. The extraordinary new york times bestselling masterpiece from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time" San Francisco Chronicle. An examination of acedia in the light of psychology, spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, brimming with exasperation and reverence, often provocative, sometimes funny, Acedia & Me is both intimate and historically sweeping, and Norris's own experience, and always insightful.
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The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times French Edition
He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life― priests, religious, and married or single laymen.
It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaningAbbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.
Dwarf Planet: A Practical Guide Through Depression
The author receives no royalties. Depression feels like living on a distant dwarf planet. We're going to get you off this rock. This book is part of the outreach programs of HeartSupport--an organization created by Grammy-nominated musician Jake Luhrs of the metal band August Burns Red. Inside these pages, you'll explore new facts about your depression and navigate obstacles that stand in the way.
If you're tired of trite books that read like medical dictionaries and want authentic and vulnerable storytelling, Dwarf Planet is the escape pod you've been looking for. This book is your way out. You know the feeling. The noonday devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times. You're in a cold, lifeless place, and all alone on the fringes of the solar system.
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
160;kathleen norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, harsh and forgiving, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, steeped in history and myth. The noonday devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times.
Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
Sloth is not mere laziness, but a disgust with reality, however, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by josef pieper, the slothful person does not “want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally is.
Sloth is a hellish despair. Acedia and its discontents resists despair, calling us to reconfigure our imaginations and practices in deep love of the life and work given by God. The noonday devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times.
The Cloister Walk
Why would a married woman with a thoroughly protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, somewhat to her own surprise, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, she found herself on two extended residencies at St.
John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the benedictines, the cloister walk demonstrates, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world-- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community-- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives.
A new york times bestseller and new york times notable book of the year“vivid, compelling. An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation. The new york times“A remarkable piece of writing. In this stirring and lyrical work, accessible, and relevant to us, becomes immediate, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, no matter what our faith may be.
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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
She evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday life—and offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world. Blending history, and memoir, etymology, storytelling, Norris uses these words as a starting point for reflection, theology, and offers a moving account of her own gradual conversion.
A new york times notable book of the yearfrom the new york times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, a book about Christianity, spirituality, and rediscovered faith. Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith.
Great product! . She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace.
Where the Light Divides
Fred writes that this book "is not about my life but seeing the world for a time through my eyes. He "tells it slant, " as Emily Dickinson called it. Great product! A new york times notable book of the year from the new york times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, spirituality, a book about Christianity, and rediscovered faith.
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The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
Oxford university Press USA. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within. It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Great product! Drawing upon the wisdom of St. The noonday devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times.
. John of the cross, and many other christian and non-christian writers, Simone Weil, Meister Eckhardt, Edward Abbey, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. In the tradition of kathleen norris, and thomas merton, terry Tempest Williams, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.
There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us.
Evagrius Ponticus: Ad Monachos Ancient Christian Writers
Besides offering the greek text and an English translation, Driscoll examines its structure and style, and offers commentary on different proverbs. Great product! First-time translation of an ancient text jeremy driscoll makes available for the first time in English the text known as Ad Monachos, by Evagrius Ponticus 345-399, who was among the first of the desert fathers to articulate in writing the wisdom of the monastic movement.
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