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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian religious experience
A psyhological and spiritual exploration of the positive potential
hidden in our painful emotions. Its key conviction: our bad
feelings can be good news, alerting us to endangered values,
alarming us to hopes under siege, and arming us for the tough tasks
of change.
Filled with lively examples, the Whiteheads demonstrate how
negative emotions can lead to personal growth, spiritual
development, and social transformation. Family wounds, cultural
temptations, and religious malpractice make it difficult for us to
plumb the meaning of our passions. Breaking through these obstacles
is part of spirituality's healing task.
The perfect gift for adoptive parents in the style of the
best-selling Meditations for the New Mother.
Using her family experiences, Vernell Klassen Miller weaves many
threads into the fabric of these meditations on adoption. She
includes theories about bonding to infants and older children, the
stages in relinquishment and adoption, how "entitlement" happens,
and the advantages of the adoption.
In his new book, the author likens True Self to a diamond, buried
deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives and
needing to be searched for, uncovered, and separated from all the
debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like
Jesus, be resurrected, and that process involves not resuscitation
but transformation.
Denise Inge introduces a selection from Thomas Traherne's writing
in this, the third volume in this series on seventeenth century
spiritual writers. This volume will contain some biographical
detail and historical context, the story of the discovery of his
work as well as a discussion of its literary and spiritual power.
The main body of the anthology will cover both well known works
such as a selection from the Centuries and also excerpts from newer
discoveries, including a recent find from Lambeth Palace Library.
Thomas Traherne 1636?-1674 was schooled at Brasenose College,
Oxford, was ordainded and served in the village of Credenhill,
Herefordshire.
This joint biography illuminates the lives of Francis and Clare and
their way of life. It shows how they were bound together by
devotion to God as well as the violent objections of their families
to religious life. It explores a variety of issues they faced,
including the treatment of lepers in medieval society, corruption
in the church, and attitudes toward the created world. You will
learn how Clare's spirituality influenced that of other prominent
women, how Francis lost control of his own movement, and why
Francis's body was secretly buried after his death.
Howard Thurman (1900-1981), minister, philosopher, civil rights
activist, has been called "one of the greatest spiritual resources
of this nation." His encounters with Gandhi in India helped instill
his commitment to nonviolence. His identification of Jesus as one
of the disinherited helped shape the thinking of Martin Luther
King, Jr. His embrace of wisdom from other religious traditions
emboldened interfaith cooperation and understanding.
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