We Have Seen the Lord (Book Review)
We Have Seen the Lord , Carlos G. Valles S.J., Gujrat Sahitya Prakash, 1999, pp. x+159, Rs. 60. The author is a Spanish missionary in India . He taught mathematics at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad for many years. He writes in English and Spanish, bringing to the spiritual and psychological fields his western roots and eastern branches. He gives courses on Oriental spirituality in India and abroad. This book opens our dulled eyes to the fact that God is not a distant, abstract theory but a proximate, live presence, surrounding us and waiting for us to open ourselves to Him. We have reduced God to an insipid theory that has little or no effect on us. People, especially the young, are looking for God but are disillusioned by the God presented to them by those who call themselves religious. God is not abstract, it is we who have made him appear so. The traditional doctrine, we believe in, is fully true in itself, but of not much use unless we make it truly our own in fee