Reviews for Blur: A Graphic Reality Check for Teens Dealing with Self-Image

The average rating for Blur: A Graphic Reality Check for Teens Dealing with Self-Image based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-08 00:00:00 Harry Wilson Originally a book in Spanish, Vida en el amor, the late (he died on March 1, 2020) Ernesto Cardenal's work opens with a preface by the well-known Trappist writer, Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Merton summarizes beautifully a book which looks simple, but on closer examination is a profound compendium on the meaning of love, the cosmos, religion, etc. Merton writes: "...what Ernesto Cardenal has seen and written down...is an ever-repeated discovery, an ever-new poetic intuition of the central reality of life. It is a hymn to life, and this is why it is so eminently truthful. With the depth of conviction Cardenal speaks again and again of that which simply is. Love is. All else is not, because in the same measure in which things partake of being, they partake of love. All that is not love, is not. All that which is, has its being and its action in love..." In 43 short reflections Cardenal shares his view of the universe, the relationship between humankind & non-rational creatures, all centered in the reality of love. It occurs to me that his work very much resonates with that of a number of contemporary "deep Incarnation" theologians: e.g., the late Denis Edwards (Australia); Niels Henrik Gregersen (Denmark); Elizabeth A. Johnson (New York); Celia Deanne-Drummond (Indiana); Christopher Southgate (England); and Richard Bauckham (England).

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-19 00:00:00 Alex Verse A Call To Stand Apart is one of Ellen White's best books for young adults