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Spiritual Life Perspectives from Poets, Prophets, and Preachers

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ISBN-10: 0664234925

ISBN-13: 9780664234928

Edition: 2011

Authors: Allan Hugh Cole Jr.

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Description:

This revealing collection presents a selection of twenty poets, prophets, and preachers who share their understandings of what makes a "good spiritual life." They draw on their professional experiences and, as important, grace us with their personal thoughts. The result is essentially a textbook for spirituality courses, exposing readers to the spiritual lives of a wonderfully diverse group of people with a wide range of Christian experiences. Every reader is sure to find a perspective with which he or she can identify.
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 4/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
More Religious than Spiritual
Poets
The High Note
Musings on the Spiritual Life
What I Do and Why I Do It; Or, the Writing Life and the Spiritual Life
The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process
The Pie Social
Habits of a Whole Heart: Practicing Life in Christ
Behold the Beauty of the Lord: An Aesthetic Spirituality
The Spiritual Life with the Help of Favorite Poets
Prophets
A Spiritual Person
A Rebranded Life: Spirituality and Chronic Illness
On Spirituality
Keeping an Open Heart in Troubled Times: Self-Empathy as a Christian Spiritual Practice
Nursing, Eucharist, Psychosis, Metaphor
Fantasy Literature and the Spiritual Life
Theological Protest and the Spiritual Life
Spiritual Discipline
Reading St. Therese
Preachers
Practicing Spirituality in the Middle
Spiritual Integrity
Table Grace
Impractical Christianity: Why Salvation in Jesus Christ Is Better than a Practice
Sanctification and Proclamation: Walking with God
Spiritual Ill-Discipline