Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0006256651
ISBN 13
9780006256656
OCLC
1239788827
Category
Missionary ( 宣教研究 )
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Publication Year
1976
Publisher
Pages
153
Subject
BX2350
Abstract
Examines three movements in man's quest to live a spiritual life, including the ascent from loneliness to solitude, which relates to the experience of self; from hostility to hospitality, which deals with the spiritual life as a life for others; and from illusion to prayer, which focuses on man's relationship to God.
Description
Reaching out to our innermost self. The first movement: from loneliness to solitude : A suffocating loneliness ; A receptive solitude ; A creative response -- Reaching out to our fellow human beings. The second movement: from hostility to hospitality : Creating space for strangers ; Forms of hospitality ; Hospitality and the host -- Reaching out to our God. The third movement: from illusion to prayer : Prayer and mortality ; The prayer of the heart ; Community and prayer.
Number of Copies
1
