"The Passionate God is a great work that proceeds from profound spiritual experience and seeks concrete and effective communication. It sets forth the ongoing exchanges in living and loving that constitute the vitality, the development, and ultimately the self-effacing heroism of members of the Body of Christ."

Bernard Lonergan, S.J.

"The Passionate God is wisdom literature, the genre in which Rosemary Haughton excels. She writes here about human experiences of 'breakthrough' and 'exchange of life' and about those intense moments Christians call the Incarnation, Resurrection, the Church, the Eucharist...... Her presentation of familiar and unfamiliar stories opens them up, makes room for the new readers, and invites reader recogni- tion of the passionate God in odd places. She creates again that curious excitement-'breakthrough Haughton readers have come to expect. Mary Collins, O.S.B.

Rosemary Haughton: lecturer, novelist, and theologian. A prolific writer, Haughton is the author of more than thirty works, including Transformation of Man, Tales from Eternity, and The Catholic Thing In 1974, along with her family and friends, Haughton founded Lothlorien, in Scotland, a small, independent community devoted to working on and for the land, to education, and to the pursuit of a new social reality. Haughton's lecturing since 1967 in the United States has led her recently to embark on a new kind of ministry: 2 traveling from community to community to aid in any way she can what she calls "the new birth of the Church." This new birth Haughton com pares to the first birth of the Church. As always, Haughton is a pioneer in the social and theological work of our time.