Resurrection Love-Life

Dent, Barbara

Religion & Spirituality

Paulist Pr

My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the Night of Faith [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1988] Barbara Dent

Barbara Dent's audience is those fully committed Christians "who have advanced far enough in love of God to enter the Night of Faith and feel the need of explanation, guidance and reassurance." MY ONLY FRIEND IS DARKNESS is articulate and insightful. Although dealing with a difficult subject, the author writes clearly and readably, making excellent use of parables and images to clarify those things which defy straightforward explanation. Dent guides her readers through the deep purifications endured by the spirit as it is cleansed by God of its sinful inclinations. She examines the variety and intensity of sufferings, upheavals, turmoils, temptations, setbacks and workings of grace upon the deepest levels of our being, comparing this experience to depth psychotherapy in the way it examines the hidden levels of one's being and works to heal old wounds. Drawing heavily on the writings of John of the Cross and her own deep personal experience of the dark night of the soul, she has produced a powerful book that makes a significant contribution to spiritual literature.

My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the Night of Faith

Ave Maria Pr

The Gifts of Lay Ministry

Ave Maria Press

This wise and widely-acclaimed book is written for those "who have advanced far enough in love to God to enter the Night of Faith and feel the need of explanation, guidance and reassurance." Drawing upon Scripture, classic spiritual authors-especially St. John of the Cross-and her own deep personal experience, author Barbara Dent examines the deep puifications we undergo as God cleanses us of sinful inclinations and tansforms us in love. Using poetry and prose, image and parable, she guides us through the sufferings, temptations, upheavals and workings of grace at the deepest levels of our being, as we journey through the darkness of faith to new life in Christ. "This book is concerned with what I learned experientially and fom reading the works of various fellow travellers, especially John of the Cross, during the two periods when the grain of wheat fell into the ground and died. Then my only friend was darkness-the darkness of faith that would not give up affirming what it believed-yet in that darkness wonders of grace happened." Barbara Dent, My Only Friend is Darkness Barbara Dent is a retired English teacher in New Zealand and the mother of three. A Secular Carmelite, she has published numerous aticles and books throughout the English-speaking world, and now spends much of the time in "prayer and study, writing, and giving spiritual and psychological guidance to those who turn to me for it."

My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the Night of Faith With St. John of the Cross

Ics Pubns

This book is the sequel to 'My Only Friend is Darkness'. This new offering of Barbara Dent's writings brings together articles already published elsewhere and forty-one previously unpublished poems. The New Zealand author's intensely personal, experiential style gives 'flesh and bones' to the notion of the 'dark night of the soul' in this new book. Barbara Dent goes beyond merely generic expositions of that key concept of Carmelite spirituality to craft her own vivid witness, one that speaks always in tones of our times. This she does as a mother, writer, poustinik, and Carmelite secular order member. As she identifies the major events of her adult life in biographical pieces, both by prose and in poetry, she reveals how adept a guide she is to managing the darkness of physical suffering and spiritual progress. The reader will appreciate all the attention she pays, in line with modern renewal movements, to the resurrection as an integral part of spiritual development.

The Marriage of All and Nothing: Selected Writings of Barbara Dent

Worship & Devotion

ICS-Publications

This wise and widely-acclaimed book is written for those "who have advanced far enough in love to God to enter the Night of Faith and feel the need of explanation, guidance and reassurance." Drawing upon Scripture, classic spiritual authors-especially St. John of the Cross-and her own deep personal experience, author Barbara Dent examines the deep puifications we undergo as God cleanses us of sinful inclinations and tansforms us in love. Using poetry and prose, image and parable, she guides us through the sufferings, temptations, upheavals and workings of grace at the deepest levels of our being, as we journey through the darkness of faith to new life in Christ. "This book is concerned with what I learned experientially and fom reading the works of various fellow travellers, especially John of the Cross, during the two periods when the grain of wheat fell into the ground and died. Then my only friend was darkness-the darkness of faith that would not give up affirming what it believed-yet in that darkness wonders of grace happened." Barbara Dent, My Only Friend is Darkness Barbara Dent is a retired English teacher in New Zealand and the mother of three. A Secular Carmelite, she has published numerous aticles and books throughout the English-speaking world, and now spends much of the time in "prayer and study, writing, and giving spiritual and psychological guidance to those who turn to me for it."

My Only Friend Is Darkness: Living the Night of Faith with St. John of the Cross

Christian Books & Bibles

Tuscany Press, LLC.

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