RaveThe Guardian (UK)n luminous prose she challenges a modern reader to understand just how unusual a book Genesis is, pregnant with meaning that stretches to our own day ... Robinson deftly guides the reader through Genesis’s account ... Robinson has masterfully traced that sense of wonder back to its ancient, remarkable source.
Pope Francis and Austin Ivereigh
PositiveThe Guardian (UK)Not long into these reflections on the lessons of a traumatic year, Pope Francis offers a line from his favourite poet, Friedrich Hölderlin: \'Where the danger is, grows the saving power.\' At moments of personal trial throughout his life, Francis writes, these words have helped him navigate the crisis. Though moments of reckoning will strip us bare, absolute vulnerability leaves us open to moments of grace and revelation. Short enough to read in a single sitting, Let Us Dream is written in the spirit of that insight and throws down a spiritual gauntlet to the reader ... There is a spiritual urgency and warmth to Let Us Dream that will appeal to lay readers as well as the faithful ... this book should be read as a work of prophecy and hope rather than analysis.
John Barton
RaveThe Guardian (UK)Barton brings the Good Book splendidly back to life. Stripping away centuries of theological interpretation, he recovers the biblical text as a \'repository of writings\'—narratives, aphorisms, poems and letters—that both Christianity and Judaism have used, twisted and embellished for their own purposes. It is an exhilarating achievement, freeing a vast, heterogeneous body of work from the dead hand of religious authorities who had turned it into \'a paper dictator\' ... Fundamentalists will not be queuing up to up to buy A History of the Bible: the Book and its Faiths. But for believers of a more open disposition, and non-believing lovers of great literature, reading it will be a revelation and a delight.
