Jacob's Hip: Finding God in an Anxious Age

by Kerry S. Walters

A soul-stirring resource charting some of the transformations that can occur during these tense times. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570754373
• ISBN13: 9781570754371
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

outstanding and inspirational

Walters provides us with yet another book, beautifully and clearly written, scholarly but in no way frightful. In this book, he meditates on finding life and purpose in an unsettling world such as that following the 9/11 attacks. Excellent book, in style and content. It's a short 95 pages of text. The book is well worth the purchase price. A-. Highly recommended for those of us who have had some existential crisis since 9/11. An excellent read on a cold, wet, winter's day! Regardless of your religious background, it's inspirational.

This book is for anyone who wants peace

This is a disturbing and beautiful book. The author tries to make sense of the country's warrior attitude to the rest of the world following the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The gist of the message is that we need to embrace what the author calls precarity, which is basically insecurity. Only in insecuritycan we be free enough to trust ourselves, others and God. The final chapter, where the author talks about Christian pacifism in terms of the downward path (instead of the upwardly mobile path)is excellent.