Navigating the Interior Life

Navigating the Interior Life
Author: Dan Burke
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781644130896

Most of us have questions about spiritual direction. What is it? What if I cant find a spiritual director? These questions and more are well answered in Dan Burkes book. The Lord is clearly calling all Catholics into a deeper union with him. This book, in a style which is both inspiring and practical, provides some of the Churchs most important wisdom about how to respond to this call.

The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions
Author: Carl G. Vaught
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0791486532

This detailed discussion of Augustine's journey toward God, as it is described in the first six books of the Confessions, begins with infancy, moves through childhood and adolescence, and culminates in youthful maturity. In the first stage, Augustine deals with the problems of original innocence and sin; in the second, he addresses a pear-stealing episode that recapitulates the theft of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and confronts the problem of sexuality with which he wrestles until his conversion; and in the third, he turns toward philosophy, only to be captivated successively by dualism, skepticism, and Catholicism. Augustine's journey exhibits temporal, spatial, and eternal dimensions and combines his head and his heart in equal proportions. Vaught shows that the Confessions should be interpreted as an attempt to address the person as a whole rather than through our intellectual or volitional dimensions exclusively. The passion with which Augustine describes the end of his journey is reflected best in a sentence found in the opening chapter of the text—"You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." Interpreting this statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition.

A Woman's Journey to God

A Woman's Journey to God
Author: Joan Borysenko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781573228350

Studies how women have related to God in different cultures and religions.

Grace

Grace
Author: Michael Casey
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640601376

Benedictine monastic spirituality has emerged as an antidote to the spiritual and cultural challenges facing people of faith today. In this book, the author focuses specifically on GRACE, and the benevolence of God as it expresses itself in many different ways along our spiritual journey. What is a person likely to experience when beginning to give up him or herself conscientiously to the spiritual journey? In this beautiful guide, gradually, we come to realize that everything that happens in our lives is somehow the gift of our loving Father. Every journey is ultimately individual. As Casey explains, what you hear within your own spirit is more significant than what he can say. But his aim is to help you listen to the voice of God in your heart.

40-Day Journey to the Heart of God

40-Day Journey to the Heart of God
Author: Tammy M. Price
Publisher: Tammy M. Price
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781933204161

Join inspiring author Tammy M. Price on a faith-filled, powerful journey to the heart of God s holiness. The exciting 40-day adventure guides you learn how to pray, how to live a life of prayer and holiness, and to find and fulfill your divine destiny. Find over 1000 scriptures to teach you in how to let the Holy Spirit cleanse your heart, fill and direct you."

God With Us - A Journey Home (Read Aloud Edition)

God With Us - A Journey Home (Read Aloud Edition)
Author: Jeremy Pierre
Publisher: Shepherd Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1633421805

Author Jeremy Pierre and illustrator Cassandra Clark want to awaken children to a brave journey―a journey home. This beautifully illustrated tale traces the theme of God’s presence through the storyline of Scripture. People were created to be with God but lost their nearness to him at the fall. So God sent his Son Jesus Christ to cross that distance, making a way for people to follow him on their own journey home. This book seeks to connect a child’s experience of a hurting world with the larger story of God’s redemption of all things, inspiring them to courage and to joy for their journey. Immersive illustrations and poetic wordplay throughout will keep your child returning to the pages of this book. God With Us presents your children with: One Panoramic Theme: Your children will see in panoramic display one grand theme at the heart of Scripture’s story, from Genesis to Revelation: the presence of God. Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is presented to your children as the fulfillment of everything they were made to be. Realism About Life: This is an honest storybook about a fallen world, full of excitement and joy as well as sadness and fear. Luxurious Visuals: The full-color illustrations are intentionally arranged to move between large sweeping landscapes and small arresting moments, evoking in children a sense of awe at the grand scale of life, even in the daily moments. An Experience for the Eyes, Ears, and Heart: Art―in visual, audible, and verbal form―makes beautiful the things that God calls beautiful. This book will capture your children’s imagination. This dramatized, Read-Aloud Edition brings each chapter to life with narration, music, sound effects, and visual cues for children to enjoy.

A Woman's Journey to the Heart of God

A Woman's Journey to the Heart of God
Author: Cynthia Heald
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780785268208

Bestselling Bible studies author and teacher Cynthia Heald draws upon the wisdom of classic devotional writers such as Tozer, Chambers, and Spurgeon in the trade paper edition of this book.

So Far from God

So Far from God
Author: Patrick Marnham
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: