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Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
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Michel tackles the confusing issue of the place of desire in those who have been redeemed. After all, God created us with desires. Does redemption mean that our desires are nullified or… heightened…or purified? If God grants us the desires of our hearts then where does suffering and disappointment fit in?
Using examples from her own experience and profuse quotations from important writers, Michel seeks to craft a theology of desire. She uses the Lord’s prayer throughout as an informal template that can keep us from straying too far from God’s desire to give us true joy.
This is a helpful book that bears reading. I found much to commend but did sense a certain choppiness that clashed a bit with my own rather regimented sense of order in theology. However, we can only benefit from reading Michel's book.
Using examples from her own experience and profuse quotations from important writers, Michel seeks to craft a theology of desire. She uses the Lord’s prayer throughout as an informal template that can keep us from straying too far from God’s desire to give us true joy.
This is a helpful book that bears reading. I found much to commend but did sense a certain choppiness that clashed a bit with my own rather regimented sense of order in theology. However, we can only benefit from reading Michel's book.
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