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Article: A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints.
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- Commonweal
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- March 10, 1995
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Amazing in their variety, as the seventeen essays that editor Paul Elie has gathered together in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints illustrate, the lives of the saints express startlingly disparate ways of imitating Christ. One doesn't have to be Catholic or even religious (and a number of these authors are neither) to become charmed or inspired by saints' lives, their stark confessions and acute spiritual insights, and, sometimes, their endearingly comedic stories. The saints - the cranky, the gregarious, the sensual, the neurotic, the intellectual, the stubborn, the sweet - break into the lives of these writers, disturbing, illuminating, and provoking.
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