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PoetryFather Richard Rohr is known for his talks all over the country. Many of his books are taken from his talks. This is one of his better texts. Very easy read, and it really gives you a closer, more accurate look at the man known as Saint Luke of the Gospels. Many of Father Rohr's views are considered "radical" by many "typical" Catholics. In my opinion, he knows more about our faith than most priests in America. I would honestly...
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Rohr's deep exploration of Luke's Gospel is profound, challenging and inspiring, but a large part of the book is him directing the same attention towards Scripture in general: What is it? What is it not? How did it come to be this way? His reasoning and research are an encouraging mixture of more mainstream theology and scholarship mixed with insights into more 'radical' territory such as the place of the Feminine in the...
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Richard Rohr in this book has been able to develop reflections on the Gospel of Luke that are personanally challenging but also consistent with contemporary scholarship. In fact, Rohr is able to use the findings of scholarship as a basis for many of the reflections. Luke presents a Jesus whose message of simplicity and love and faith contradict the world as it was in 80 AD and in 1998. Rohr comes back again and again to...
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