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Post by homeschooldad on Dec 19, 2021 16:35:10 GMT
I found this book, presumably from one of several hundred book sales, thrift shops, or library discards of which I've availed myself over the years, and recently rediscovered as I have been opening up 15 years' worth of book storage. I'd never read it, and had forgotten all about it.
Just flipping through it, it looks like a simpler, less turgid, basically harmless version of The Poem of the Man-God (Maria Valtorta), a book about which I have deep reservations, and, from what I've heard, can't really be recommended (though others see it differently). It basically reads like popular historical fiction.
Has anyone else ever heard of it? Is it supposed to be some sort of private revelation, or is it just a popular, fanciful account of the life of Mary?
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 20, 2021 12:54:45 GMT
If it's a "private revelation", it sure ain't approved by the Church. www.madonnaministry.net/a-brief-history/If you think it's a nice book, feel free to read it for your own devotional purposes. I would not recommend promoting this author to other folks though, as he seems to have some unusual background. Also, while I can understand drawing a parallel to Quan Yin, it will be a cold day you-know-where before I regard Mary as equivalent to Isis, Shiva, or the "maiden, mother, and crone" pagan archetype. |
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Post by homeschooldad on Dec 21, 2021 17:24:47 GMT
If it's a "private revelation", it sure ain't approved by the Church. www.madonnaministry.net/a-brief-history/If you think it's a nice book, feel free to read it for your own devotional purposes. I would not recommend promoting this author to other folks though, as he seems to have some unusual background. Also, while I can understand drawing a parallel to Quan Yin, it will be a cold day you-know-where before I regard Mary as equivalent to Isis, Shiva, or the "maiden, mother, and crone" pagan archetype.
Thank you for this information, I wasn't able to find anything online, other than random places selling the book itself.
I am culling my home library and either giving away books I don't need anymore (Goodwill), saving them for prospective sale one of these days (traditional Catholic books that I don't need but want to make sure they get passed on to someone who will use them), or in the case of a book such as this one, shredding books that could be misused by a future reader. I had boxed up all of our books about pregnancy, and am destroying the ones that advise on contraception or sterilization, passing on the non-harmful ones to Goodwill for resale. I won't be needing them anymore.
This book is going in the shred bin.
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