Author-Brennan Manning
Publisher-Multnomah Press
ISBN-0-88070-341-5
Brennan Manning has authored at least eleven books, most of which remain in print but they are not all published by Multnomah. He spends six months of each year speaking and directing spiritual retreats in order to proclaim the good news of God’s unconditional love and the absolute primacy of Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives. In describing this particular book he says “In these pages I have stuttered and stammered in a halting attempt to hint at the shattering reality of the furious love of God. Like an old miner panning the stream of his memories, I have reached back into the Scriptures to listen to God’s self disclosure. I have read hundreds of biblical, theological, and spiritual books seeking deeper understanding of the gospel of grace. I have freely employed story, imagery, poetry, symbolism and the language of metaphor and prose narrative to communicate something of the passionate love of our passionate God.” This writer has a revelation of the love of God which he seeks to communicate in all his books. He is not sparing of the details of his own life’s pathway. His personal battles and life changing discoveries as God has made Himself known to him against the background of profound personal failure. He comes from a Roman Catholic background though he moves in wide church circles as he conducts his service for the Lord. He frequently disparages the present day North American church, but without cynicism, always seeking to bring us back to the heart of God. His writings are not heavily theological nor filled with a multitude of scripture quotes and exegesis, but if you want to read books that are interesting, personal, well written and above all convey spiritual realities of the truth of God coming from the heart of a man who is not a theoretician then Brennan Mannings books are for you.
