8 Spiritual Heroes: Their Search for God - Softcover

Hill, Brennan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867164212 ISBN 13: 9780867164213

Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002

Synopsis

"It is evident after exploring these heroes' lives and writings that God remains a Mystery—a reality beyond images, descriptions, dogmas and creeds."—From the Epilogue

How does a person imagine God? How does that image change as the person matures spiritually and undergoes a significant religious experience? What influences—political, social, gender, faith tradition—shape and change a person's view of God?

In this compelling and inspiring book of biographical theology, Brennan Hill uses stories and historical and theological sources to tell us how eight modern religious heroes see God. Hill's religious heroes are diverse: a Hindu (Mahatma Gandhi), a Jewess who converted to Christianity (Edith Stein), a black Baptist minister (Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Catholic laywoman (Dorothy Day), a Salvadoran archbishop (Archbishop Oscar Romero), two Jesuit priests (Pierre Tielhard de Chardin and Daniel Berrigan) and a nun (Mother Teresa of Calcutta).

Hill writes: "Many of my religious heroes lived out their faith in an outstanding manner. For all of these religious heroes 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, as it were, came with many intriguing faces: as a God of truth, of the homeless and 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?"

About this title

About the Author:

BRENNAN R. HILL is married to Marie, and they are parents of two young adults, Ami and B.J. Hill. Hill, professor of theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, has written more than 20 books, including Jesus, the Christ: Contemporary Perspectives (Twenty-Third Publications) and Jesus: Center of Christianity (St. Anthony Messenger Press).

Review:

...it would be silly not to like a book about Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Bishop Oscar Romero... -- Initiatives

Exceptional -- Public News Service

Good read for some who need a dose of hope when bad news about leaders seems like a daily occurrence. -- Bookviews: Theological Book Service, October 2002

This book encourages us to look around for even more heroes. -- Spirit & Life, May-June 2003

This is dramatic and exciting reading, very pertinent to events of today. Highly recommended. --The Living Church, May 18, 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0867164212
• ISBN 13: 9780867164213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331