I welcome your book recommendations

In a great revelation I discovered that I don't have enough time left to read everything that is already on my shelves. :) Thus other reviews and recommendations have become very important to help me choose which books are worth my time. So too, I hope, my reviews will help others make informed decisions about the priorities on their time.

A teaching on 'fat Christians' left me concerned about the amount of teaching that I consume that just isn't used or walked out in life. The reviews have become a way for me to synthesize material more, instead of just greedily proceeding to the next literary experience. :)

Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Miracles of Prato

Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz teamed to write a fictional account of the life of Fra Filippo Lippi in 1450s Prato.

There is a lot of good historical detail that seems to depict accurately the period and it propelled me to find much of Lippi's work on line, but it was essentially a piece of 'candy' literature and is headed out the door.

The  15th century Church is portrayed as a pretty nasty institution of very worldly people, and perhaps reflecting the authors' own backgrounds, there is little indication that any of those living and working within the establishment had any relationship with Christ.  

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