From fire, by water : my journey to the Catholic faith / Sohrab Ahmari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmari, Sohrab, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ahmari, Sohrab--Religion.

Ahmari, Sohrab.

Catholic converts--United States--Biography.

Catholic converts.

United States.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Iranian Americans--Biography.

Iranian Americans.

Christian converts.

Religion.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2019]

Summary:

Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual's finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.

Contents:

Chapter one: "You brought the imam with you"

Chapter two: Sorrows and afflictions

Chapter three: Of God and djinn

Chapter four: Resident alien

Chapter five: The road from Zarathustra

Chapter six: Divine condescension

Chapter seven: Boarderlands

Chapter eight: Three feasts

Chapter nine: Et Incarnatus est

Chapter ten: The house on the cape of olives

Chapter eleven: From fire, by water.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.

ISBN:

162164202X

9781621642022

OCLC:

1065955098