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How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland
Book Description
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.
Introduction by John Updike
Customer Reviews:
Once Upon A Time in Mexico.......2007-09-04
At a time when there's an abundance of people strapping explosives to themselves to become "martyrs" Graham Greene's 1940 novel has relevance now more than ever. Indeed "The Power and the Glory" is an intimate, uncompromising portrait of another "martyr."
This is the story of an unnamed priest also known as "the whiskey priest" because of his reputation for drinking brandy and violating other Church rules. At one time the priest had a successful parish and lived in luxury; now he's on the run after a socialist revolution has declared religion illegal. Traveling from one place to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the authorities, the priest loses not just all his material goods but his soul as well until he longs for an end. Still he keeps going for reasons not even he understands until like Jesus Christ he knowingly follows Judas to meet his destiny.
The sad irony is that while the priest views himself as a lost soul, he touches many lives through the course of the novel. To people like Mr. Tench the English dentist marooned in Mexico, young Coral Fellows, or the unnamed boy, the priest is a hero and a martyr. His persistence and sacrifices to outside eyes are worthy of many saints. Only the reader and the priest himself can see inside to see that he is at heart a coward and a sinner--an ordinary man.
That disparity is what gives "The Power and the Glory" its power and glory. Greene keenly understood that those we view as heroes and even those we view as villains--like the lieutenant tracking the priest, the "half-caste" Judas who betrays him, or even "the gringo" American bank robber--are ordinary, flawed people. That's the kind of understanding we could use more of in today's world.
A different shade of Greene.......2007-08-26
You often hear THE POWER AND THE GLORY called Greene's masterpiece. Is this justified? Certainly, as John Updike points out in the excellent introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (one of the few intros that can be read before the book itself), Greene approach to his central theme here is purer, more elemental, than in his other works. That theme, as so often with him, is the nature of goodness, especially as seen within the Catholic faith. He delights in writing novels which have one foot in some other genre, about characters whose morality is either questionable (the venal policeman in THE HEART OF THE MATTER, the adulterous wife in THE END OF THE AFFAIR) or outright evil (the young hoodlum in BRIGHTON ROCK), and finding some shred of redemption in them. The story of the repentant thief at the Crucifixion must have had special significance for Greene. But in these novels, the juxtaposition of the Catholic religion with the secular adventure can seem strained or even bizarre.
In THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Greene's principal character is a Catholic priest whose religious identity is of the essence. But he is a sinner, a "whiskey priest" who has fallen down in his observances and in many other areas also. The setting is Southern Mexico in 1938, at a time when the Church was banned as enemies of the people, and priests were rounded up and either forced to marry or be shot. The unnamed anti-hero is the last priest in the area, and there is a price on his head. As he attempts to escape to a safer state, the questions of who he is as a man and as a priest come into stark clarity, and the answers will be what ultimately determine his actions.
But, theme apart, Greene seems different in this book from the writer I know from most of his other novels. There is more than a hint of Dostoyevsky here. Even more, the territory, terse writing style, and a certain grandeur of theme remind me of Hemingway. But I am more struck by the absence of the more usual Greene, the writer who could so brilliantly capture the lives of almost real people functioning in various aspects of the middle-class world, and then take the reader into their inner souls. Greene has always been magnificent in describing places, and that is true here also. But he is also unmatched in the social setting: the way people do their jobs, their social and professional rivalries, their place in the community. All have names and all have the wealth of detail that go with a name. Certainly the minor characters in this book have names and just this kind of lives, but the Priest and his nemesis the Lieutenant of Police are nameless. In that sense they can appear as elemental forces, or as two faces of Everyman. But I miss the greater detail of the other Greene books, and for that reason found myself enjoying this much less.
Powerful, indeed.......2007-05-02
"The Power and the Glory" takes place in the 1930s in a Mexican province where the Catholic Church and its priests have been outlawed for eight years. Only one man, known only as the whisky priest, remains. He is constantly on the run from the police lieutenant who pursues him relentlessly. At its simplest, this is the story of that pursuit. But, in reality, there are layers upon layers of depth to this story. The priests who have refused to deny their calling, marry, and become ordinary citizens, have been put to death by the authorities and have become martyrs for their cause. The whisky priest sees himself as unworthy of such martyrdom (as certainly most martyrs do) because he views himself a coward, drunkard, and sinner who is unrepentant of his greatest sin, fathering an illegimate daughter that he loves above all else. At times, he rails against the people he serves, believing them to be the reason that his life is in danger, but clearly he loves these people and seeks to bring the sacraments to them for whatever small consolation they may provide for their lives. He is contrasted with Padre Jose who, in order to save his own life, conceded to the authorities, renounced his calling, married, and has become a mockery not only to others, but to himself. The lieutenant pursues the whisky priest out of a personal grudge against the Church, which he saw as a child as the oppressor that kept the common people down and subservient. He is a true believer in the revolution and, like the priest, genuinely loves the people. He can't understand why the people continue to turn to religion when he wants to offer them so much more in the here and now. If the revolution could actually deliver on those promises, the people might, indeed, support the revolutionaries, but the lieutenant apparently fails to see that the revolution has failed so far to deliver anything economically, emotionally, or spiritually to replace what solace the people were able to draw from the Church. Ironically, the two enemies, the priest and the lieutenant, are also the only two people who can truly understand one another.
While this story is as bleak as the landscape within which it is set, what redeems it from being unrelentingly depressing are the glimpses we see of how the human soul manages to find the necessary fragments of hope and consolation to allow us to keep living from day to day, sometimes from moment to moment. Whether the whisky priest finds the absolution he seeks is left to us to determine, although we devoutly hope he does because his quest is that of all human hearts.
Graham Greene wrote this book after a month-long visit to Mexico, which is also recounted in nonfiction form in his travel book, "The Lawless Roads." "The Power and the Glory" ranks among the top ten books I've read. The title could be applied to the writing as well. This book totally embodies what great literature is all about. It deserves to be considered a Classic.
Despair is the unforgivable sin.......2007-03-22
The setting is Mexico, during the revolution. Ex-patriots and priests are particularly disenfranchised in the commotion. One of the characters is a wanted man, an American criminal. Another is the whisky priest. Eventually that priest and a Padre Jose, a fat and married ex-priest, are the only religious workers left in the country.
Padre Jose is asked to say a prayer for a dead child and he refuses. He also refuses to house the whisky priest when that man has no other place to seek refuge. The whisky priest is being pursued by the authorities because it is treason to celebrate the rites of the church. He learns that the police officers are taking hostages from the village he has visited. His presence in the village is surmised when his cache of alcohol is found.
Captain Fellows is one of the foreigners. He has a banana plantation. His daughter Cora carries food and drink to the priest. Since the police are going south, the priest is directed to head north. In another village when the place is surrounded, the authorities are misdirected and the whisky priest escapes detection through the words of his own child.
The priest discovers that he has committed the sin of pride. Finally he is arrested by a Red Shirt, but only for disturbing the peace. After accomplishing some tasks he is released the following day. In the crowded cell he discloses his identity. He is chided by a fellow prisoner, a very religious woman, for his seeming careless act since they are in the midst of murderers and thieves. In the end, he is tricked by someone who wishes to claim the reward for his capture. He is told that the wanted American, a bank robber, is dying and wishes absolution. The whisky priest, although sensing a trap, goes to the man and grants him conditional absolution.
The book is especially strong in terms of atmosphere. Being sought for treason puts the victim of the search into an existential crisis.
A Bold and Unlikely Masterpiece.......2007-02-19
The "theological thriller" is a category that sounds improbable, but then all great works of art are improbable. In 1940 Graham Greene published what is considered his masterwork "The Power and the Glory", set during Mexico's anti-clerical purges of the 1930's.
Hunted like a fox, the last of priest in a remote state in southern Mexico is the central character in this powerful Christian parable. The huntsman is a proper and correct police lieutenant who is beautifully described as a "small glass of God's love in a bucket of ditch-water." The lieutenant has replaced devotion to the church with duty to the state as his religion. His passion drives him to the point of near fanaticism.
As a religious parable the books is as bold as it is improbable. While we know that brave priests have been murdered for the cause they held dear, the self-described "whisky priest" is not one of them. The martyred priests are nameless abstracts who exist only on the periphery of the story. Flawed and miserable humans take center stage: the mocked Father Jose, the terrified villagers, the drunken and cruel political functionaries. In the midst of this human stain, is the whisky priest. He is a simple man, and as tragically flawed as the rest. An alcoholic coward, he has slipped in despair more than once. Yet convinced of his own damnation, he carries on with his priestly duties despite the hoof beats of the police behind him.
With the exhaustion of the hunted pressing down on him, the priest has abandoned the "innecessities" of church ritual but not his duty to the church. Even when he suspects that his sense of duty is fueled by self-importance rather than love of God.
Greene gathered material while covering the real purges of his travel book, "The Lawless Roads" (1938); this is one of the great books of the 20th century, written by one of its literary masters. The book was condemned by the Vatican for its focus on the misery of the human condition and soul as well as that of persecuted priest. It is no more anti-Catholic than saying that Catholics, priests and all, are no more or less human than anyone else.
Book Description
For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of the Church.
Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spectacular story of the Church from Biblical times and the early days of St. Peter—the first pope—to the twilight years of John Paul II. It is a sweeping drama of Roman legions, great crusades, epic battles, toppled empires, heroic saints, and enduring faith. And, there are stormy controversies: Dark Age skullduggery, the Inquistition, the Renaissance popes, the Reformation, the Church's refusal to accept sexual liberation and contemporary allegations like those made in Hitler's Pope and Papal Sin.
A brawling, colorful history full of inspiring pageantry and spirited polemic, Triumph will exhilarate, amuse, and infuriate as it extols the glories of Catholic history and the gripping stories of its greatest men and women.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
A very good popular history!.......2007-07-26
John Henry Cardinal Newman (a convert to Catholicism) said, "to be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant".
Well, start here...it's a smart, engaging read!
Fun read.......2007-04-11
As a faithful, orthodox, Catholic this book was a fun read for me. It presents an entirely factual and pro-Catholic view of the history of the Church. It is unapologetically triumphalist (just see the title!) and well footnoted.
It is, however, not a serious work of academic history. It is more of a "'History of Christendom' for Dummies." (more on the History of Christendom later) In its defense, it doesn't pretend to be anything else. However, I wish the book had more academic heft. Writing a book like this will engage people. When they are engaged, it is nice to prevent them from having ready and easy criticisms.
Several reviews here (all protestant and/or secularist and stinging with righteous indignation) point out the books flaws. Crocker uses secondary sources too much. He engages in too much polemic. He doesn't tell both sides of the story. These criticisms, while they contain some validity, are overblown.
Writing an unbiased history was not Crocker's purpose. Pick up the dust jacket, look at the design, and read the flaps and the book itself tells you that. Unlike several anti-Catholic "history" books regarding the reformation I have picked up, this book does not pretend to be unbiased. Peruse the reviews of Crocker's book and one sees that many Protestants still have the gall to claim that only fellow Protestants can write unbiased histories of the reformation.
Writing a pro-Catholic history of the Catholic Church was Crocker's purpose. If one can't deduce that from looking at the jacket, then one has poor deductive reasoning skills! Interestingly enough, despite the books flaws, his case is relatively strong. Even critics of Crocker point out that he doesn't share any false information in this book.
The use of secondary sources is not as inappropriate as one reviewer claims. MANY, MANY modern histories of ancient times rely on secondary sources. There just isn't that much primary source material out there for some events. Historiography would not exist as a discipline if everyone just went to the primary documents and told the limited tale they could find there.
So why just 3 stars? Despite the fact that I will defend Crocker's right to make a case regarding the history of the Church to anyone, I simply don't like the book's approach. It is fun and funny; yet it is supposed to be history. Crocker can write, but he is no historian. He writing style is flip, irreverent, and arrogant. I often feel that books written in this manner are insulting my intelligence. For instance, I don't care much for Ann Coulter either. She and Crocker have a similar writing style, and a similar taste for polemics.
Furthermore, Crocker has his culturally protestant leanings which are left over from before his conversion. Too often I have seen him in interviews criticizing the Magesterium he proclaims to defend. The grounds of his seemingly constant criticism of the last two popes? They failed to support the US invasion of Iraq. Just read his sections on the Crusades in this book to see Crocker's pro-war bias. Crocker is so pro-war that it makes my eyes hurt to read his stuff.
Because of these flaws, I am forced to give Crocker's book 3 stars out of five; I would recommend alternate readings to get one started on Catholic history that do not suffer from Crocker's weaknesses.
Warren H. Carroll for instance is a scholar of serious weight. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is the founder and past president of Christendom College.
His EXCELLENT multi volume series on the History of Christendom (each volume roughly 500 pages or so) is the real deal. It tells much the same history Crocker tells, but he tells it with SERIOUS scholarly ammunition: the best sources, the best argumentation, and the best writing. He has counterarguments against other scholars at the ready and engages his colleagues in his copious footnotes. Even though Carroll's books are LONG, they are engaging and read easily. He stays away from using too much academic jargon; any reasonably educated person could read them.
I found the Cleaving Of Christendom: History Of Christendom Vol 4, which is the volume that deals with the reformation, most engaging and informative. If one finds Crocker too simplistic, too flippant, too over the top, I would check out Dr. Carroll's work.
The "Readers Digest" Version of a Lush History.......2006-12-07
Overall, I really like this book. It is not, however, without its shortcomings. Despite other reviewers complaints that the author takes a conservative and overly positive view of Church history, that wasn't my principle compaint. I felt the book covered too much history in too cursory a fashion. I think that if the book was going to be an overview and not a scholarly treatise, some better editing could have been done so that some sections did not feel like a wham-bam cursory overview of much of Church history.
The criticism of the author's lack of objectivity is misplaced. He certainly has a point of view, but he makes no effort to conceal that view unlike many other historical appraisals of the Catholic Church which focus on only the bad stuff, and downplay or neglect to ackowlege the contribution of Catholicism to history. You always knoe where he stands and I have no problem with that even in the couple of instances where he seems perhaps too much of an apologist.
what a biased book!!!!!!!!!.......2006-11-20
The book is good but completely bent toward the conservative end. I believe that to be truly 'Catholic' you must be represent all sides and be truly in the middle. This book shows only one side - and totally a conservative side - which is not really 'Catholic' according to canon law (I have a master's in theology and pastoral studies from a seminary) I am sorry but it is not 'in the middle' of Catholcism but an extreme! Read it with care!
A history of the Catholic Church from our generation's Hillaire Belloc.......2006-11-06
Mr. Crocker is our generation's Hillaire Belloc. I've given this book to converts and cradle-Catholics alike and have received overwhelmingly positive feedback.
This is a very entertaining and compelling history of the Church that highlights the accomplishments, victories, defeats, and human foibles that have shaped it (and Western Civilization) for the past two millenia.
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This is a must read!.......2003-05-06
This book is great. Charles Carrin doesn't just know about the Holy Spirit, he knows Him. After you read this book you will want to get to know Him too. If you are wanting more of a hunger for God or already have it, get this book it's great.
Book Description
From the first moment of his papacy Karol Wojtyla sought political influence and a role on the world stage. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he was the first media Pope and travelled around the world to preach his message. It is said that he was central in the fall of Soviet Eastern Europe, in particular his own homeland of Poland. Now, one year after his death, there are already calls for his sainthood.
But is this the whole truth?
David Yallop explores the myths and half truths of John Paul II's long reign and asks some difficult questions ranging from the role of the Vatican in the momentous events in 1989, and the continued mismanagement of Vatican finance which allowed Calvi and others to continue to use the Vatican banks for money laundering to the failure to address the child sexual abuse crisis and the rise of the Opus Dei.
Including explosive revelations from the CIA, the KGB, and the Vatican itself, it is a bold and unflinching look at a man who soon stands to become a saint.
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An accurate portrayal.......2007-10-06
It's a very sad day when the Vatican teaches the world more about the ways of the world than about the Faith. That day is here and this book tells a part of the story. Should be required reading for all Catholics.
Put up your guns, girls: this book is pro-Wojtyla, anti-Vatican.......2007-09-02
and so it should please no one.
But first a stylistic note.
The most regrettable loss to our publishing industry in this post-literate age is the almighty, omniscient, self-effacing copy-editor. Without a wise copy-editor much of our 20th century great American novels would not be great (many weren't but seemed so at the time). Even Papa Hemingway blessed his stars for a good copy-editor. It's like our modern super-models blaming their enormous success on their make-up artist, but moreso.
And a good proof-reader. There are several spelling errors and typos and uses of words correctly spelled but incorrect within the context, including a sudden jarring switch to Western Union while discussing Frankel's acquisition of the Western United Insurance Company. Good copy-editors and proof-readers worth their blue pencil catch these things, or once did in the golden past of publishing.
Unfortunately this present work enjoys neither, and grows stylistically tedious.
Much of it reads as if it were copied verbatim from a journalist's notebook, or a student's cribsheet, barren, an avalanche of straight names with little connecting ligature. Often it reads as if edited not by the legendary copy-editor, but an MTV music video editor, blasting through time and space without warning, even within one paragraph, leaving the reader wondering if the writer skipped a page of his crib notes. Readers should not have to work this hard, and the sudden cuts across decades are superfluous, unnecessary and damaging to the flow of the narrative, and pose a further distracting threat to credibility in such an unsourced text.
Other mortal stylistic errors fall from the author's essence as a Britisher. Thus we find modes of speech which are not universal to world-class English, but drawn from a particular level used in London, and thus needlessly incomprehensible.
A fact checker would not have hurt, but they too are as rare as hen's teeth in the publishing world nowadays. For instance the author continually refers to religious habits and other clerical garb as "uniforms." THe first time I thought he was making a snide joke, but then he continue dto use this term for religious habits, and the suspicion crept in under the door that he thought they really are called uniforms, just as Reagan called military uniforms costumes. The irony is he was speaking at one point of Mexico, where it is against the law for priests to wear their collar in public passageways, a law more honored in the breach than in the enforcement, as with so many laws, a vestige of the intense persecution there fifty years or more ago.
Another interesting error while still in Mexico, in recounting the Pope's first trip to Mexico the author writes of green and white papal flags lining the streets. The papal flag is yellow and white. Such things might appear small and insignificant details, until you realize this author relies not on stated and verifiable sources for his writing, but upon the sure voice of his own authority, which erodes which each small error.
The British perspective also colors the narrative, which quickly smells of racism, full of stereotypical French, Italians, Mexicans, Native Americans, American Americans, Spanish, Poles and most offendingly Irish. This author would have us believe what occured to Bobby Sands and the Blanket Boys was not serious and their own fault in every way. We never learn of Judge Dropik, the Rev. Ian Paisley and his Orangemen. Instead we read the Catholic Archbishop and other clergy directed terrorist bombings of civilian targets in Northern Ireland.
This is the epitome of the author's insularly Britisher perspective: he is anti-Catholic to the core, and xenophobic to boot.
But he does greatly support Wojtyla, giving possibly the most glowing and expansive if short-handed account of his life. Look again at the title. It does not read the Dark Heart of John Paul II. Yallop portrays that heart in a much brighter light. Rather he entitles his work the Dark Heart of the Vatican.
Another serious stylistic concern is the lack of footnotes and slim endnotes. In fact his few brief endnotes might have been slipped without distraction into the narrative itself.
Perhaps I have grown used to reading theologians like Father Schillebeeckx and Father Boff who conscientiously and completely footnote every phrase, like anxious postgraduate students defending a thesis, providing endnotes as long as the text, and often more enjoyable and informative. Here Yallop provides strong statements in the text but few backing endnotes.
He does provide a rather complete bibliography of sources unrelated to specific statements within the text, and he tries to explain that so many sources were punished and silenced for providing information in his earlier work In God's Name: An Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I that he dare not mention them now, but that does not leave us any indication at all how Yallop can with confidence report private conversations, for instance, between Villot and Wojtyla. We have only his word for it, and that is the worst of sources, as we cannot tell if his word is good. Pseudo-authority is the fallacious of argumentation, and so his thesis sinks.
ANoter evidence of the amateur is the propensity to quote entire paragraphs and to italicize tyhe entire paragraph and then to mention in parenthesis italicized emphasis added by author. This is professionally or scholastically done to one or two words within a citation, not the entire selection.
He does nevertheless give us a surprisingly favorable view of Wojtyla, jumping on the pre-hagiographic bandwagon also rejoined, for instance, by the GOP's Peggy Noonan. Although he claims here to serve the traditional role in the canonization process, recently done away with by Wojtyla, of "devil's advocate", he does so very weakly, and without resources, and only serves to show Wojtyla as a shining white knight from the north come to rescue our church after what Yallop considers the mafioso murder of the first John Paul for daring to propose to alter the corrupt administration of the Vatican Bank, deeply discussed in his earlier book In God's Name. In fact in many ways this book simply serves as a sequel to his earlier work, both of which were weak trailing shadows of the great Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust.
So save your money and buy Lernoux instead. She covers this same material with much greater foundation and sources, and with much more professional and objective style. This present work is surprisingly weak in every way, disappointing and will please no one. It is Lernoux warmed over, a sort of where-are-they-now twenty years later, and most mortal sin of all, poorly written, perhaps purposefully. THere are those who hold to the Dan Rather Syndrome, that DAn from the single bullet theory onwards was always working underground for the GOP, and that he killed the very substantial concerns about W's military career (or lack thereof) by presenting mistyped documents about it, which when indicated as mistyped, easily dismissed the entire issue. Perhaps this writer wishes to dismiss doubts about Wojtyla in the same way, by writing so badly as to associate any objective voice with sloppiness.
The basic thesis remains: That WOjtyla failed to go after the needed reforms, the hard reforms, the reforms that borught about the murder of a Pope, his predecessor, and instead hit the weak and the vulnerable, the academics and those who stood with the poor and the oppressed and the impoverished, instead of the corrupt bankers who oppress them.
Buy Lernoux instead.
The Author Makes an Excellent Devil's Advocate .......2007-08-22
I notice that, in all the reviews of this book preceding this one, it's either been given five stars or one--no in-between opinions, it seems. Then again, I suppose that any biography of a Pope, or any other well-known and controversial religious figure, is bound to elicit responses of this sort. After having read this book, I can easily see why it could be classified as a polemical work with negative criticisms going somewhat to extremes; but then again, it wasn't David Yallop who abolished the position of "Devil's Advocate" in the Roman Catholic Church's process of beatification and elevation to sainthood, it was John Paul II himself. Popular pressure no doubt will influence some later Pope, whether Benedict XVI or a subsequent one, to canonize John Paul II, but it is still necessary to remember that Karol Wojtyla was human and, like the rest of us, a slave to some aspects of his upbringing. The facts that he was guilty of an autocratic management style and was inconsistent in his policies towards repressive governments, depending on their location and the ideologies of the tyrants in power over them, were well known before Yallop articulated them--as was the Church's inexcusable sheltering of Cardinal Law in the wake of the sexual-abuse scandal.
I gave this work four stars rather than five because of a few instances of typographical errors and slapdash copyediting. Without the presence of those, I would have given it five stars. Love the book, hate it, but let it stand as the Devil's Advocate that no one now in the Church will ever permit to question John Paul II's eligibility for sainthood.
Brilliant study of an overrated celebrity.......2007-07-20
In this extraordinary book, investigative journalist David Yallop examines the record of Pope John Paul II.
Yallop details the many scandals of John Paul's rule, especially the cover-up of widespread sexual abuse by paedophile priests across the world, including 1,200 in the USA. In Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor connived at the criminal offence of abusing children by helping priests to evade justice so that they could continue to abuse. He appointed a known paedophile as Chaplain to Gatwick Airport, where he could prey on new arrivals to Britain. Cardinal Basil Hume covered up the widespread sexual abuse at Ampleforth College, a Catholic private school.
Cardinal Ratzinger, John Paul's close colleague, now Pope Benedict, recently reminded every bishop of the penalties that his Church imposes on those who make allegations of sexual abuse to the civil authorities. The Church puts itself above the law to protect itself, not its victims. They tell us all how to lead our lives, on pain of eternal damnation, while they hide abusing priests and attack those who expose the crimes. What hypocrisy!
John Paul said, "The Roman Catholic Church is not a democracy. Dissent from the Magisterium is incompatible with being a Catholic." The Church is an autocracy and loves other autocracies. John Paul granted a `personal prelature' to Opus Dei, making this openly fascist body answerable to no one but himself.
Yallop depicts John Paul's hatred of Liberation Theology and his consistent support for brutal right-wing tyrannies in Latin America. He shows John Paul's links with the CIA: John Paul and CIA head William Casey had both supported Franco in the 1930s war in Spain. As Pope, John Paul beatified 471 Franco supporters, but not one Republican.
Ratzinger volunteered to join the Hitler Youth and served in the Wehrmacht. It is no coincidence that there is a German Pope, when Germany is trying to foist a Bismarckian Constitution on the European Union.
The Roman Catholic Church operated the infamous ratlines for 30,000 Nazi, Italian and Croat war criminals after World War Two, with the connivance of the US and British governments. (No wonder Blair is so keen to join the Church.) In the 1980s, Germany and the Vatican backed the destruction of Yugoslavia, to `free' Catholic Croatia.
Mussolini's deal with the Papacy is still in force: the Italian state gives half a billion pounds annually to the Church. Yallop shows how John Paul defended the corrupt Vatican Bank, the Mafia's bank, which launders round $50 billion a year. As a member of the Vatican Secretariat said of the absurd `visions of the Virgin Mary' at Medjugorje in Yugoslavia, "Of course it's a fraud but the money is genuine."
What did John Paul achieve? By trying to hide the Church's vice and corruption, he brought it lasting shame. So less than half the world's Catholics even attend Mass and numbers are falling rapidly. 72% of the Spanish people think that the state should stop its £100 million annual handout to the Church. Like other reactionaries, all his scheming resulted only in the failure of his cause.
TRUTH CREATES FREEDOM.......2007-07-14
This book is one of the finest in recent years to excite a discussion on two related areas: A. Who forms the church, and B. What is the role of the Pope and the Holy See in salvation history? The author does not focus on these issues as he shares his well-studied and documented version of recent history. As with any superior writer he invites discussion from readership after finishing the book.
I was pleased as a enquirer while reading the book because it was so focused. Moreso, I was pleased because the style was so engaging. With a certain detachment Yallop presented history and biography as he understood these events and persons. This is what a writer is supposed to do. He makes claims that are different from (the Vatican) spin, explains his position, and provides the documentation and experience which allow him to make his assertions.
To write about John Paul II is no easy task, especially since high emotion surrounds his memory. The author of this tome warns us, however, to look beyond emotion and regard the facts of history. Far from hating the church he writes in a way that we can understand the church more fully in both its human and divine dimensions. He challenges the reader to look at his or her beliefs about the papacy and the Holy See, and to wonder in what ways John Paul became "the Great" when compared with other papal leaders of the past century and a half. With intelligent reflection it is difficult to claim that John Paul was especially great or holy. Compared to Sarto, Ratti, Pacelli or Roncalli, he seems rather ordinary as the one steering the "bark of Peter." His great difference was that he cultivated the media and created local circus. If one believes he was a great leader and reformer of the the Catholic church, ask an ordinary friend about one of his encyclicals. Ask an ordinary Catholic to explain the difference between the Code of Canon Law of 1917 and the revised Code of the 1980s in terms of theology. Ask the youth who so favorably recall this leader because he paid attention to them, to tell of the great things he did for humanity and the Church. Then, compare these answers to the historical findings presented in this trustworthy book. Something is skewed!
My hope is that intelligent and concerned Catholics and others will take time to seriously read this book and discuss its major points. We are only a few years from this papacy, far too few to really be analytical, but we have a guide in this tome as to how to read and review as we seek the truth. After all, we come from a Gospel which claims that "you shall know the Truth; and the Truth will make you free."
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David Hilliard was the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, and this is his compelling eyewitness account of America's first black armed revolutionary movement. Written with the participation of many other Party members, this book provides firsthand accounts of Huey Newton's infamous shootout with the police, the murder of Fred Hampton, how Panther money was raised and spent, the sexual mores of the Party, and how illegal activities erupted and were controlled. According to the FBI, the Panthers were "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country," and, in part due to government infiltrators and disinformation, the Party began to dissolve in the early seventies as police raids, gun battles, IRS investigations, trials, and prison terms decimated their ranks.
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Informative and insightful.......2004-07-29
This was extremely eye-opening for me. I loved the fact there were black people, young black people, in that time who were collectively doing what they could for us to come up at that crucial period in the late '60s. I don't think the Panthers get the respect they deserve in terms of their part in the Civil Rights era. To some, they had a nonconventional way of getting their message across, but I admired their courage and their intelligence. Hilliard examines everyone who was a crucial part of the movement, including Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, Lil' Bobby Hutton, Bobby Seale, Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, and others. He also discusses his own personal demons and how it afflicted him as well as the party. All in all, it was a very good read for me and was much needed.
An inspiring story........2001-10-11
This is I think is first book I ever read by a Black Panther Party member. Most certaintly, the BPP was extremely controversial and weighted down with informants, provocateurs, and sell-outs. But Hillard wasn't one of them. He seems to give an honest account of his involvement in the Party. His story will give you great respect for a group of brothers and sisters who dared to take a stand against White supremacy, police brutality, and other forms of injustices. His is an inspiring story.
Essential to any comprehensive ethnic issues collection.......2001-08-08
David Hillard and Lewis Cole's This Side Of Glory (1-55652-384-X, $18.95) provides the autobiography of Hillard and his involvement with the Black Panther Party. The Party's history, focus, and events are revealed in this eyewitness account. Essential to any comprehensive ethnic issues collection.
Truthful.......1999-07-01
This book is very interesting. Hilliard follows the idea of self-criticism throughout this book, leaving the reader with a very broad view of the Panthers. He seems to exclude nothing, he shows the promblems and the triumphs of this grand party. All power to the people finally came to mean something to me, instead of being some "crazy sixties thing." This should be read by all revolutionaries trying to start an organization and people questioning their government.
A great book for young revolutionaries........1998-09-21
I am glad that I picked up this book. I was interested in learning about the BPP, so when I saw this book I bought it. The book gives an interesting account of what the BPP was about, and who the "cadre" were. I must recommend this for any revolutionary
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Excellent Survey of handmade bibles........2005-01-18
This is a wonderful survey of illuminated bibles that is so reasonably priced that I would gladly recommend it to *anyone* interested in illuminated manuscripts. For artists working in the medieval style, I strongly recommend adding this to your reference collection.
The book starts with an introductory chapter on book production in medieval monasteries and then quickly moves on to its stated purpose: a primarily visual survey of a variety of hand-made bibles from their beginnings to the mid-17th century. Each book featured is accompanied by a short text and at least one exploded view of the illumination details. The majority of bibles surveyed fall squarely between 1200-1500, but there are several earlier and later manuscripts. The preponderance of manuscripts come from central and eastern European libraries, so in addition to the usual Franco-Flemish and Italian examples, there are also a number of Greek, Armenian, German, Spanish, Ethiopian, Slavonic, and other under-represented areas included in this book.
The exploded details of the illumination are one of the best things about this book. They are so greatly enlarged that one can often identify the brush strokes. Added to the greater-than-usual breadth of the survey-in styles and in quality--and the reasonable price, it's a book you shouldn't skip.
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Catholics who tire of histories critical of their church will find much to love in Triumph, by the journalist and novelist H.W. Crocker III. With the enthusiasm of a convert, Crocker (formerly an Anglican) tells a story spanning 2,000 years, concentrating on the most heroic and adventurous chapters of church history. Crocker writes clear, crisp sentences ("Origen severed his genitals," begins one chapter; "A little looting goes a long way," opens another), and his version of Catholic history is one amazing scene after another. Triumph reads more like a historical novel than most other church histories, and that quality makes the book one of the most accessible historical surveys for younger readers. Theologically, however, Crocker is so eager to depict the church in a positive light that he's all but blind to its flaws. There's a lot of catechism here, but not much probing into the complexities of the church's involvement in the Inquisition or in World War II, or contemporary controversies such as the ordination of women. --Michael Joseph Gross
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For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of the Church.
Triumph is that history. Inside, you'll discover the spectacular story of the Church from Biblical times and the early days of St. Peter—the first pope—to the twilight years of John Paul II. It is a sweeping drama of Roman legions, great crusades, epic battles, toppled empires, heroic saints, and enduring faith. And, there are stormy controversies: Dark Age skullduggery, the Inquistition, the Renaissance popes, the Reformation, the Church's refusal to accept sexual liberation and contemporary allegations like those made in Hitler's Pope and Papal Sin.
A brawling, colorful history full of inspiring pageantry and spirited polemic, Triumph will exhilarate, amuse, and infuriate as it extols the glories of Catholic history and the gripping stories of its greatest men and women.
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Fun book.......2007-04-11
As a faithful, orthodox, Catholic this book was a fun read for me. It presents an entirely factual and pro-Catholic view of the history of the Church. It is unapologetically triumphalist (just see the title!) and well footnoted.
It is, however, not a serious work of academic history. It is more of a "'History of Christendom' for Dummies." (more on the History of Christendom later) In its defense, it doesn't pretend to be anything else. However, I wish the book had more academic heft. Writing a book like this will engage people. When they are engaged, it is nice to prevent them from having ready and easy criticisms.
Several reviews here (all protestant and/or secularist and stinging with righteous indignation) point out the books flaws. Crocker uses secondary sources too much. He engages in too much polemic. He doesn't tell both sides of the story. These criticisms, while they contain some validity, are overblown.
Writing an unbiased history was not Crocker's purpose. Pick up the dust jacket, look at the design, and read the flaps and the book itself tells you that. Unlike several anti-Catholic "history" books regarding the reformation I have picked up, this book does not pretend to be unbiased. Peruse the reviews of Crocker's book and one sees that many Protestants still have the gall to claim that only fellow Protestants can write unbiased histories of the reformation.
Writing a pro-Catholic history of the Catholic Church was Crocker's purpose. If one can't deduce that from looking at the jacket, then one has poor deductive reasoning skills! Interestingly enough, despite the books flaws, his case is relatively strong. Even critics of Crocker point out that he doesn't share any false information in this book.
The use of secondary sources is not as inappropriate as one reviewer claims. MANY, MANY modern histories of ancient times rely on secondary sources. There just isn't that much primary source material out there for some events. Historiography would not exist as a discipline if everyone just went to the primary documents and told the limited tale they could find there.
So why just 3 stars? Despite the fact that I will defend Crocker's right to make a case regarding the history of the Church to anyone, I simply don't like the book's approach. It is fun and funny; yet it is supposed to be history. Crocker can write, but he is no historian. He writing style is flip, irreverent, and arrogant. I often feel that books written in this manner are insulting my intelligence. For instance, I don't care much for Ann Coulter either. She and Crocker have a similar writing style, and a similar taste for polemics.
Furthermore, Crocker has his culturally protestant leanings which are left over from before his conversion. Too often I have seen him in interviews criticizing the Magesterium he proclaims to defend. The grounds of his seemingly constant criticism of the last two popes? They failed to support the US invasion of Iraq. Just read his sections on the Crusades in this book to see Crocker's pro-war bias. Crocker is so pro-war that it makes my eyes hurt to read his stuff.
Because of these flaws, I am forced to give Crocker's book 3 stars out of five; I would recommend alternate readings to get one started on Catholic history that do not suffer from Crocker's weaknesses.
Warren H. Carroll for instance is a scholar of serious weight. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is the founder and past president of Christendom College.
His EXCELLENT multi volume series on the History of Christendom (each volume roughly 500 pages or so) is the real deal. It tells much the same history Crocker tells, but he tells it with SERIOUS scholarly ammunition: the best sources, the best argumentation, and the best writing. He has counterarguments against other scholars at the ready and engages his colleagues in his copious footnotes. Even though Carroll's books are LONG, they are engaging and read easily. He stays away from using too much academic jargon; any reasonably educated person could read them.
I found the Cleaving Of Christendom: History Of Christendom Vol 4, which is the volume that deals with the reformation, most engaging and informative. If one finds Crocker too simplistic, too flippant, too over the top, I would check out Dr. Carroll's work.
Makes more sense than what my teacher taught!.......2006-04-20
Mr. Crocker has managed to create a work that is both readable and credible. This is not a scholarly work, it is meant to be read. And you will have fun reading it! Just reading some of his commentaries such as the section about Martin Luther is both entertaining and informative. It is great fun.
One aspect of Crocker's writing that I do appreciate is that you can easily tell when he is editorializing and when he is not. This is certainly NOT true with many other writers of popular history!
Some may call this propaganda. I would contend that all history is propaganda to some degree or another. I believe it would be a mortal sin to knowingly lie or misrepresent history in a book such as this, and Crocker does seem to believe in mortal sin. I find him more credible many of the other authors I have read because of this.
Catholic Propaganda At Its Worst.......2006-02-16
I will start by admitting that I am not a Catholic, and not a Chrisitan. I was raised Protestant, and thus a lot of energy that I've put into studying Christianity was focused on Protestantism. A Catholic friend of mine recommended me this book, as I was looking for some factual history on the church.
That background being given, this book is dangerous. It is extremely conservatively biased, almost completely one sided. However, it is presented as God's Gospel Truth and many people will read it that way.
Crocker's book does not lie (at least not much) persay- his bias is not in reinventing the truth, but rather in re-framing it in a way that makes his case sound convincing. This makes it very seductive to logical people who haven't heard the other side of the story. One of the continuing trends in this book is the outright demonization of non-catholics. Any catholic can be forgiven his downfalls, which are mentioned offhandedly, if at all, while non Catholics are almost always incapable of being decent people.
Here are some of the beliefs that Crocker (an amusingly ironic name, I might note) has steeped into his history:
-In the opening quotation, he advocates the abandoning of reason and a return to faith. Reason has been the spark for all of the developments of the modern world. At the same time, he pushes Catholicism as the sole source of reason, without really showing how the religion is rational. When reason disagrees with him, he sees it as evil; when Catholics forge their own reasons, he lauds them as the only ideas that make sense. Near the end of the book (p. 413), he states (almost explicitly) that non-catholics are incapable of reasonable, intelligent discussion.
-He advocates monarchy over democracy. "Monarchy and monotheism go together," he writes. He basically blames democracy and nationalism for everything that went wrong in the twentieth century- as if his beloved Christian kings didn't start wars for power or land. He glorifies the crusades, and it actually sounds like he wants more of them. He lauds the dark ages as a high point for Christianity. He applauds Napoleon. While he is always ready with the number of deaths caused by things like the Reformation, he never ever gives a death toll for the wars he supports.
-He supports a very conservative view of women, lauding Paul and Napoleon's views- in Napoleon's words, the "weakness of women's brains, the instability of their ideas... their need for perpetual resignation... all this can only be met by religion." Crocker says that in this Napoleon "Sounds like a father of the church."
-He is against the rule of secular law: "Every recourse to the law and courts is a calamity."
-He justifies the inquisition, which I'll admit makes some sense in terms of putting the inquisition into context. But he steps over the line when he says on page 392 that if the inquisition had not been stopped, the Holocaust would have never happened.
-He barely mentions other Church sponsored sins, like the selling of indulgences.
These are but a few of the serious issues that I had with this book. I truly hope that most Catholics do not believe in Crocker's history, because it is not a history. A history needs to be objective. Crocker denies any progress made in modern times and prefers a return to the injustices of monarchy. Ultimately, the hisotry of the Catholic church is worth studying. There is no doubt that it has had a profound impact on the world. But the history of the Catholic church is really just like the rest of the world- a history of politics and power- gaining power, extending it, and not letting any other religious groups have any access to it. There have been very good catholics, there have been very bad catholics, just as can be said for every other gorup of people. Don't believe the propaganda.
If you must read this book, please, please read it with a large grain of salt.
Don't Waste Your Precious Time With This One!.......2005-10-29
A few years ago I saw Crocker on the C-Span program called `Booknotes.' He was discussing his book in a Q&A setting. The presentation on this show presented the book as if it was a new solidly researched work of Church History. Boy was that book ever misrepresented.
Crocker's work is not the `rock solid' history text that Sean Hannity claims it is in a blurb on the back cover of the book. In fact, if this is what Hannity calls `rock solid' history I would really hate to see pathetic history. This work is solid at certain points, but overall it is very poorly researched and documented.
There are so many problems with this work it is difficult to decide where to begin criticism of it. First, the research Crocker performed and documents in the book is terrible. When dealing with certain individuals and their thought, he hardly ever uses primary sources to support his claims. Rather, Crocker customarily uses secondary sources which often times do not themselves quote from primary sources. If I did this kind of research in my Graduate classes I would be laughed out of the classroom by my professors.
Second, Crocker describes certain people (mainly Protestants) in such a heinous fashion that he ends up being very uncharitable. He does the very thing that he complains about in this work. He treats certain thinkers in a very polemical fashion while at the same time demeans these same thinkers for being polemical in their approach, and then faults them for this action.
His sections on the Reformation are so erroneous I was embarrassed for him. For example, he declares things about Martin Luther and never sites a reference supporting the claims (see page 236-237). When Crocker makes a claim, for instance about Luther (e.g. on page 237) doing or claiming to have said a certain thing, Crocker quotes from a secondary source, not from Luther himself. Like most other pathetic historical texts (written by non-historians) Crocker tries to psycho-analyze Luther. If Crocker would have simply taken the time to do better more efficient research he would have had a better grasp of Luther and what actually occurred at the Reformation. Instead, Crocker reduces himself to poor scholarship, name calling, abusive speech, and scant factual details with no references, and this is `rock solid history.' However, this occurs not just in his section on the reformation, but in other sections as well. This is a trend throughout the book.
If Crocker thinks that by being 'funny' and acting like a silly ninth grade history student who is bored in class by making snide remarks about historical figures is good history, then why should I take this work seriously (like so many other reviewers claim I should)?
There are so many other works available from so many other reputable Church History scholars that are so much better than this bilge. Don't waste your precious time on this nonsense.
The Party Line.......2005-06-23
There are two ways you could read this book. Way #1 is as a factual, truthful history of the Catholic Church. Way #2 is as an accounting of what the Church believes and promulgates as its own history. Being that the book is endorsed by Sean Hannity and Pat Buchanan, I'm guessing the author would prefer Way #1, but you, the discriminating reader, are better advised to go with Way #2. Essentially it's a strictly orthodox recounting of the evolution of Church doctrine. That can be an interesting read, as long as you balance it out with more objective and less agenda-bound books on the same subject. This one is definitely not written from a neutral perspective, so you need to keep that in mind. But it will show you the view from Rightist Rome.
With that in mind, it's hard to give it a rating. The writing isn't bad, and if you allow for the bias, it's fairly cogent too. But it does tend to overreact and blitz everything that's not strictly orthodox or that has any hint of change in it, which is unfortunate because it makes the writer look reactionary. So three stars kind of sums it up. Not bad, but not good, either.
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This book is essential reading for any student of Burma, China-India relations, politico-economic security in the region, or military and strategic priorities in Asia.
"This study is unique in the literature and it is evident that it will be required reading for anyone seriously concerned with Myanmar, the Southeast Asia region, and indeed with the relationships between India and China. It is not only those observers of the Burmese scene who are in Mr. Selth's debt, but also those involved in the study of the military in various societies who can learn much from this important volume. There are lessons of Burma/Myanmar applicable in relation to policies in other multi-ethnic states, in economic development, and in civil-military relations. Mr. Selth has given us much to muse on beyond the borders of that unfortunate country."
— from the Foreword by David I. Steinberg
The key to coming to grips with modern Burma is understanding the country's armed forces. Although it has dominated all aspects of Burmese life since the 1962 coup, there has been no comprehensive or detailed study of the Tatmadaw as a military institution. Drawing on five years of research in Burma and beyond, including interviews with military specialists and commentators, Andrew Selth has written the first book on the inner workings of the Tatmadaw.
Here is a scholarly and objective account of Burma's strategic posture, its defense policies and threat perceptions; its military doctrine, defense expenditures, arms acquisitions, and combat capabilities. Here are chapters on Burma's intelligence apparatus, and its suspected uses of chemical and biological weapons. Diagrams and maps illustrate the Tatmadaw's organization, structure, and order of battle.
The author pays particular attention to the dramatic expansion and modernization of the Tatmadaw since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising and the secret role that countries like China have played in this process. There are valuable insights into the way the armed forces have attempted to govern Burma over the past 14 years, their internal disputes, and how they see their future role. Finally, the book examines how the Tatmadaw might cope with a democratic government coming to power in Rangoon.
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Everywhere we turn, we are surrounded by glory. There is glory in every tree and flower. There is the splendor in the rising and setting sun. Every living creature reflects its own glory. Man in his own way through his actions and character expresses an essence of glory. But the glory that we see in Creation is but the barest reflection of the greater glory of the Creator.
Dr. Munroe surgically removes the religious rhetoric out of this most-oft used word, replacing it with words that will draw you into the powerful Presence of the Lord. The Purpose and Power of God's Glory not only introduces you to the power of the glory but practically demonstrates how God longs to see His glory reflected through man.
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A challenge to find your Glory.......2005-08-29
This is an excellent book that implores today's chistian's to discover and manifest the glory that God has placed in all of us. Very motivating.
A Book With Nuggets.......2005-07-22
Dr. Monroe has made this an excellent book that causes one to think more carefully about life and the decisions made. It teaches and is very inspirational.
A wonderful book that will cause you to worship God more........2003-05-24
This is a powerful book that causes one to want the Glory of God to come into their life in a deeper way. This book causes one to understand that we are created to worship Him, and that God's Glory showing up in our lives is the result of our praise and fruitful life style. This book will ignite your dreams to fullfill your purpose in life. It teaches that there are untapped ideas and creativity that live in all of us that need to be cultivated by having the right environment. I always enjoy reading Dr Myles Monroes' books, as they are about purpose and planting the right seeds in our lives. I have also heard him speak in person and he is powerful! His books have been very inspirational in my life, and he planted the seeds in me to begin writing and to fullfill more of my purpose.
--Don Christie
Author of "The Unbroken Wholeness Power of God" and
"Actual Proof of My Existence"
Want to know your ability?.......2002-11-06
This book is very good for any reader. It is really easy to understand and yet for any theologian brings a great foundation for studies based upon God's word dealing with this subject.
Myles Munroe is very good at bringing analogies which could be understand with ease from anybody 12 to 100 yrs. old. He does a great job expressing his points and allows your mind to wander into areas of your life which need change. The Purpose and Power of God's Glory can be used to be encouragement for anybody whether Christian or non-Christian, but most of all this book will bring empowerment to the reader if they begin to live by this book. Don't take this material for granted, it is vital for any life.
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It's not about us! It's about God!.......2003-08-06
In the book "From Mourning to Morning", Harry and Cheryl Salem share with us the heart wrenching story of the home going of their daughter, Gabrielle. The faith, hope, and strength that the Salems' hold onto through their journey with Gabrielle is unbelievable...and only attainable through their love for Jesus.
As I read this book, which was nearly impossible to put down, I had a renewed sense of hope and a definite increase in faith. Very inspirational.
God's ways are not our ways!.......2001-06-02
Well written, this book answers many questions that people have about sickness,death and dying. It is a very positive book that while reading, I senced the very presence of God. There is no doubt in my mind that Cheryl & Harry and their entire family allowed God to use this book to help uplift and restore many people who are struggling with the tragedies of life.
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