whitneydziurawiec's review
3.0
3 ⭐ Though this book really met me where I was and shifted some things spiritually, I think it was just one of those "right place, right time" kind of things. Others may not find it as helpful or necessary, and the book's writing/flow is just alright. I am thankful for what it did for me spiritually - might be good for those going through a spiritually dry season and aren't vehemently opposed to more charismatic/mystic elements of faith.
davidkleinhans's review
5.0
What a marvelous book. Richard Beck does such a great job at outlining how the problems that we experience on the far side of the enlightenment lies in ejecting echantment, spirituality, and wonder, not just out of the world, but also out of our faith. He then goes on to make a strong case for recovering that lost enchanted faith in a post-enlightenment world.
jtisreading's review
4.0
I can read Beck's books all the time. One of the reasons I read these books is to remind myself ( a very cognitive theological think horse) to shut up and take in the world. TO stop thinking about the metaphysical and experience the supernatural reality within and through me. This book, like the past few I've read by Beck, reminded me to be enchanted. Strangely enough, this cognitive-focused theologian is enchanted quite easily, I just often don't allow myself to emotionally feel the enchantment and that was the beauty of this book's timing. Interestingly I found the criticism the book doles out to both the more reformed and then the SBNR (Spiritual But Not Religious) crowd something very serious to think about. As more and more people I know that are becoming (SBNR) I have found books like SELLING SPIRITUALITY, and McMindfulness to remind me that the consumeristic spirit is an almost universal attachment. I appreciate Beck brings us a kind way to face some of these particularized issues and then to recognize that creation is not a transaction and neither is grace in Christ.
blairrose22's review
fast-paced
1.0
There weren’t proper citations. In addition, the author uses concepts and terminology created by Charles Taylor without providing credit, at least in the first part of the book.
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