{"id":57648,"date":"2021-09-22T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=57648"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T22:11:50","slug":"brief-book-review-signs-of-grace-sacraments-in-poetry-and-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/brief-book-review-signs-of-grace-sacraments-in-poetry-and-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: Signs of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW90191133 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW90191133 BCX0\">Signs of Grace: Sacraments in Poetry and Prose<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW90191133 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW90191133 BCX0\">By David Brown and David Fuller<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57649 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51Q4D86XSKL._SX302_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51Q4D86XSKL._SX302_BO1204203200_.jpg 304w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51Q4D86XSKL._SX302_BO1204203200_-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51Q4D86XSKL._SX302_BO1204203200_-257x400.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/>Who should read this<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">? Preachers, Theology\/Catholic Studies professors,\u00a0catechists\u00a0and adult faith formation specialists looking for inspiration and useful quotations when preaching or teaching sacraments and sacramentality.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What difference will this book make<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">? All too often sacraments are presented prosaically, concentrating on various theories about how sacraments \u201cwork\u201d.\u00a0 This collection of short excerpts from authors ranging from Lancelot Andrewes and W. H. Auden to Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth sparks the imagination, inviting us to enrich our sacramental imagination.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What will you (the reader) like the most<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">?\u00a0 Placing individual treatment of baptism, confirmation, eucharist, ordination, marriage, forgiveness, anointing and death in the context of a sacramental appreciation for the natural world, other human\u00a0beings\u00a0and art.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What will get you (the reader) thinking<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">?\u00a0 The number of citations that question the claims made for sacramental experience.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0 Rather than being caught in futile debates over the number of the sacraments, the compilers cite St. Augustine defining a sacrament as \u201cthe visible form of invisible grace\u201d and note that \u201c[a]s late as the twelfth century as many as thirty [sacraments] were identified.\u201d\u00a0 They organize their material into nine chapters, following the contemporary trend of extending of the term \u201csacrament\u201d to Christ and\/or the Church as sacrament(s) and addition to the classic two or seven.\u00a0 Best of all, the\u00a0contextualizations\u00a0the compilers offer for each of their citations sometimes reinforce a sense of visiting old favorites, sometimes startle with new insights into half-remembered quotations and frequently delight with introductions to completely new authors or perspectives.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>REVIEWER: Michael Joncas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\">David Brown and David Fuller, eds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\">Signs of Grace: Sacraments in Poetry and Prose<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\"><em>.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW179381794 BCX0\">Forward<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW179381794 BCX0\">\u00a0by P. 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