Redeeming Love
by Francine Rivers
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Author: Francine RiversEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-09
ISBN: 1590525132
Number of pages: 479
Publisher: Multnomah Books
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Book Review: Redeeming Romance
Summary: 2 Stars
I avoided reading this book because of all the reviews. Romantics abound and these tend to be the sort that read Redeeming Love. No one would argure that Rivers can write. No one can argue that she creates real characters and great description of setting. However, I do take issue with her on two points: 1. She presents a version of Biblical truth though not the truth. 2. She continues to write Harliquin feel in Christian novels. Much of the sexual content in this book could have been left out without diminshing quality or message. Yet, Rivers stoops to the notion that sex sells and leaves it in. I do not know how to tell her that Gomer's story has absolutely nothing to do with sex. A fact Rivers seems oblivious to.
The story of Gomer and Hosea is about the depth of God's love, about His great heart, about the fact that Biblical love is deeper and of a different sort than sexual love. Rivers sullies the message presented in God's word by giving us this cheap immitation. I am disappointed in the book as a whole. She has not done any great service to the original intent of the message by presenting love as some overpowering emotional bond when agape has nothing to do with emotion.
If you are looking for qualiy writing and an entertaining story, read it. If you're looking for an accurate account of the Gomer story, pass.
Summary of Redeeming Love
Can God's Love Save Anyone?Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel's life to draw her into the Savior's redeeming love. This remarkable novel has sold over a million copies and is among the top twenty on the ECPA fiction bestsellers list for four years running. A six-part study guide, suitable for individual use or group discussion, is included in this bestselling novel.
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California's gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep.
Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.
Then she meets Michael Hosea.
A man who seeks his Father's heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God's call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel's every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband's pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does.the One who will never let her go.
A powerful retelling of the book of Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God's unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.
Story Behind the Book
"Writing Redeeming Love was a form of worship for me. Through it, I was able to thank God for loving me even when I was defiant, rebellious, contemptuous of what I thought being a Christian meant, and afraid to give my heart away. I had wanted to be my own god and have control of my life the way Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Now I know to be loved by Christ is the ultimate joy and fulfillment. Everything in Redeeming Love was a gift from the Lord: plot, characters, theme. None of it is mine to claim."
In this splendid retelling of the biblical story of Hosea, bestselling author Francine Rivers pens a heartbreaking romance between a prostitute and the upright and kind farmer who marries her; the story also functions as a reminder of God's unconditional love for his people. Redeeming Love opens with the Gold Rush of 1850 and its rough-and-tumble atmosphere of greed and desire. Angel, who was sold into prostitution as a child, has learned to distrust all men, who see her only as a way to satisfy their lust. When the virtuous and spiritual-minded Michael Hosea is told by God to marry this "soiled dove," he obeys, despite his misgivings. As Angel learns to love him, she begins to hope again but is soon overwhelmed by fear and returns to her old life. Rivers shines in her ability to weave together spiritual themes and sexual tension in a well-told story, a talent that has propelled her into the spotlight as one of the most popular novelists in the genre of Christian fiction. This is one of her best. --Cindy Crosby
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