Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan Chittister

Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan Chittister

by Mary Hembrow Snyder
ISBN-10:
1570753695
ISBN-13:
9781570753695
Pub. Date:
05/01/2001
Publisher:
Orbis Books
ISBN-10:
1570753695
ISBN-13:
9781570753695
Pub. Date:
05/01/2001
Publisher:
Orbis Books
Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan Chittister

Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan Chittister

by Mary Hembrow Snyder

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ISBN-13: 9781570753695
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 05/01/2001
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Preface9
Acknowledgments11
Introduction13
Part INuturing Consciousness: The Personal Challenge
1.Equilibrium31
2.Better to Love Than to Fade Away32
3.Spirituality for a Global Age38
4.Filtered by the Grapes43
5.The Need for Spiritual Moorings45
6.The Saber-Toothed Tiger49
7.Who Do You, God, Say That We Are?53
8.God and Rice Bowls in a New Age57
9.Rebirthing God in the New Millennium62
Part IIBuilding Community: the Ecclesial Challenge
10.God Is the Question and God Is the Answer69
11.The Questions That Liberate New Life75
12."The Hint Half Guessed, the Gift Half Understood, Is Incarnation" (T. S. Eliot)82
13.Seven Monks Invited to Honor Joan Chittister86
14.Guess Who's Missing at Dinner90
15.We Just Don't Get It96
16.Toward a Spirituality of Communion102
17.From Asia with Love108
Part IIITransforming Structures: the Global Challenge
18.Confidence: A Way to Be Human113
19.Passion for God, Passion for the Earth118
20.World Apartheid: Our Greatest Structural Evil126
21.Finding the Face of God in an Age of Globalization134
22.Biophilia or Necrophilia? The Most Important Spiritual Question of Our Time142
23.The Dawning of a New Day--The Telling of a New Story147
24.Globalization and the Perennial Question of Justice153
25."War... Never Again!"162
Afterword: The Power of Questions to Propel: A Retrospective167
Books188
Contributors189
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