LEADER 02827nam 2200577 450 001 9910811138703321 005 20230807211805.0 010 $a1-4982-3023-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000719318 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001674557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16472925 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14946898 035 $a(PQKB)10119351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4534476 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4534476 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11215524 035 $a(OCoLC)951223616 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000719318 100 $a20160620h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe only mind worth having $eThomas Merton and the child mind /$fFiona Gardner ; foreword by Rowan Williams 210 1$aEugene, Oregon :$cCascade Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4982-3022-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIn The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path toward spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experience to organized innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God. 606 $aChildren$xReligious life 606 $aSpirituality 606 $aChristianity$xPsychology 606 $aPsychology, Religious 615 0$aChildren$xReligious life. 615 0$aSpirituality. 615 0$aChristianity$xPsychology. 615 0$aPsychology, Religious. 676 $a271.12502 700 $aGardner$b Fiona$f1950-$01037483 702 $aWilliams$b Rowan$f1950- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811138703321 996 $aThe only mind worth having$94069798 997 $aUNINA