Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1646026 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
This new edition of a classic work of spiritual theology, one of the first to emerge out of the spiritual direction movement, helps us to explore spiritual direction in the wider context of Christian friendship. Rather than focusing exclusively on the relationship between director and directed, Exploring Spiritual Direction is a spacious work in which all can find their place. It is concerned with the whole life of the body and spirit as the background against which spiritual friendship unfolds, and in that way truly integrates theology and spirituality. Jones begins with our need for companionship that helps to clarify our understanding and let us move beyond our own prejudices to see the true nature of things. Insisting on the need to undertake spiritual direction as an act of worship within a faith comunity, he goes on to look at the part that spiritual warfare, vulnerability, imagination, contemplation, and sacrifice all play in the work of spiritual guidance.