Great Spiritual Masters: Their Answers to Six of Life's QuestionsPaulist Press, 2002 - 228 páginas This volume brings together six great religious masters, men and women of sexceptional spiritual wisdom, who answer six deep questions for contemporary society. Ignatius of Loyola shows us how to find self-mastery in life. St. Augustine explains how we can look within ourselves to find our deepest meaning. Julian of Norwich gives new insights into the feminine dimension of God in divine motherhood. Gregory of Nyssa teaches us how to grow in perfection. Dante Alighieri reveals the power of love for the spiritual journey as he portrays his love of Beatrice on the way to Paradise. And St. Bonaventure presents his stunning concept of Jesus as the Art of God. Dr. Farina helps the reader to encounter the thought of these spiritual teachers firsthand through important selections of their writings and his own clear and insightful introductions to each. |
Contenido
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FINDING MEANING BY LOOKING WITHIN AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO | 55 |
TALKING ABOUT GOD AND GENDER JULIAN OF NORWICH | 97 |
SELFIMPROVEMENT GREGORY OF NYSSAS WAY OF PERFECTION | 125 |
RELATING LOVE EROSAND GOD DANTE ALIGHIERI | 149 |
RELATING RELIGION AND ART BONAVENTURE AND THE ART OF GOD | 199 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alypius Apostle ascent Augustine Augustine of Hippo Beatrice beauty behold Bernard of Clairvaux blessed Trinity body Bonaventure CHAPTER Christ Christian church Classics of Western command consolation contemplation created creation Creator and Lord creature Dante Dante Alighieri Dante's desire desolation divine earthly enemy eternal evil EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE eyes face faith Father follow Francis giving the Exercises glory God and gender God's grace Gregory Gregory of Nyssa heaven Holy Spirit human nature Ignatius Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius's intellect Jesus journey Julian Julian of Norwich light live look meaning meditation memory mercy mind moral Moses Mother motherhood move never one's ourselves Paulist Press perfect person prayer Purgatory religious Scripture sense sight sins soul speak Spiritual Exercises sweet thee things third thou thought tion true truly truth turn understanding unto virtue vision wants Western Spirituality wisdom words
Pasajes populares
Página 21 - Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created.
Página 93 - But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Página 191 - Impossible were; the example, then, suffice Him for whom Grace the experience reserves. If I was merely what of me thou newly Createdst, Love who governest the heaven, Thou knowest, who didst lift me with thy light!
Página 47 - Again, reflecting on myself, to ask what have I done for Christ, what am I doing for Christ, what ought I to do for Christ.
Página 187 - Upon the back of Italy congeals, Blown on and drifted by Sclavonian winds, And then, dissolving, trickles through itself Whene'er the land that loses shadow breathes, So that it seems a fire that melts a taper; E'en thus was I without a tear or sigh, Before the song of those who sing for ever , After the music of eternal spheres.
Página 34 - ... in the future. Accordingly, the one giving the Exercises ought not to lean or incline in either direction but rather, while standing by like the pointer of a scale in equilibrium, to allow the Creator to deal immediately with the creature and the creature with its Creator and Lord.
Página 87 - Late have I loved you, O Beauty, so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!