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A review by rravenii
Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness by Matthew Kelly
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I couldn’t finish this. Each page was mushy, trite self-help secular psychology with Christianity sprinkled in. Not sure who it’s for. Children, maybe? There was no depth at all and the bare minimum Christian content to count as a “Christian book.” Very repetitive.
Maybe my edges are calloused from the spiritual heavyweights of the Catholic tradition, and I’m unfairly expecting more sackcloth-and-ashes and Beatific Vision… but as far as I could tell, there’s absolutely none of that in this book, nor the other one I tried to read, “The Biggest Lie in Christianity”. It’s more like a walk through a primary school hallway and a Barnes & Noble self-help aisle.
I’m not entirely against a positive outlook, and I do believe people should not despise themselves, but for any Christian book to not at all (or hardly - I did not finish and skimmed the rest) speak like it believes the basics of the faith (God is ultimately our only happiness) is automatically suspicious.
It is not theologically strong enough to recommend to my Christian friends and it is not generally serious enough to recommend to my secular friends. It’s somewhere in between and it falls short on both fronts.
Maybe my edges are calloused from the spiritual heavyweights of the Catholic tradition, and I’m unfairly expecting more sackcloth-and-ashes and Beatific Vision… but as far as I could tell, there’s absolutely none of that in this book, nor the other one I tried to read, “The Biggest Lie in Christianity”. It’s more like a walk through a primary school hallway and a Barnes & Noble self-help aisle.
I’m not entirely against a positive outlook, and I do believe people should not despise themselves, but for any Christian book to not at all (or hardly - I did not finish and skimmed the rest) speak like it believes the basics of the faith (God is ultimately our only happiness) is automatically suspicious.
It is not theologically strong enough to recommend to my Christian friends and it is not generally serious enough to recommend to my secular friends. It’s somewhere in between and it falls short on both fronts.