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Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld
of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and
influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The
Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history
of the Catholic Worker movement, including the cross-pollination
between American and Quebecois Catholicism and discourse about
Christian antimodernism and radicalism. The considerable
perseverance in the heroic Christian maximalism that became the
hallmark of the Catholic Worker’s personalism owes a great debt
to the influence of Lacouturisme, largely under the stewardship of
John Hugo, along with Peter Maurin and myriad other critical
interventions in Day’s spiritual development. Day made the
retreat regularly for some thirty-five years and promoted it
vigorously both in person and publicly in the pages of The Catholic
Worker. Exploring the influence of the controversial North American
revivalist movement on the spiritual formation of Dorothy Day,
author Jack Lee Downey investigates the extremist intersection
between Roman Catholic contemplative tradition and modern political
radicalism. Well grounded in an abundance of lesser-known primary
sources, including unpublished letters, retreat notes, privately
published and long-out-of-print archival material, and the
French-language papers of Fr. Lacouture, The Bread of the Strong
opens up an entirely new arena of scholarship on the transnational
lineages of American Catholic social justice activism. Downey also
reveals riveting new insights into the movement’s founder and
namesake, Quebecois Jesuit Onesime Lacouture. Downey also frames a
more reciprocal depiction of Day and Hugo’s relationship and
influence, including the importance of Day’s evangelical pacifism
on Hugo, particularly in shaping his understanding of conscientious
objection and Christian antiwar work, and how Hugo’s ascetical
theology animated Day’s interior life and spiritually sustained
her apostolate. A fascinating investigation into the retreat
movement Day loved so dearly, and which she claimed was integral to
her spiritual formation, The Bread of the Strong explores the
relationship between contemplative theology, asceticism, and
radical activism. More than a study of Lacouture, Hugo, and Day,
this fresh look at Dorothy Day and the complexities and challenges
of her spiritual and social expression presents an outward
exploration of the early- to mid–twentieth century dilemmas
facing second- and third-generation American Catholics.
Are you depressed? Do you feel hopeless? Do you feel distant
from God?
There are many Christians who suffer from depression, but many
feel alone in their struggle with it. There is still much stigma
attached to the illness of depression, but this stigma is two-fold
for Christians. They have stigma attached to them not only from
society as a whole, but also in the place where they are supposed
to find support and understanding-the church.
Those suffering from depression may see the cause of their
depression attributed to being weak, not being a good Christian,
not having enough faith, or having some hidden sin. If a Christian
is receiving care through a community agency that provides
counseling, psychiatric services, or case management services,
there is a tendency to find limited support for their Christian
views or encouragement from the Bible.
In this guide, author Derrin Drake relies on his twelve years of
work experience in the mental health field as well as the Bible to
provide hope, encouragement, stability, and direction through the
illness of depression. Regardless of where a person is at in
dealing with the illness of depression, "Hope Is Not Lost: Staying
Connected with God in the Midst of Depression" can help you once
again feel connected to God, find encouragement, find strength, and
find hope for the journey.
"Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants captures the
fascinating diversity of faith-based resistance around U.S.
immigration issues. While much attention is given to the
destructive aspects of fundamentalism, this book reveals that other
religious groups are working constructively and tenaciously for the
rights of those who are marginalized and mistreated."-Sharon
Erickson Nepstad, author of Convictions of the Soul: Religion,
Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement
"This timely volume is the first social science analysis to focus
on the influence of religion on social justice issues for
immigrants."-Helen Rose Ebaugh, coauthor of Religion and the New
Immigrants Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and
domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century
ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished.
Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of
newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it is usually
stories about the Christian Right or conservative Islam that grab
headlines, there are many religious activists of other political
persuasions that are working quietly for social justice. This book
examines how religious immigrants and religious activists are
working for equitable treatment for immigrants in the United
States. The essays in this book analyze the different ways in which
organized religion provides immigrants with an arena for
mobilization, civic participation, and solidarity. Contributors
explore topics including how non-Western religious groups such as
the Vietnamese Caodai are striving for community recognition and
addressing problems such as racism, economic issues, and the
politics of diaspora; how interfaith groups organize religious
people into immigrant civil rights activists at the U.S.-Mexican
border; and how Catholic groups advocate governmental legislation
and policies on behalf of refugees. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a
professor in the department of sociology at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles.
While Robert Putnam'sBowling Alone(2000) highlighted the notion of
volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in
generating social capital - an ironic omission since religion
constitutes the most common form of voluntary association in
America today. Featuring essays by prominent social scientists,
this is the first book-length systematic examination of the
relationship between religion and social capital and what effects
religious social capital has on democratic life in the United
States.
The Road of the Heart’s Desire focuses on the emergence of the
human race and the individual from an undifferentiated oneness and
the return of the individual to the human community and to
reflective and differentiated oneness with God. Dunne expresses
this reunion through music and language. “Thinking of the human
essence, we can discern in story and song a double emergence and
separation, that of the human race and that of the individual,”
he writes. Dunne traces four cycles of story and song: the unity of
all things, an emergence and separation of the human race, the
emergence of the individual, and finally a reunion of humanity with
“all in all.” The “road of the heart’s desire” is the
path each person takes toward this reunion.
How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of
psychology? This question has been of keen interest (and sometimes
concern) to Christians because of the importance we place on a
correct understanding of human nature. Psychology can sometimes
seem disconnected from, if not antithetical to, Christian
perspectives on life. How are we to understand our Christian
beliefs about persons in relation to secular psychological beliefs?
This revised edition of a widely appreciated Spectrum volume now
presents five models for understanding the relationship between
psychology and Christianity. All the essays and responses have been
reworked and updated with some new contributors including the
addition of a new perspective, the transformative view from John
Coe and Todd Hall (Biola University). Also found here is David
Powlison (Westminster Theological Seminary) who offers the biblical
counseling model. The levels-of-explanation model is advanced by
David G. Myers (Hope College), while Stanton L. Jones (Wheaton
College) offers an entirely new chapter presenting the integration
model. The Christian psychology model is put forth by Robert C.
Roberts (Baylor University) now joined by Paul J. Watson
(University of Tennesee, Chattanooga). Each of the contributors
responds to the other essayists, noting points of agreement as well
as problems they see. Eric L. Johnson provides a revised
introduction that describes the history of Christians and
psychology, as well as a conclusion that considers what might unite
the five views and how a reader might evaluate the relative
strengths and weaknesses of each view. Psychology and Christianity:
Five Views has become a standard introductory textbook for students
and professors of Christian psychology. This revision promises to
keep it so. Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on
contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the
opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in
this dynamic publishing format.
Developed for helping professionals, the third edition of
Counseling Theory and Practice explains what it means to be an
effective helper, discusses foundations of classic counseling and
psychotherapy theories, and provides an overview of emerging
theories. Chapter 1 examines the efficacy of counseling and
therapy, ethical concerns of counseling practice and provides
students the opportunity to examine their view of human nature and
how it aligns with the theories in the text. The rest of the book
examines classic and emerging theories. Section 1 explores
psychodynamic approaches, including psychoanalysis, Jungian
therapy, and Adlerian therapy. Section 2 is devoted to
existential-humanistic approaches such as existential therapy,
Gestalt therapy, and person-centered counseling, while Section 3
discusses cognitive-behavioral approaches, including cognitive
behavior therapy (CBT), rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT),
and reality therapy (RT). Section 4 describes post-modern therapies
including narrative therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, and
relational cultural therapy, a form of feminist therapy. New to
this edition is the last section on the emerging theories of
acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior
therapy (DBT), and neurocounseling. In this edition, Ed Neukrug is
joined by Danica Hays, who uses her expertise on efficacy, cultural
diversity, and gender issues to enhance each chapter. In addition
to the new chapters on emerging theories, the text uses inclusive
language and fully updated references, adds new vignettes, and
highlights existing videos and websites created by Dr. Neukrug.
This book is accompanied by an expanded Cognella Active Learning
component for students comprised of videos, reflection exercises,
PowerPoint slideshows, flashcards, and quizzes in a digital
environment. This is an ideal text for both pre-service
professionals and those already in the field. Watch Ed Neukrug
discuss what makes the third edition of Counseling Theory and
Practice an ideal resource for classroom use here.
Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo demonstrate the urgent need,
highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to position the long history
and practice of chaplaincy within the rapidly changing landscape of
American religion and spirituality. This book provides a
much-needed road map for training and renewing chaplains across a
professional continuum that spans major sectors of American
society, including hospitals, prisons, universities, the military,
and nursing homes. Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts
and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at
Brandeis University, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the
Twenty-First Century identifies three central
competencies-individual, organizational, and meaning-making-that
all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building
those skills. The book, which features profiles of working
chaplains, positions intersectional issues of religious diversity,
race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other markers of identity
as central to the future of chaplaincy as a profession.
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