E.Byron Anderson

Advantages: Good insights
Disadvantages: For a narrow audience

...History is full of examples of ecclesial disconnect -- the lack of a connection between the ideas of the church and the worship of the church and the social responsibility and action of the church. This still is a problem in many denominations and individual churches within denominations -- just what is the connexion between how we worship and how we act outside of worship? Shouldn't there be some connexion? Shouldn't what we do in church both influence and reflect what we do outside of church? Shouldn't our worship transform us, and, if yes, what is the nature of this transformation in the world? This book, 'Liturgy and the Moral Self: Humanity at Full Stretch Before God,' edited by E. Byron Anderson and Bruce T. Morrill, is a tribute and witness to the work of liturgical theologian Don E. Saliers, who challenged both the church... Read review

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Advantages: Insightful
Disadvantages: -

...I was pleased to read this book, as it was in many ways like having a deep conversation with old friends, which could include both authors Yust and Anderson, as well as the spiritual and theological persons highlighted, whose writings and insights were influential in my vocational development. Many is the person who feels a call, and may feel that this call has given him or her all that is needed for the journey. Some are dismissive or distrustful of academic education (which is sometimes appropriate), or other kinds of training. In the first chapter, authors Yust and Anderson highlight several in history who were taught by God rather than the academy, formal church institution, or other such recognisable courses of learning. This can be dangerous, taken in isolation, for it can be used in current times to justify the non-education, go... Read review

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Advantages: Suck it and see
Disadvantages: Some stuff will be lost if you don't know anything about Byron's life

...to destroy everything it loves, a tantalising, compelling and tragic character. This is what makes the premise of Holland's book so excellent - that Lord Byron was, in fact, a vampire - for Byron is the perfect character to shape a myth around. After all, Byron's actual history is quite fantastical in its own right, with his personal life being even more well known than his poems. It is well-documented that he travelled extensively throught Europe and was a decadent rake and womaniser who even had an affair with his own half-sister. He is also remembered for spending time attempting to create some kind of Utopian ideal alongside Mary and Persey Byshe Shelley, at the time when Mary wrote her novel Frankenstein after a night of ghost storytelling. It is a revealing aspect of his character that it is thought he was sleeping with both Mary Shelley... Read review

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