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This is a FANTASTIC look at mountain bike skills. I'm rusty from a long layoff, and in addition to getting out and just *riding*, this book has been very inspirational and educational to me. There's a ton of useful information in here that I just didn't learn by osmosis when I was riding super regularly, as well as some details that have just changed as bikes and trails change.
This will be on my bookshelf for a long time to come, and I'll recommend it broadly to anybody I know who's a mountain biker.
This will be on my bookshelf for a long time to come, and I'll recommend it broadly to anybody I know who's a mountain biker.
This is an intriguing and interesting contemporary addition to the Celtic Christianity library.
Kenneth McIntosh has taken a good approach for this subject: Tell stories, tell some history, illuminate application for contemporary life. Why more books on celtic faith don't tell stories is a mystery.
The text is a very good overview of the nature of Celtic faith for a contemporary audience. It's broad and not particularly deep, but tells its story well - it calls the listener to a holistic, embodied faith that is missing from much of Western Christianity. It sets the Celtic faith in its cultural, historical and religious context very well, and is particularly strong at describing the unique nature of NATURE in this stream of faith. Chapter 7 (God revealed in nature) and Chapter 8 (Furred and Feathered neighbors) are highlights.
The chapter on the everyday nature of Celtic prayer was a disappointment - far too brief and shallow - and should be supplemented with one of the other excellent resources on the subject.
I teach a graduate level course in Celtic spirituality and am using this text as one of our two primary texts (with Esther de Waal's Celtic Way of Prayer), and supplemental readings. McIntosh's work compares well with several works by Ian Bradley, Ray Simpson and other contemporary writers on the subject.
Kenneth McIntosh has taken a good approach for this subject: Tell stories, tell some history, illuminate application for contemporary life. Why more books on celtic faith don't tell stories is a mystery.
The text is a very good overview of the nature of Celtic faith for a contemporary audience. It's broad and not particularly deep, but tells its story well - it calls the listener to a holistic, embodied faith that is missing from much of Western Christianity. It sets the Celtic faith in its cultural, historical and religious context very well, and is particularly strong at describing the unique nature of NATURE in this stream of faith. Chapter 7 (God revealed in nature) and Chapter 8 (Furred and Feathered neighbors) are highlights.
The chapter on the everyday nature of Celtic prayer was a disappointment - far too brief and shallow - and should be supplemented with one of the other excellent resources on the subject.
I teach a graduate level course in Celtic spirituality and am using this text as one of our two primary texts (with Esther de Waal's Celtic Way of Prayer), and supplemental readings. McIntosh's work compares well with several works by Ian Bradley, Ray Simpson and other contemporary writers on the subject.
In this book, Bradley reassesses his earlier writing on Celtic Christian spirituality, this time with a more responsible and less romanticized understanding of the early Celtic cents. This is a career just book that refutes some of Bradley is on earlier writing, while also staying true to the best fruit of the stream of the faith. It sets a more balanced historical framework for this world. I think it is a courageous book, and extremely helpful to those of us who have been influenced by the Celtic way and continue to seek to live by it.
GORGEOUS photography and printing in this stunning coffee table book. This is truly beautiful.
