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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459261003321

Autore

Israel Martin

Titolo

Learning to love / / Martin Israel and Neil Broadbent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Mowbray, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

1-282-71012-5

9786612710124

1-4411-2237-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Christian Insights

Disciplina

241.4

Soggetti

Love - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. The Foundation of Existence: God and Creation; 2. Jesus: Servant and Christ; 3. The Holy Spirit: The Lord, the Giver of Life; 4. The Religious Quest: The Search for Truth; 5. Faith and Reason: The Two ways of Approaching Truth; 6. A Loving God: With so Much Suffering in the World?; 7. A Sacramental Way: Seeing Holiness in Everything; 8. False Gods and Human Crutches: The Power of Illusion in Life; 9. The Company we Keep: What we do with our thoughts and Feelings; 10. Humiliation and Humility: The way to Acceptable Behaviour

11. Fear, Failing and Forgiveness: The way of Spiritual Growth12. Ages and Stages of the Spiritual Path: The Education of the will; 13. The Prosaic Encounter with God: The Discipline of Dailyness; 14. The Word of God: Creation and Regeneration; 15. The Sequel to a Life: The Four Last Things; 16. The Mystical Walk: Our way in Christ; Notes; Further Reading and Resources

Sommario/riassunto

In this new book, Martin Israel explores the question: How can we learn to obey the commandment to love our neighbor? Through powerful meditations on the nature and responsibilities of existence and love Israel shows to his readers some of paths for the mystical walk that ends in love. He writes:One does not believe in God; one knows Him by



experience, and that experience makes all life's vicissitudes worth while. For this end is glorious [and] as one grows so one's vision expands to include all humanity and ultimately all that lives.