Ways of the Desert : Becoming Holy Through Difficult Times

ISBN-13: 9780789008596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 166 str.

William F. Kraft

Opis

Ways of the Desert analyzes how spiritual experiences are similar to and differ from psychological ones. You will explore how the so-called "negative" desert experiences like depression, anxiety, lonliness, guilt and anger can be opportunities for spiritual growth. This book explains that opposites are necessary and related parts of healthy and holy development, and that especially in a spiritual life, the positive and negative are related. This book takes you on a journey through the deserts and promised lands of adolescence, young, established, mid-life, and middle-aged adulthood, and the elderly years.

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Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Desert Stories
• Pilgrim People
• Chapter 2. A Vision of Spiritual Development
• Deserts
• Deserts as Creative Suffering
• Promised Lands
• Time
• Is a Stage Approach Valid?
• Chapter 3. Desert Life
• Being in the Desert
• The Desert as a Fundamental Life Force
• Chapter 4. Desert Languages
• Loneliness
• Aloneness
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Shame
• Guilt
• Frustration
• Anger
• Boredom
• Apathy
• Anguish
• Chapter 5. Adolescence
• Desert of Disenchantment
• Land of Enchantment
• Chapter 6. Young Adulthood
• Desert of Discovery
• Land of Surrender
• Chapter 7. Established Adulthood
• Desert of Self-Concern
• Land of Self-Actualization
• Chapter 8. Midlife Adulthood
• Desert of Limits
• Land of Unlimitedness
• Chapter 9. Middle-Aged Adulthood
• Desert of Depression
• Land of Joy
• Chapter 10. The Elder Years
• Desert of Death
• Land of Life
• Bibliography
• Index

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Harold G Koenig