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Jon Darrow, an Anglican priest and abbot with psychic abilities, has a vision that he interprets as God's instruction to leave his religious order. "In this witty, wise novel, the question 'Does God exist?' is always understood and, true to life, ambiguously answered," wrote PW.
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"Fascinating...convincing...believable."
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The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him into the labyrinth of his past to pluck out the buried truth beneath the deceptions he has been living through. --Ce texte provient de la Mass Market Paperback �dition.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 the best of thr lot, D�c 4 2001

Par	mermaid (United Kingdon) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Glamorous Powers (Mass Market Paperback)

The second in the series of Starbridge books - Glamorous Powers - is the one I liked the best. IN this book we get to know Jon Darrow, who figured in the first volume Glittering Images as Charles Ashworth's spiritual director, more intimately. Whereas in Glamorous powers, seen through Charles Ashworth's eyes, he was the perfect super priest who knew everything, here we actually get under Jon's skin and see him as he sees himself: as a flawed, confused man with many problems, in particular concerning his relationship with women. Jon had spent several years in a monastery as a monk, but now, in his sixties, he receives a calling from God to leave the monastery and fulfil a mission in the world - but he doesn't know what. Nor is he certain if that mission includes marriage.
For anyone with an interest in Gnosticism and mysticism, this is a particularly interesting book - but such an interest is definitely not a pre-condition for reading and enjoying it! I'm not the only Howatch reader to have this as their favourite in the series. (...)

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5.0�toiles sur 5 The church from the inside out, Ao� 26 2001

Par	Mark A. Tusken "saintmarker" (Geneva, IL USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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Susan Howatch may be a woman with training in the law, but she gets inside the mindset of male priests in the Anglican Church (Episcopal Church in the U.S.) better than anyone else. This is a mystery, a suspense novel, a love story and a deeply psychological look at spiritual direction all rolled into one. The book begins with a man having a vision of a small country chantry (chapel). Outside the chapel is a unique suitcase. Is this god telling him to pack his bags and leave the monastary he has known for so many years? After intense spiritual direction, that I found riveting, he decides to leave. He goes on holiday, and while walking down the hall of the inn he is at, he see the suitcase of his vision! He has to meet the owner of the valise. She turns out to be a beautiful woman (much younger than himself). Will love ensue? What is god's will? This book will encourage you to consider the power of prayer and god's direction for your life. It will call you to wrestle with the possibility of healing and evil. This book began my love affair with each of the books in the "Starbridge" series. It could be the start of something special for you, too.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Very Good But A Little Less So Than Book #1, D�c 22 2000

Par	carol irvin "c.k. irvin" (United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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With the 2nd book in Howatch's Anglican trilogy, we explore the story of the monk who was the therapist in book #1. He is also 60 years old, a psychic and a vision from God sends him back into the world and out of the monastery. There is a great deal of counselling and angst in this novel as well. There isn't enough different about this novel to make it the same fascinating read as book #1 though. I've already bought book #3 and I hope we follow a different pattern with that one. He does find a new woman as part of his vision from God as her bag and her estate were specifically seen in it. The Anglicans must spend more time in analysis than Freud himself ever dreamed possible!

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5.0�toiles sur 5 One of the best in the Starbridge series
One only gets small hints in 'Glittering Images' that there is a lot more to Jon Darrow than meets the eye, 'Glamourous Powers' is his story. Read more

Publi� le Ao� 5 2000 par Paul Burgin

5.0�toiles sur 5 Entertaining, Thought Provoking, Inspiring, and Enlightening
When Susan Howatch's Church of England Series was recommended to me, the first book to fall into my hands was Glamorous Powers. Read more

Publi� le Sep 16 1999

5.0�toiles sur 5 Powerful psycological and spiritual work
Having read all six books in Ms. Howatch's Church of England Series, I find deciding which is best difficult. Read more

Publi� le Oct. 9 1998

5.0�toiles sur 5 Blends psychology and spirituality in a captivating manner.
"Glamorous Powers" is the second of the "Church of England" Series and centers around the character of Jon Darrow whom, if you have been reading the six books... Read more

Publi� le Ao� 2 1997