With colorful writing and lots of quotations, Tyler Blanski relates his personal faith journey. I can identify with his struggle to find your place in the world and Christianity. Seems he's still on that quest. I do really appreciate his desire to accept Christianity as the Bible presents it with all its mysteries and seemingly unscientific improbabilities. I'm glad for his rejection of a consumer-driven approach.
As he relates stories of medieval saints, his writing still has a way of making Christian teaching not as unlike sheer fantastical ideas as I believe it to be, as if we're also open to faith in nymphs and satyrs. There is both a very rational element to faith and that which we just must accept without fully comprehending, but that's not to say that this part is irrational or magical (which he does hint at though not as much as I'd like). I'd say there are more extraneous than biblical quotes in this book which, along with its tone, take it away from serious theology. Still again, his heart and his hope are that of all believers who want a real historically-sound faith that infuses their world, though it's important to keep in mind it's not this world that we were made for (at least not this world as it is). I received a free copy of this book through booksneeze.com in order to review it.