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Reading for the Love of God:
How to Read as a Spiritual Practice
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Hardback: Brazos Press, 2023
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“Hooten Wilson makes the case for reading as a means of transformation into Christlikeness. Her own meditations on the theology, spirituality, and ethics of reading are punctuated with studies of great Christian readers, male and female, down through the ages, which adds a rich layer of historical insight to her own brilliant reflections. This book is profound and practical at once. As St. Augustine would say, tolle lege (take and read)!”
-Tish Harrison Warren
“Reading for the Love of God invites us to not only grow in our appreciation for good, true, and beautifully-written words, but to be redeemed by them. By centering us in the reality of the loving God, Word made flesh, Hooten Wilson casts a vision for reading all words—scholastic to monastic, philosophy to fantasy, historic to humorous—with the eyes of love.”
-from our review by Tamara Hill Murphy
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