Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living

ISBN-13: 9780789033659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 198 str.

Neil Pembroke

Opis

Pembroke examines Christian maturity from three interrelated perspectives; psychotherapeutic psychology, prayer and contemplation, and moral theology. He focuses on the challenge of growing into spiritual maturity through psychological wholeness, the conversion to the true self and interpersonal and social responsibility.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
• Chapter 1. Setting the Scene: Self-Fulfillment and Vocation
• Psychological Approaches to Personal Fulfillment
• Continuities and Discontinuities with the Christian Tradition
• The Way of Love
• Balancing Self-Giving and Self-Love
• PART II: TOWARD PSYCHOLOGICAL WHOLENESS
• Chapter 2. Wholeness in the Community of the Self
• The Self and Its Subselves
• Freud and Berne on Suppression of Selves
• Suppression of Selves and the Christian Life
• Kohut and Jung on Disowning Selves
• Working with Disowned Subselves
• Morally Relevant Selves
• The Spirit and the Christian’s Moral Imperative
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Wholeness, Not Perfection
• The Bind of Perfectionism
• Christ and Individuation
• Paul and the Inner Struggle
• Reconciliation of Inner Opposites
• Completeness in Christ
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Cognitive Reframing and Perfectionism
• Guilt-Based and Shame-Based Perfectionism
• The Basics of Cognitive Therapy
• Dealing with Shame-Based Perfectionism
• Summary
• PART III: PRAYER, CONTEMPLATION, AND CONVERSION
• Chapter 5. Spirituality in the Everyday World
• Spirituality and Nature
• The Spirit of the City
• A Spirituality of Time
• Spirituality in Marriage and Family
• Spirituality and Public Life
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Conversion to the True Self
• True and False Selves
• “Storied Prayer”: Remembering, Attending, and Choosing
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Conversion to Compassion
• Compassion in the Bible
• Compassion As Hospitality
• The Compassionate Community
• Prayer As Solidarity
• Summary
• PART IV: CONSCIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
• Chapter 8. Conscience and “Contrast Experiences”
• Defining Conscience
• Conscience and Vision
• Conscience and Living a Vision for Discipleship
• Summary
• Chapter 9. The Agape Response
• Agape
• Outka and “Universal Love”
• Post and “Communion”
• Self-Sacrifice and Oppression
• Summary
• Chapter 10. The Virtues of Responsibility
• Aristotle on Virtue
• Aquinas on Virtue
• The Virtuous Christian
• Summary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

O autorze

Neil Pembroke