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Synopsis
How does a person imagine God? How does that image change as the person matures spiritually and undergoes a significant religious experience? What influences -- politics, culture, gender, faith tradition -- shape and change a person's view of God? In this compelling and inspiring book, Brennan Hill uses biographical theology -- a lived theology that comes out of experiences and events. With stories and historical and theological sources, Hill profiles eight modern religious heroes and their search for God. These heroes are diverse: an Indian Hindu, a German Jewish woman who converted to Christianity, an African American Baptist minister, an American woman who came to religion only after years of atheism, a Salvadoran archbishop, two Jesuit priests -- one French, one American -- and an Albanian nun. Yet they have much in common. Hill writes: ... for all of these people God was often close at hand, deeply felt in the events of their lives, glimpsed in the people they met, pursuing them in their minds and hearts. God came to them with many intriguing faces: as a God of truth, of the homeless, of the mountain. God came in the cosmos, as one beckoning to prophecy, and as a fellow sufferer sharing the cross. Divinity appeared as the power of peace and in the poverty of the abandoned. Each one of us might now ask: What face has my God shown to me?
Initiatives
...it would be silly not to like a book about Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Bishop Oscar Romero and other inspiriting modern saints.