| Spiritual Direction: Principles & Practices | 
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Category: Book
Author: Robert Morneau
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
Studio: Crossroad Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Crossroad Publishing Company
Label: Crossroad Publishing Company
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0824512022
Dewey Decimal Number: 253.53
EAN: 9780824512026
ASIN: 0824512022
Publication Date: October 25, 1992
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Product Description
One of today's most eminent Christian leaders describes 10 principles of spiritual direction and 10 guidelines for prayer, discernment, and asceticism. Morneau shares a rich understanding of reverence, the primacy of joy, and gives a series of delightful spiritual exercises for "eclectic nomads."
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A Good Path To Take July 24, 2000
Robert Morneau's "Spiritual Direction: A Path to Spiritual Maturity" proves once again that Bishop Morneau is a writer of great spiritual maturity himself. This book of essays, written originally as a series of articles for professional journals like "Review for Religious" and "Pastoral Life," allows Morneau's thoughts wider circulation. "Spiritual Direction" itself is divided into two sections: Principles of Spirituality and The Practice of Spirituality. The first section is more thematically unified and focuses of the principles of prayer, discernment, asceticism, and spiritual direction. Each chapter in this chapter posits ten tenets, substantiated by a series of quotations giving the source or effect of each tenet and a commentary developing its implications. The chapters in the second section are more independent of each other and less structured. They address such diverse topics as reverence, spiritual exercises for eclectic nomads, the defense of joy, and Quaker spirituality. I was particularly struck by Morneau's thoughts on asceticism and reverence. I hope that someday he will write more linking these two concepts. He argues -- successfully in my estimation -- that asceticism is essential to Christian spirituality. To Morneau, "asceticism, that voluntary participation in the full life of another, is essentially relational." This thought dovetails nicely with his chapter on reverence, which he sees as a "profoundly communal virtue that creates an atmosphere" conducive to spiritual growth.
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