Encountering God -- Intimacy, art and meditation -- The climate of meditation -- The spiritual world as the soul's soil -- Cracking the husk : man's need for God -- To whom do we pray? -- The creative power of love -- A word of warning and encouragement -- Time -- Silence : discovering the way inward -- Aids in the pratice of silence -- Silence, mysticism and religious experience -- Exploring t…
Translation of Die Hinreise. Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Archbishop Ted Scott -- Living water -- the need for exploring new worlds to find ourselves -- India -- insights gained from living with people piled on people -- Thailand -- in refugee camps and teeming cities, learning to gossip the gospel -- Central America -- people and churches working at the alternatives to revolution -- Argentina, Peru, Chile -- the gulf between the electric t…
The ultimate why -- Seekers sought -- The haunting question -- Everyone, everywhere, everything -- By Him, to Him, for Him -- Do what you are -- A time to stand -- Let God be God -- The audience of one -- Our utmost for His highest still -- Where the buck stops, there stand I -- People of the call -- Followers of the way -- There but for the grace of God goes God -- What is that to you? -- More…
"Includes the complete text of Living Faith and Sources fo Strength."/Living Faith originally published: New York : Times Books, 1996. Secret Strength priginally published: new York : Times Books, 1997. Sources of strength-Living faith.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Zeige mir den Weg. Includes bibliographical references.
Action in waiting / Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt -- Black rook in rainy weather / Sylvia Plath -- The dangers of Advent / J.B. Phillips -- Meditation / Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster -- Waiting for God / Henri Nouwen -- In defense of humility / Bernard of Clairvaux -- Annunciation / Kathleen Norris -- Where God enters / Meister Eckhart -- The divine dawning / St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner -- Co…
1. Preliminary, polemical, nondefinitive postscript -- My purpose in this book -- The ultimate paradox: Another book on Ecclesiastes -- Presuppositions in studies of Ecclesiastes -- Critical agreement and pseudonymity in Ecclesiastes -- Wisdom and poetry -- Philosophy, truth, and reality in Qohelet -- Qohelet as ritual incantation -- Structure in Qohelet -- Contradiction as an essential princip…