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Desire for God and the Things of God - The Relationships Between Christian Spirituality and Morality (Paperback)
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Desire for God and the Things of God - The Relationships Between Christian Spirituality and Morality (Paperback)
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Synopsis: For many Christians, spirituality and ethics are in
separate mental and experiential compartments. Spirituality may be
understood as an inner experience, while ethics is focused on
decisions or positions on issues. Both of these views reduce
spirituality and morality in Christian faith and practice, and
ignore the centrality of desire for God and the things of God as
key focal points for spiritual and moral formation. These aspects
of Christian formation must be located in their scriptural and
theological contexts in order to understand more fully what God
desires for human life. This focus on desire provides content and
context to Christian spirituality and morality. We are drawn
outward to focus on God and the good of others while we learn to
embody virtues, such as compassion, courage, self-control,
gratitude, humility, and hope. Practices are crucial ways by which
we learn to incarnate our ultimate desire of love for God and for
what God desires in the pursuit of justice and goodness for all
creation. In so doing, practices enable us to more fully integrate
spiritual and moral growth in the processes of our desire for God
and the things of God. Endorsement: "This is a welcome and overdue
proposal for a moral Christian spirituality and a
spiritually-rooted and energized Christian social engagement. With
winsome wisdom, the author illuminates the reciprocating links
between authentic experience of God and its embodiment (and further
development) in active moral life. Properly ordered desire, she
reveals, is the glue that re-bonds these too-often-divorced
dimensions back together in a Christ-like wholeness. Protestants
especially need this book " --Glen G. Scorgie Professor of Theology
and Ethics Bethel University "In this thoroughly documented new
book, Wyndy Corbin Reuschling argues that the reordering of
desires, for which Christian discipleship aims, depends upon
overcoming a huge gap commonly thought to separate private
spirituality from social ethics. Through close reading of three
pairs of historical Christian practices, Corbin Reuschling
winsomely shows that in Christian thought, spirituality and
morality have always been two sides of one coin. What this coin
buys for the reader is a highly practical and hope-filled account
of both a Christian spiritual formation that is communally
incarnated and a Christian social ethics that actually deepens
one's personal relationship with God." --Brad J. Kallenberg
Professor of Theology University of Dayton "In a post-Christian
society, secularization has created a decisive separation between
spirituality and Christian virtues and has reinforced
individualistic expressions of faith that lead people 'to go
through the motions' without transformation. Desire for God and the
Things of God provides an excellent response to these and other
fragmented situations by offering practical alternatives grounded
in community- and character-forming practices that reflect an
integral expression of the Christian faith and by challenging us to
reconsider the implications of Christian living and spirituality."
--Hugo Magallanes Associate Professor of Christianity and Cultures
Perkins School of Theology Author Biography: Wyndy Corbin
Reuschling is Professor of Ethics and Theology at Ashland
Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. She is author of Reviving
Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of
Morality (2008) and coauthor of Becoming Whole and Holy: An
Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation (2010).
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