Anyone interested in spirituality and interreligious relations, whether scholar or general reader, will find this book well worth reading – and rereading

International Journal of Asian Christianity

Why read this book? Because it reminds us what a life can look like when it flows from a single sacred interruption. Clooney doesn't offer conclusions. He offers presence. He offers the possibility that your own life, too, might be read as a story of grace. In the end, this isn't just a memoir. It's an invitation.

America Magazine

Comparative religion scholars and comparative theologians will be challenged gently by Clooney's memoir to question the disciplinary boundaries holding their disciplines apart, and general readers will find here a spiritually engaging chronicle of a calling to religious life that plays out in and between two distinctively different religious traditions. One outcome of comparative methodologies is the overcoming of barriers to understanding posed by religious differences, which is a result that this book quietly and effectively achieves.

Reading Religion

This is an unsparing self-portrait by a theological artist. It is revelatory but never self-indulgent. It is a springboard for readers to learn about ourselves as much as about the subject.

Religious Studies Review

The central theme of the memoir, which Clooney says is the 'inner story' of his life, is God's grace. He writes, 'At every stage of my life, I have received far more than I have given…even in midlife, I could not have imagined ending up where I am today.'

Global Indian Times

The extraordinary memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School, and the foremost Jesuit scholar on Hinduism … The memoir offers a sweeping account of his life as a Catholic Priest, Hindu Scholar, and a University Teacher for over forty years.

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