- Conversion stories FTW!
- Ordway is a fencer, an academic, a lover of Lewis and Tolkien. Sounds like just my cup of tea; I would love to meet her.
And Why You Might Not:
- I wouldn't recommend this to non-Christians, unless they were really open to Christianity.
Thoughts: Reading Catholic conversion stories, when one is a Catholic oneself, is always enjoyable. This one was especially fun because Ordway has many similar tastes to me. She had a Catholic imagination even before she was Catholic, and all the references to Tolkien and Lewis and fencing delighted me.
However, this book wasn't quite everything that I was hoping it would be. Too much of just a standard conversion story, I suppose. The last conversion story book I read before this was A Severe Mercy, which was brilliant and full of fascinating ideas. It was a book I longed to discuss with interesting people, and think of ways to change my own life based on it. This was more just how she came to the ideas that I already hold.
Also, I probably wouldn't recommend it to non-Christians, as I mentioned above. It's not by any means an apologetics book, and I don't think the arguments that convinced her are necessarily convincing to anyone else in this story format, without all the details and background she had.
However, this book wasn't quite everything that I was hoping it would be. Too much of just a standard conversion story, I suppose. The last conversion story book I read before this was A Severe Mercy, which was brilliant and full of fascinating ideas. It was a book I longed to discuss with interesting people, and think of ways to change my own life based on it. This was more just how she came to the ideas that I already hold.
Also, I probably wouldn't recommend it to non-Christians, as I mentioned above. It's not by any means an apologetics book, and I don't think the arguments that convinced her are necessarily convincing to anyone else in this story format, without all the details and background she had.
Grade: 3 1/2 stars
If You Like This, You Might Also Like:
- A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken: Because their conversions remind me of each other in some ways--both influenced by C.S. Lewis, both steeped in love of beauty. Also A Severe Mercy is fantastic.
- Rome Sweet Home by Scott and Kimberly Hahn: Because it's the only other conversion story book I can think of right now.
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