A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment

Jonah is the only ancient prophet with whom Jesus identifies in the Gospels. But when we turn to read the book of Jonah itself, we discover that this so-called book is only two pages longand that Jonahs prophesying is limited to one short sentence. And yet, around this small book, as if it were around Jonahs own troubled ship, high waves of controversy and mystery have swirled for centuries. In A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment, Fr. Paul Murray strives to uncover the great lesson of this story. Following Fr. Murrays exploration is a 2003 lectio divina on Jonah by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzingerpublished here in English for the first time.