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.
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Christianity -- Terminology.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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Faith.
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Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
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Christianity -- Terminology.
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Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
(OCoLC)fst01750776
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Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
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Faith. (OCoLC)fst01198492
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00992200
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Christian life.
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Christianity -- Terminology.
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Christianity -- Terminology.
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Christian life -- Presbyterian authors.
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Genre/Form |
Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
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Terminology. (OCoLC)fst01423880
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Dictionaries.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Norris, Kathleen, 1947- Amazing grace. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998 (OCoLC)605429555 |
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Online version: Norris, Kathleen, 1947- Amazing grace. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998 (OCoLC)605460058 |
ISBN |
1573220787 (alk. paper) |
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9781573220781 (alk. paper) |
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1573227218 (pbk.) |
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9781573227216 (pbk.) |
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