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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A Jesuit priest, successful author and peace activist, Dear uses Jesus' Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor as a model for personal and corporate transformation to the ways of peace and nonviolence. Using the biblical texts as a metaphor, he explores how we, too, can journey up the mountain, be transfigured and then walk back down into the world as transformed people and churches willing to go to the cross. Dear also includes helpful suggestions on spiritual practices that lead to embracing nonviolence, as well as questions for individual contemplation or group discussion. Like many who are passionate about their subject, Dear's sense that he absolutely knows God's will is daunting at times. He also stretches some of the biblical texts, arguing, for instance, that Moses and Elijah appear at the Transfiguration specifically to affirm Jesus' call to nonviolence. Dear is much to be admired for his persistence in the call for peace and nonviolence, a mission for which he has been willing to go to prison, and those who already share the author's views will find this book inspiring. Those who do not will probably go away unconvinced that the account of the Transfiguration makes his case. (Feb. 20)
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From Booklist
Priest, retreat leader, and peace activist Dear has been executive director of the interfaith organization Fellowship of Reconciliation and a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains in New York City after 9/11. A true man of peace, he takes the life lessons of Jesus seriously. In Transfiguration, he goes a step further by insisting we all can have a transfigurating experience by following Jesus. The further we enter into the story of Jesus, the more we will share "his every experience." The book isn't a manual, however. It's a personal journal, a "little meditation" on Jesus' transfiguration as the risen Christ that we can apply in our own lives through contemplative prayer, gospel study, and shared community. Such transfiguration involves going up the mountain with Jesus, recognizing the transfigured Christ in our daily lives, going down the mountain to the cross, and fulfilling Jesus' mission of nonviolence. In a quiet, even unobtrusive manner, Transfiguration sounds a call for world peace, achieved one person at a time. Archbishop Desmond Tutu contributes the foreword. Ray Olson
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A Jesuit priest, successful author and peace activist, Dear uses Jesus' Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor as a model for personal and corporate transformation to the ways of peace and nonviolence. Using the biblical texts as a metaphor, he explores how we, too, can journey up the mountain, be transfigured and then walk back down into the world as transformed people and churches willing to go to the cross. Dear also includes helpful suggestions on spiritual practices that lead to embracing nonviolence, as well as questions for individual contemplation or group discussion. Like many who are passionate about their subject, Dear's sense that he absolutely knows God's will is daunting at times. He also stretches some of the biblical texts, arguing, for instance, that Moses and Elijah appear at the Transfiguration specifically to affirm Jesus' call to nonviolence. Dear is much to be admired for his persistence in the call for peace and nonviolence, a mission for which he has been willing to go to prison, and those who already share the author's views will find this book inspiring. Those who do not will probably go away unconvinced that the account of the Transfiguration makes his case. (Feb. 20)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Priest, retreat leader, and peace activist Dear has been executive director of the interfaith organization Fellowship of Reconciliation and a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains in New York City after 9/11. A true man of peace, he takes the life lessons of Jesus seriously. In Transfiguration, he goes a step further by insisting we all can have a transfigurating experience by following Jesus. The further we enter into the story of Jesus, the more we will share "his every experience." The book isn't a manual, however. It's a personal journal, a "little meditation" on Jesus' transfiguration as the risen Christ that we can apply in our own lives through contemplative prayer, gospel study, and shared community. Such transfiguration involves going up the mountain with Jesus, recognizing the transfigured Christ in our daily lives, going down the mountain to the cross, and fulfilling Jesus' mission of nonviolence. In a quiet, even unobtrusive manner, Transfiguration sounds a call for world peace, achieved one person at a time. Archbishop Desmond Tutu contributes the foreword. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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