<p>In A Passion for God, J. Matthew Ashley edits and translates the most important of Metz's recent essays previously unavailable in English. This diverse collection reflects on such issues as the crucial place of memory in Christian faith and in society as a whole, the role of religious in the Church, the meaning of the mystical virtue of poverty of spirit and the relationship between Christianity and politics in modernity.</p>

A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

J. Matthew Ashley

Johann-Baptist Metz

Christian Books & Bibles

Paulist Press

This book explores the possibility of looking at the Christian spiritual life as a journey in which the way one remembers is gradually transformed, culminating in a union of memories with Gods memory. It does so partly in response to the need to remember correctly, both as individuals and as a society, both joyful events worthy of celebration, and atrocities that require lamentation and repentance. The book suggests that mapping such an anamnestic mysticism draws on key themes on memory from the pre-modern tradition, provides a helpful perspective on the Ignatian ideal of contemplation in action, and, finally, can help us remember Christian martyrs such as Oscar Romero.

Take Lord and Receive All My Memory. Toward an Anamnestic Mysticism (The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology 2015)

Marquette Univ Pr

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