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Title: As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning by Richard John Neuhaus ISBN: 0-465-04931-1 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Buyer Beware
Comment: Neuhaus is the ideological equivalent of a Pat Buckhanan, or a Jesse Helms.
It's unfortunate that such personages attain perpetually sponsored platforms to make comfortable careers perched on soapboxes pontificating arrogant, narrow, bigoted, disrespectful, negative commentary on those they choose to target--and are afforded with consistent respect and never personally challenged all the while.
Buyer beware: Neuhaus is not a benevolent, spiritual personage. He is calculated social mover aligned with various neo-conservative organizations. He leads a think tank which which serves as a ruthless pro-Vatican (and anti-anyone-else-who-should-happen-to-cross-my-path) propaganda machine. He routinely publishes rabidly hompohobic articles, and demonstrates little respect or toleration for religious or human diversity.
This isn't the work of a wise, gratious spiritual person, or a great intellectual: It's neo-conservative agenda pushing. Just be aware of this before buying...
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb meditation
Comment: This little book is a superb meditation on the mysteries of death (and life) for a Christian. With characteristic clarity, Neuhaus offers a series of ruminations on his own near-death experience, from which he emerged with his faith fully intact.
Rating: 4
Summary: From the heart...
Comment: First of all, I'm very skeptical about anyone being visited by super-natural beings. Indeed, I believe it is wise be skeptical about those kinds of reports. It is essential to test, and critique those accounts. However, with that said, I am also a person who has very much enjoyed the previous writing of Neuhaus - especially 'The Naked Public Square'. As a result, I wasn't sure how to take this book. Here are some thoughts.........
--Someone once said, 'death is an interesting statistic, it's one out of one'. We will all face death and as a result our awareness of death can be both existentially shocking as well as an intense motivator for pursuing ultimate reality and religious truth. Neuhaus does a great job of guiding the reader to this realization.
--Neuhaus writes a book, which is dramatically different from books like 'Embraced by the Light'. It is a book not about warm and subjective feelings, but it is about how we face the difficulty of dieing. How do people who believe very different things deal with death and react to dieing? Where can we find comfort? What is true about the after-life? These are complex questions requiring honest answers. Neuhaus is honest, but I wish he had been more specific regarding how he answers these questions.
--I do appreciate his non-sentimental writing and his willingness to write a book as personal as this one. There's no question this book ends up being inspirational, however, I'm still not sure on exactly what Neuhaus prescribes for the problem of the human condition. Is it religion, relationship, forgiveness, faith? Since he is a Catholic his religious convictions do come through, but if I had my way, I wish he was a bit more theological in his conclusions.
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Title: Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross by Richard John Neuhaus ISBN: 0465049338 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying (The Ethics of Everyday Life) by Richard John Neuhaus ISBN: 0268027579 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge ISBN: 0060660430 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored by George Weigel ISBN: 0066213304 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Triumph : The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-Year History by H. W. Crocker III ISBN: 0761516042 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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