While training for the priesthood, a stint with a hospital chaplaincy team brought Mark face to face with a depth of suffering that blew his young, confident faith apart. Years later he was still picking up the pieces, but they began to show an entirely different picture of where and how God could be found.
The Collage of God is for all who find it difficult to reconcile the realities of life with easy and comfortable notions about faith. In imaginative and beautiful language, and illuminated by many quotes from modern writers and poets, Mark Oakley reconstructs faith as a collage of traditions and texts, the myriad experiences of living, imagination, silence and prayer by which we respond to the grace of God revealed in fragile lives.
A contemporary spiritual classic.
- ISBN10 1848255845
- ISBN13 9781848255845
- Publish Date 31 July 2012 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canterbury Press Norwich
- Format eBook
- Pages 128
- Language English
- URL http://canterburypress.co.uk/books/9781848252387/Collage-of-God