Reviews for Boldly Asking: Deepening your walk with God through prayer, Vol. 2

The average rating for Boldly Asking: Deepening your walk with God through prayer, Vol. 2 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-03-09 00:00:00 Edward Brandon The one book you'll ever need to read if you wish to understand the concept(s) of monarchical government. Take notes inside the book or on a separate pad so you can keep up with the dialogue. De Maistre speaks through each character in his own way and at random points, but for the most part it is the Senator and the Count who hold his closest opinions. Dark, brutal, religious but restrained. What I love about JDM is that he doesn't preach a sermon, instead he delivers an imposing three-pronged essay on the fundamental constructs of the best system of government to ever rule over humankind. Hands down, democracy doesn't stand a chance as long as this book is alive. Read.This.Book. -bb

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-02 00:00:00 Juan Montalvo this is certainly a work of its time, nevertheless it is a goldmine of truly timeless meditations on prayer, violence and sacrifice - also highly quotable. Altho a man of his time as a royalist statesmen and diplomat, De Maistre seems in many ways also a relic of an age past, a truly medieval spirit and a relentless persecutor of "tous les sophismes du raisonnement", i.e. 'philosophie': "Elle dessèche, elle racornit le coeur, et lorsequ'elle endurci un homme, elle croit avoir fait un sage", which also results in lots of sharp, oftentimes hilarious, polemics against the likes of Voltaire, Locke and Rousseau: "Tout ces philosophes du dernier siècle, sans excepter même les meilleurs, sont des poltrons qui ont peur des esprits"; this does certainly not apply to De Maistre himself, which is why he seems, among all his contemporaries, one of the few sane men left.