Description Into the Deep traces one woman\'s spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, Into the Roman Catholic Church.
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Abigail Favale has written a conversion memoir that focuses on the slow process of conversion, one that unfolds through a union of practice and intellectual inquiry .
Not Into the Deep.
Reading it is bound to be an event like that in the lives of two classes of readers if they dare to read it with open minds and hearts: those who call themselves Evangelicals and those who call themselves Christian \'feminists.\' The theology is profoundly Christ-centered, the psychology trustably honest, and the style winsomely alive." --Peter Kreeft, Boston College "Religious conversion narratives tend to be unrealistic, focusing on single epiphanies that are rare to most human beings. "There are events in life that leave you changed forever, right down to the very roots and heart of your being, because they go \'Into the deep.\' Like this book.
Into the Deep is a thoroughly twenty-first-century conversion, a compelling account of recovering an ancient faith after a decade of doubt.
There, she discovered the startling beauty of a sacramental cosmos, a vision of reality that upended her notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and authority.
Her vivid prose brings to life the wrenching tumult of conversion--a conversion that began after she entered the Church and began to pry open its mysteries.
She writes candidly about grappling with wounds from her past, Catholic sexual morality, the male priesthood, and an interfaith marriage.
With humor and insight, the author describes her gradual exodus from Christian orthodoxy and surprising swerve Into Catholicism.
A decade later, on the verge of atheism, she found herself entering the oldest male-helmed institution on the planet--the last place she expected to be.
As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her life and faith.
Description Into the Deep traces one woman\'s spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, Into the Roman Catholic Church
