Spiritual classics : selected readings for individuals and groups on the twelve spiritual disciplines / edited by Richard J. Foster & Emilie Griffin.
2000
248.4 S759 2000
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Title
Spiritual classics : selected readings for individuals and groups on the twelve spiritual disciplines / edited by Richard J. Foster & Emilie Griffin.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060628723 (pbk.)
Imprint
San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, ©2000.
Language
English
Description
xv, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
248.4 S759 2000
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42736436
Note
"A Renovaré resource for spiritual renewal."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Meditation
2. Prayer
3. Fasting
4. Study
5 Simplicity
6. Solitude
7. Submission
8. Service
9. Confession
10. Worship
11. Guidance
12. Celebration.
Introduction
Meditation: A godly meditation / Thomas More. Meditation ; How to meditate ; Contemplation : the prayer of loving attention ; How to contemplate / Joyce Huggett. The gift of contemplation / Thomas Merton. The soul describes the seven stages / Marguerite Porete
Prayer: Is praying difficult? ; Superabundance of the heart / André Louf. Experiments in prayer / Agnes Sanford. Starting to pray ; How and why short prayer pierces heaven / Author of The cloud of unknowning. Concerning the Our Father / Simone Weil
Fasting: A fasting on criticalness / Catherine Marshall. Fasting, a source of trial / John Henry Newman. Cleansing of the heart / Augustine of Hippo. Prayer and fasting, public or private? / William Law
Study: The cause of spiritual stupidity / George MacDonald. The secret of leadership / Lilias Trotter. Three New Testament serendipities / J.B. Phillips. Is there not a shorter way? / Phoebe Palmer
Simplicity: The blessedness of possessing nothing / A.W. Tozer. Do not be anxious about your life / Martin Luther. The Lord opened unto me / George Fox. All for nothing, nothing for all / Clare of Assisi
Solitude: The silent beach, the bowl of stars / Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Solitude and silence / Thomas à Kempis. The meaning of silence / John Main. The power of listening, the power of silence / Paul Tournier
Submission: In my great task-master's eye / John Milton. The shepherd in search of lost obedience / Thomas R. Kelly. Wait and wait again / Richard of St. Victor. God's instrument / Alan Paton
Service: Give all for all / Hadewijch of Antwerp. When our work becomes a spiritual work working in the world / Meister Eckhart. Hospitality to the poor / Dorothy Day. God of my daily routine / Karl Rahner
Confession: Letter to Christian laypeople / Hildegard of Bingen. Sinfulness in society / Dorothy L. Sayers. Why do men stupefy themselves? / Leo Tolstoy. Reconcile your past / Adolfo Quezada
Workship: We are called to workship / Evelyn Underhill. O for a thousand tongues to sing / Charles Wesley. God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins. The glory of God ; The chief end of prayer / Andrew Murray
Guidance: On love and non-violence / Martin Luther King Jr.. Christ guides us to seeing / John Ruusbroec. Rules for the discernment of spirits / Ignatius Loyola. Enjoying the floods and other disasters / G.K. Chesterton
Celebration: A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti. Sarah's laughter / Frederick Buechner. At the wedding of Odette Bacot and Jean Teilhard d'Eyry (14 June 1928) / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Religious joy ; Christ, a quickening spirit / John Henry Newman
Readings for the fifth week: The firstfruits of the spirit / John Wesley. Comparatively small faults and virtues / Hannah More. What it means to be a creature / Frederick William Faber. The traffic of the temple / Amy Carmichael.
2. Prayer
3. Fasting
4. Study
5 Simplicity
6. Solitude
7. Submission
8. Service
9. Confession
10. Worship
11. Guidance
12. Celebration.
Introduction
Meditation: A godly meditation / Thomas More. Meditation ; How to meditate ; Contemplation : the prayer of loving attention ; How to contemplate / Joyce Huggett. The gift of contemplation / Thomas Merton. The soul describes the seven stages / Marguerite Porete
Prayer: Is praying difficult? ; Superabundance of the heart / André Louf. Experiments in prayer / Agnes Sanford. Starting to pray ; How and why short prayer pierces heaven / Author of The cloud of unknowning. Concerning the Our Father / Simone Weil
Fasting: A fasting on criticalness / Catherine Marshall. Fasting, a source of trial / John Henry Newman. Cleansing of the heart / Augustine of Hippo. Prayer and fasting, public or private? / William Law
Study: The cause of spiritual stupidity / George MacDonald. The secret of leadership / Lilias Trotter. Three New Testament serendipities / J.B. Phillips. Is there not a shorter way? / Phoebe Palmer
Simplicity: The blessedness of possessing nothing / A.W. Tozer. Do not be anxious about your life / Martin Luther. The Lord opened unto me / George Fox. All for nothing, nothing for all / Clare of Assisi
Solitude: The silent beach, the bowl of stars / Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Solitude and silence / Thomas à Kempis. The meaning of silence / John Main. The power of listening, the power of silence / Paul Tournier
Submission: In my great task-master's eye / John Milton. The shepherd in search of lost obedience / Thomas R. Kelly. Wait and wait again / Richard of St. Victor. God's instrument / Alan Paton
Service: Give all for all / Hadewijch of Antwerp. When our work becomes a spiritual work working in the world / Meister Eckhart. Hospitality to the poor / Dorothy Day. God of my daily routine / Karl Rahner
Confession: Letter to Christian laypeople / Hildegard of Bingen. Sinfulness in society / Dorothy L. Sayers. Why do men stupefy themselves? / Leo Tolstoy. Reconcile your past / Adolfo Quezada
Workship: We are called to workship / Evelyn Underhill. O for a thousand tongues to sing / Charles Wesley. God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins. The glory of God ; The chief end of prayer / Andrew Murray
Guidance: On love and non-violence / Martin Luther King Jr.. Christ guides us to seeing / John Ruusbroec. Rules for the discernment of spirits / Ignatius Loyola. Enjoying the floods and other disasters / G.K. Chesterton
Celebration: A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti. Sarah's laughter / Frederick Buechner. At the wedding of Odette Bacot and Jean Teilhard d'Eyry (14 June 1928) / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Religious joy ; Christ, a quickening spirit / John Henry Newman
Readings for the fifth week: The firstfruits of the spirit / John Wesley. Comparatively small faults and virtues / Hannah More. What it means to be a creature / Frederick William Faber. The traffic of the temple / Amy Carmichael.
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