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A review by neilrcoulter
Beyond Our Selves: A Chosen Classic by Catherine Marshall
3.0
For a while now, I've been interested in reading Catherine Marshall, simply because I know that Richard Foster respects her very highly, and I respect Foster. I found this book, Beyond Our Selves, from 1961, on a giveaway shelf, and I've been reading bits of it here and there in my office over the past several months.
There is a lot of great content here on learning to depend on God and trust him for everything. These lessons will never get old, because I never seem to learn them very well. The teaching is couched in stories, mostly of friends of Marshall's, or of Marshall's own life or her late husband's, Peter Marshall (whom she almost always calls by his full name, "Peter Marshall," whenever she refers to him).
If my overall rating of the book is only average, it's likely because so many other writers in the years since this book have taken on these same themes in similar ways, and so it's not quite as fresh (and in some places is actually a little dated) as it certainly must have been when originally published. But the book is sincere and heartfelt, with tremendous wisdom about some of the challenges of the faithful life.
There is a lot of great content here on learning to depend on God and trust him for everything. These lessons will never get old, because I never seem to learn them very well. The teaching is couched in stories, mostly of friends of Marshall's, or of Marshall's own life or her late husband's, Peter Marshall (whom she almost always calls by his full name, "Peter Marshall," whenever she refers to him).
If my overall rating of the book is only average, it's likely because so many other writers in the years since this book have taken on these same themes in similar ways, and so it's not quite as fresh (and in some places is actually a little dated) as it certainly must have been when originally published. But the book is sincere and heartfelt, with tremendous wisdom about some of the challenges of the faithful life.