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Article: Losing God.(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
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- March 26, 1993
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Losing God, by Michael Paul Gallagher.
Twenty-Third Publications, $7.95, 127pp.
It is always a boon to find a good volume in the flood of often quite embarrassing popular literature that passes for Christian spirituality. Michael Paul Gallagher's little book is such a volume. An Irish Jesuit who spent many years as a university professor of literature, Gallagher offers us some examples--framed with stories from his own experiences as a teacher and a missionary in Latin America-of how he deals with those who come to him with deep problems of faith and practice. This is not an apologetic work in which Father has all the answers to all the stock questions. ...