Official Review: The Beauty of the Lord by Patrick Brady
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Official Review: The Beauty of the Lord by Patrick Brady
The Beauty of the Lord by Patrick Brady is a religious book meant to show Christians how to live with Jesus, not their own desires, at the forefront of their lives. The author describes his struggle with alcoholism and how he came to follow Jesus and learned to give up his attachment to the material world. He also includes information about how the world is currently at the end of the Church Age, a time of darkness preceding the great harvest foretold in the Bible. He uses these two ideas to talk about how people should choose, in this time, to turn back towards Jesus and place him at the forefront of their lives.
My largest issues with this book was the level of generalization it employed. With the author making such a specific claim by saying that we are in the end of the Church Age just before the great harvest, I would have thought he had specific evidence to back up this idea. Instead, he offers generalizations about how dark times are, how people have fallen away from God, and how Christian beliefs are being challenged worldwide. These are things that people have been saying for generations, so I don’t consider them to be strong evidence to suggest that we are now at the end of the Church Age.
In addition to this example, the issues with generalization carried over to other areas of the book. The author gives very few specific suggestions as to how people should follow Jesus and live with Him at the forefront of their lives. He constantly says that we must leave our concerns for the material world behind, but there are few concrete suggestions of what this might look like.
Overall, I would rate this book 2 out of 4 stars. It is well written and offers some interesting ideas about our position in the timeline of the Bible, but I don’t feel like I took anything from it that would affect how I live my life each day. I gave it two stars instead of one because I learned some interesting history about the Bible, but I couldn’t give it more than two stars since I feel that it failed in its mission of pushing the reader to change the way they live their life.
I would recommend this book to adult readers who are interested in explanations of the metaphors and parables in the Bible or those who would like to find out why the author believes we are at the end of the Church Age. If you are looking for concrete suggestions on how to live a life that is pleasing to God, I would recommend you look elsewhere.
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You don't write a book as sensitive as this, then fill it up with blanket statements and assertions. You should do your homework so as not to confuse the impressionable and weak in faith. The end is here, so sayeth the world even before my birth
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Thank you Julianna for the review.