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Title: Grossly misrepresents the Christian contemplative journey
Review: In framing his idiosyncratic paradigm of the spiritual journey, Marion cites at length the works of contemplatives St. John of the Cross and Bernadette Roberts. He patently misrepresents both. I rated this book one star because a review cannot be published without assigning at least one. It deserves none, for it obfuscates Christian revelation and its true mystical elan, rather than clarifies them.Although John of the Cross is not alive to answer misrepresentions of his work, Bernadette is, and has replied to Marion's distortions of her paradigm, point-by-point, in a recent work, "Forcing-the-Fit." A description of her rebuttal can be found on the site, "Bernadette's Friends."Joseph Conti, Ph.D.Department of Comparative ReligionCalifornia State University, Fullerton
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