Trumpet at Full Moon: An Introduction to Christian Spirituality as Diverse PracticeIn this very personal book, W. Paul Jones sees the diverse experience of individuals as the backbone of spirituality, and claims that the Trinity affirms a rich diversity within God and within God's way of relating to the world. He considers each Person of the Trinity as being involved in each "function" of God--as creator, redeemer and sanctifier--and arrives at nine dimensions of God's life that invite a response. Jones develops each of the nine dimensions with an extended meditation, followed by a series of practical and creative spiritual exercises. |
Contents
A Prelude | 1 |
Can Even the Idea | 17 |
Serenity in the Abiding | 46 |
Rhythm and the Restless Voyage | 58 |
Fragility and the Gift of Life | 72 |
Companionship and the Divine | 85 |
Craving | 106 |
Promise and Delight as New Innocence | 121 |
The Secular as Daily Sacrament | 133 |
Imagination and the Dream as Mission | 149 |
Notes | 183 |
Common terms and phrases
Abyss analogy become beginning blessed called Christ Christian church color comes common-day Compline cosmos creative Creator daily dance death delight discernment discipline distill Divine Divine-human dream earth ence entails Eucharist Evelyn Underhill everything evoked exercise experienced exploring eyes face fact feel final Four Quartets functioning gift God's heart hints Holy imagination Incarnation insists invitation Jesus Joachim Jeremias Lectio Divina liturgy live Luke Matt means meditation morning mystery ness never nothingness one's oneself painting Paul Tillich persons pilgrimage play pluralistic practice prayer presence primal promise question recognized Redeemer relation relationship restlessness rhythm sacramental sacred Sanctifier scripture sense silence simply sound spirit mode spirit type spiritual direction spiritual director story strange symbolic T. S. Eliot taproot taste Teresa of Avila things Thomas Merton tion Trappist Trinity triune turn understanding vision walk whole words yearning
Popular passages
Page 188 - 0 Lord my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty, who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent, who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters,. . . who
Page 188 - when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground. . . . I
References to this book
Through the Eyes of Women: Insights for Pastoral Care Jeanne Stevenson Moessner No preview available - 1996 |