I've got a post from Venerable Newman on my blog on this subject.....
Donna Marie Lewis | Homepage | 12.31.02 - 3:00 pm | #

The link to "Let Mary Be" was great.
caroline | 12.31.02 - 3:14 pm | #

I am pleasantly surprised to learn that Jimmy Swaggart says that Mary is the Mother of God. Some Evangelicals would deny even that.

Rosemarie | 12.31.02 - 11:31 pm | #

Peace, Mark.

Um, may I ask just who a perfect theologian might be? I wasn't aware Norris had any theological pretensions in any of her books. And about that "feeling her way toward the Church," I think it's clear she's using a whole lot more than a sense of touch to point the way for others.
Todd | 12.31.02 - 11:42 pm | #

Monday, I blogged an article on this book.
ELC | Homepage | 01.01.03 - 8:16 am | #

In re Kathleen N : Last time I had jury duty (a 3° F. day in the first month of 2000) I took Ms Norris's Amazing Grace with me. With caveats akin to yours (don't expect Wojtyla or Ratzinger), I'd say it made fairly decent reading.
dylan | Homepage | 01.01.03 - 2:55 pm | #

Here's a link to the abbey where K. Norris serves as an oblate:

http://www.assumptionabbey.com/


David | 01.02.03 - 9:44 am | #

Did someone say something about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart?
John Hearn | 01.02.03 - 1:17 pm | #

That's a good article. It seems that we who are Protestants fail to realize that the Reformers didn't want to eliminate Mary from the picture and make her simply "Jesus' mother." Luther and Calvin still paid great respect to her as the Virgin Mother of Christ (and yes, the Mother of God - if that is understood properly). Her faith - and humility - should be an example for us all.

However, I think the extent to which Marian devotion is taken in the Catholic Church is alienating to us as Protestants, since it seems to make her almost inhuman, nearly divine, when really she should be an example, an utterly human figure. The Mary of the Scriptures shall be called blessed by all generations, but that doesn't mean lifting her up as the Queen of Heaven and giving her an immaculate conception and bodily assumption. I prefer to think of the Mary who lived on 2000 years ago doing very ordinary and earthy actions - going to visit her cousin Elizabeth, going down to Bethlehem for the census, giving birth, asking Jesus for a miracle, weeping in front of the Cross. That is a Mary whom we can emulate and honor, while reserving worship for God alone. And isn't that what she wants? She is blessed only because of her Lord, and the faith she was given to see the promise.
evan donovan | 01.03.03 - 1:57 pm | #