947- Amazing grace. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998 (OCoLC)605460058
ISBN 1573220787 (alk. paper)
9781573220781 (alk. paper)
1573227218 (pbk.)
9781573227216 (pbk.)
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