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Elizabeth Dreyer's Manifestations Of Grace
BOOK REPORT

Book: Manifestations Of Grace
Author: Elizabeth Dreyer Ph.D.

Student: Rob Pillar
Course: BMin
Module: Humanity And Grace
Date: 30th October 2007

Elizabeth Dreyer is currently professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University, a comprehensive Jesuit university founded in 1942 in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Dreyer has served on the faculties of several institutions, including Catholic University of America and The Washington Theological Union.
In 2004, Dreyer received the Elizabeth Ann Seton Medal from Mt. St. Joseph College in Cincinnati for her outstanding contributions to Catholic theology in the United States.
Dreyer writes and lectures widely on subjects ranging from medieval theology and mysticism to contemporary lay spirituality.

Dreyer, who holds a doctorate from Marquette University, has written a number of books, including Earth Crammed with Heaven: A Spirituality of Everyday Life, (Paulist, 1994) and Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant, (Paulist, 2005).

The subject of this book report, Manifestations of Grace, was first published in 1990 by Michael
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This for me is pivotal because there’s a sense in which I am tortured i.e. I see my self as a get on with the job kind of person which betrays a more reflective, creative self. This is the self which finds softness and generosity when I do what I love doing…. Reading, singing or playing music, exploring some new part of the world I live in, particularly a natural setting in God’s creation. This is the self which softens what is often perceived to be hardness in my attitudes to others, loved ones, friends, colleagues, the world in general, that skepticism that so distorts and diverts what are often good actions and

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