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

ISBN-13: 9780789033666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 200 str.

Neil Pembroke

Opis

Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living uses examples from everyday life to provide a thoughtful, integrative exploration of the journey to spiritual maturity through three interrelated perspectives: psychotherapeutic psychology, prayer and contemplation, and moral theology.

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