Margaret Guenther shares with the reader a loving and evocative meditation on the experience of spiritual direction from the perspective of a wise and hospitable spiritual director, who is also a woman, wife, mother, teacher, and priest.

Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction

Guenther, Margaret

History

Cowley Pubns

<p>Writing for a wide popular audience, philosopher Diogenes Allenexamines the problem of human suffering and helps us to discover"traces of God" in the world, even as we suffer from physicalpain and loss, natural disaster, and human evil.Written for beginners in the spiritual life, Traces of God describeshow we can prepare ourselves for the inevitable sufferings of life.Allen explores the human pilgrimage through adversity and takesa close look at Simone Weil's studies of affliction.</p>

The Traces of God in a Frequently Hostile World

Allen, Diogenes

F.D. Maurice: A Study

McClain, Frank

Short pieces on issues about which many Christians are simply uncertain. Furlong writes on such traditional Christian concepts as heaven, hell, sacraments, seven deadly sins, and also reflects on difficult contemporary topics such as abortion and homosexuality.

Christian Uncertainties

FURLONG, MONICA

The three outsiders are Blaise Pascal, Soren Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil. They were outsiders because they distanced themselves from the institutional church and also the societies around them in their respective eras. They believed that the church failed to take seriously the profound and disturbing relationship with God which is in Jesus Christ. From their position "outside they questioned the assumptions, practices, and understandings of their church and secular contemporaries. Each produced profoundly original but difficult writings (often in uncompleted fragments), which Professor Allen has organized and interpreted for anyone who asks the question, "How am I to be a Christian?

Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil

Religion & Spirituality

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Why Doctrines?

Hefling, Charles

An urgently needed message to today's reader, this book stresses the dangers of postponing time for prayer and meditation in lieu of following our jammed daily agendas. Now is the time we need to take for contemplation and reflection, and Furlong helps the reader recognize this reality.

Contemplating Now

Role of pastoral ministry in worldwide political issues

World Come of Age

Selby, Peter

A republishing of John Booty's classic, this spare yet profound book explores T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," emphasizing the spiritual nature of the poems as a way to gain a deeper understanding of the great symbolism, mystery, and beauty inherent. Armed with a rare spiritual depth and vast knowledge, Booty finds just the right keys to unlock the mysteries of Eliot's timeless words. An incomparable poet, matched by an incomparable contemplative.

Meditating on Four Quartets

Booty, John E.

<p>Spiritual Direction Paperback - March, 1984</p>

Spiritual Direction

Thornton, Martin

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