Wednesday, December 23, 2009
I just finished Roberta Bondi's Memories of God and found it to be a wonderful spiritual memoir. Maybe for me it was just the right book at the right time, but she really walks the reader through her struggles to overcome the bad theology that both the Church and our culture can give us, especially as we absorb it as children, not having the sophistication to understand it even the way the adults around us do. For example, her first chapter is on the metaphor of God as father and the problems so many of us have with those fallen fathers who raised us. Bondi reached a deeper level of understanding God as father when she was reading chapter 14 of John's gospel and came to the phrase "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father." When she thought about Jesus as demonstrating the father, she didn't find that judgmental, demanding God at all. I recommend this book.
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