With questions of religion and homosexuality on the front pages again, and debates raging about the nature of marriage and the ordination of priests, James Alison invites us into deep, lucid reflection about God, the wonder of creation, and the way that God not only loves but likes every one of us.
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Finding Our Likeness in God,
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This review is from: On Being Liked (Paperback)
James Alison is an extraodinary thinker. Having read his four other books, I found "On Being Liked" his most accessable. Alison is not any easy read and I don't always comprehend everything he writes, but what I do understand is audacious in it's conceptualizition and startling in its grasp of scripture. Alison is totally God centered --- not an avenging and punishing God, but a God who wishes to envelope his creations --- including us gay and lesbian folks --- like a warm blanket. Alison presumes a belief and basic understanding of Christianity because he is a Roman Catholic priest and theologian, but unlike what you would expect from someone with these credentials, he takes Roman Catholic orthodoxy and puts it to the test. The results are breathtaking in their unfolding and liberating in their effects. This book is for the thinking crowd that isn't afraid to work for their revelations.
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Refreshing good news,
By Edmund Szarzynski (Warszawa, Poland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On Being Liked (Paperback)
Brilliant style and deep insight in the Gospels' teaching. This book, just as "Faith Beyond Resentment", renews and maintains my Catholicity.
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natural philosophy naturally wrong,
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i wish this were true. truly. it seems to that it just goes to show you the problem with natural theology. that it allows taht which happens to be, to be the end of matter. so poof, no problem with homosexuality as it is natural, so if it is natural then well it must be good, therefore homosexuality is good as it is naturally occuring phenomenon. the problem, and i wish his argument was true, is that any naturally occuring thing is, if it is truly natural, is good and ordained...such as well paedophilia rape, and murder.
some of his other stuff on likeness and love are good i felt the best bits were borrowed from rene girard, and the source was better in this case
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