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Today's world cries out for lives of integrity, for Christian models that integrate "the inward life of devotion and the outward life of the activist for justice and peace." We can find no better example than eighteenth-century Quaker, John Woolman. Birkel writes of the profound impact Woolman has had on his own life. He invites readers to become acquainted with the spiritual disciplines and resources that nurtered Woolman's empathy with the stranger and empowered him to engage the world as a witness on behalf of the disenfranchised. Includes a group discussion guide.
Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) was one of those remarkable teachers, like
Meister Eckhart, who pushed language to its limits to describe an
experience that happens above and beyond rational thought. He was a
Bohemian shoemaker who, in response to the overwhelming visionary
experiences he began to undergo as a teenager, wrote a series of
theosophical treatises that explored the relationship between the
One and the many, existence and nonexistence, the inner process of
divine emanation toward self-consciousness, the relationship of
good and evil, and the personal and cosmic urge toward
reintegration. Some hear in him resonances with alchemy, kabbalah,
and Platonism. His influence is seen in the Quakers, the German
Romantics, Pietism, various American utopian experiments, and in
the European mystics who came after him. The great scholar of
mysticism Evelyn Underhill called him "one of the most astonishing
cases in history of a natural genius for the transcendent."
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