Into the Cloud of Knowing (eBook)

Renato Bonasera (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
324 Seiten
Renato Bonasera (Verlag)
978-0-6457026-0-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Any attempt to chart the human soul, much less the designs of God on the human heart, often ends in confusion, or abstraction. Not with Bonasera's new book 'Into the Cloud of Knowing.' In the spirit of the Incarnation, Bonasera draws us quickly into an incarnated view of God's hints and hunts for the elusive love of a human heart, inspired by the mystical events surrounding the death of a loved one. In the Eastern tradition of iconography, it is understood that painters 'write' the icons from dark shades to lighter, a theological discipline echoing God's creative act of bringing things to light. In the same vein, Bonasera shares how he has been forced to grapple with the darkest of questions, the presence of evil alongside an almighty, good God, the pain and suffering of children, the persecution and sorrow of the innocent, war, loss, martyrdom, and grace. Set against places as diverse as the ruddy backdrop of Western Australia, the jungles of Rwanda, dusty refugee camps fraught by gunfire, homes oppressed by demonic presence, the chaos of the London Blitz or the picturesque mountains of Sicily, the book merges creative non-fiction with biography, autobiography, theological reflection and social commentary, all fulled by an attitude of hope. Bonasera traces accounts of miracles, deliverances and the wisdom of children, spanning nearly a century. From a young boy dying of complications, a young girl martyred for her faith, and a deeply devoted panel of mothers and fathers, Bonasera leads you into the uniquely Sicilian gallery of his Australian mind.Bonasera peels back the layers of the human experience to include the impact that angels and demons have on us. Join him in a section devoted to stories of haunting and oppression, to a chapter rippling with the teasing tension of angelic guidance. He comes full circle with his own children, and the transformation they bring to him as a father. This book, his love gift for them and for posterity, is a single, sweeping ride through history and hagiography, replete with stories of saints living and canonised, a journey through what it means to be Catholic grounded in the immediate sun and sand of a person's life.It is assumed that the mystical life is a dark reality, reserved for the greatest, most meditative saints. 'Into the Cloud of Knowing' shows every Christian that each of our lives is filled with a million moments to help us slip through a rift, a Narnian wardrobe that we will recognise as personally familiar and forever new. Bonasera's gift of love to his children and for posterity, 'Into the Cloud of Knowing' is an invitation to join the countless souls who form the cloud of witnesses, experiencing God's presence and proclaiming his mercy, reminding us that if we pray for the eyes to see, we will find that God is present in everything.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: agnostic • Aquinas Colege • Atheist • Autobiography • Biography • brother Clery • Catholic • child cancer • Christian • Columbine massacre • Death • Deliverance • Faith • Fremantle • God • Healing • Holy Spirit • Hope • Inspirational • John Paul II • london blitz • Lourdes • Love • Mary • Memoir • miracles • Mystery • Mysticism • Perth • Prophecy • prophetic dreams • Rwanda genocide • Saint Anthony • Saints • san calogero • san cono • Sandy Cook • Scripture • sicily • sofia rodrigues • The Cloud of Unknowing • Vatican • wonders • Zambia
• ISBN-10: 0-6457026-0-9 / 0645702609
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6457026-0-6 / 9780645702606