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The title is the thesis, that our faith requires a "ruthless trust" in what is true and good. Manning's writing, as always, is lucid and engaging, expertly weaving insight with stories to help us to understand on a deeper level the internalization of grace. His chapter on gratefulness has impacted my faith since I first read it in high school and I return to it often as a reminder that i am exceedingly ungrateful and am trapped and crippled by my sense of entitlement and the bitterness that grows out of that. Manning's goal of "blowing the dust off of shopworn theology" is achieved. This book also has a lot to say for anyone who is in a period of crisis, of transition, and general disorientation. Manning helps pastor us through the lack of foundation with a ruthless clinging to the God who is a foundation that lasts.

2022-11-14 13:39