Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety

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This Hardcover Book item from St Anthony Messenger Pr was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety by St Anthony Messenger Pr. "One must live in a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the Church." Wow! (a quote Rohr uses in the book by Italian Monsignor, Richard Guardini, early 20th century) "And one cannot separate Christ from His cross. And one cannot separate Christ from His bloody painful Church." Rohr teaches (to me at least) that we should live Christlike behavior instead of our pompous duality, always joining hands to be against some other "thing/persons/religion/denominations/etc. He set fire to my weakened human condition that I seem to whine about all time to myself. We must suffer to get to the light at the end of the tunnel, but we "must" go through the darkness of the tunnel to get to the light. I loved the book.¤

2) Hardcover Book Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety by St Anthony Messenger Pr. I have recently begun exploring Christianity after many years away from the church. Christianity is laden with language that is misunderstood and dog tired. I´ve been really seeking what all of that language and symbolism is pointing toward. And does any of it dovetail with my own spiritual experience. There were points reading this book where I was truly elated because aspects of the deep heart of Christianity just glowed at me with the lustre of something true.

Rohr´s exploration of victimhood and scapegoating seemed so deeply appropriate in the post September 11th world. The notion of transferring our pain, vanquishing it and making ourselves mighty as we assign it to someone else. The challenge is, of course, to be aware of and hold your pain, allowing it to transform you. I´m no Richard Rohr so suffice it that my paraphrase is profoundly anemic.

The book is dense and I´m sure I didn´t really "get it" all because truthfully I have no idea how any of the contents relate to the title of the book or the chapter titles for that matter. None of that detracts from the truly profound insights he shares.

Rohr strikes me as someone who has a certain clarity and a desire to convey it, share it, spread it about. I had a moment of suspicion at one point, thinking he was telling me "it´s like this". But it passed. While I wouldn´t say the book is chock full of humility it leaves plenty of room for a reader to think it through. I really appreciated all of the biblical references and looked them all up. He uses the New Jerusalem Bible. Mine is the New American Standard Bible. It was interesting how far apart some of the translations were.¤

3) Hardcover Book Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety by St Anthony Messenger Pr. It amazes me that a person who writes as much as Father Rohr can be as fresh and insightful as he is in each new book. Hope Against Darkness is nothing short of brilliant. As I understand him, Rohr argues that the spiritual searcher of today is caught between the modern and the post-modern worldviews. Both are no longer acceptable, but both contain strengths we ought to retain as best we can. The anxiety that arises from this ambiguous state of homelessness is the dis-ease he treats in this book, and his remedy is a richly creative appeal to Franciscan spirituality. Simply wonderful! A book to read, re-read, and give to others.¤

4) Hardcover Book Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety by St Anthony Messenger Pr. This is a classic Rohr book because he gives new thought to his life-long pursuit of "Francis: Rebuild My Church." I especially like his "beyond victimhood" chapter because it encourages me to be a faithful Catholic in the midst of all the "darkness." I now cling to the comment "the cross is about standing against hate without becoming hate yourself." Rohr has done it again -- great encouragement to keep serving this church we love so much!¤

5) Hardcover Book Hope Against Darkness : The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi in an Age of Anxiety by St Anthony Messenger Pr. Richard Rohr offers hope to us in a confusing time. "Our age has been called the age of anxiety," he writes in Chapter Two of Hope Against Darkness. "Yet," he explains, "to be a good leader...you have to be able...to hold patiently a certain degree of anxiety...Leaders who cannot hold anxiety will never lead you to anyplace new." Saint Francis, he says, can lead us to that new place.¤

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