Book Reviews: At the Fountain of Elijah. By Wilfrid McGreal, O.Carm. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1999. Pp. 135. Price £8.95. ISBN 0-232-52265-0

Abstract

We can appreciate that this is a difficult position, but she doesn't seem to have thought about the possibility of living out one commitment or the other on a permanent basis.Given the high level of control which Norris appears to exercise over her text, it's surprising that she seems to miss the irony of her comment that 'spirituality workshops have become a hot consumer item'. One might be tempted to suggest that books about visits to monasteries have become similarly hot (a search for 'monastery' on amazon.co.uk will make the point admirably). Similarly ironic, given that Norris is interested in 'the full range of human experience' (p. 14), are her comments that 'all too often the call for creativity in worship simply leads to bad art' (p. 79) and that psalms in Pentecostal churches 'are likely to be pop tunes about Jesus' (p. 108). Maybe she doesn't intend