The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesHarper Collins, 6 oct. 2009 - 288 pagini How to Live as Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention. |
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Pagina 4
... course , also true of life as a whole . As Plato long ago saw , there is an art of living , and the living is excellent only when the self is prepared in all the depths and dimensions of its being . Further , this is not a truth to be ...
... course , also true of life as a whole . As Plato long ago saw , there is an art of living , and the living is excellent only when the self is prepared in all the depths and dimensions of its being . Further , this is not a truth to be ...
Pagina 8
... vow to be the same thing as intending to follow Jesus - to walk precisely " in his steps . " It is , of course , a novel , but even in real life we would count on significant changes in the lives 8 / THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES.
... vow to be the same thing as intending to follow Jesus - to walk precisely " in his steps . " It is , of course , a novel , but even in real life we would count on significant changes in the lives 8 / THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES.
Pagina 14
... course of his or her life . We have some measure of choice in what that theology will be in our own individual case , but we will certainly have a theology . And a thoughtless or unin- formed theology grips and guides our life with just ...
... course of his or her life . We have some measure of choice in what that theology will be in our own individual case , but we will certainly have a theology . And a thoughtless or unin- formed theology grips and guides our life with just ...
Pagina 18
... course , most Christians had been told by me as by others to attend the services of the church , give of time and money , pray , read the Bible , do good to others , and witness to their faith . And certainly they should do these things ...
... course , most Christians had been told by me as by others to attend the services of the church , give of time and money , pray , read the Bible , do good to others , and witness to their faith . And certainly they should do these things ...
Pagina 21
... course : liberalism versus fun- damentalism , scriptural errancy versus inerrancy , charismatic ver- sus noncharismatic , social activism versus quietism - but they had little or no bearing upon whether one was Lutheran or Methodist ...
... course : liberalism versus fun- damentalism , scriptural errancy versus inerrancy , charismatic ver- sus noncharismatic , social activism versus quietism - but they had little or no bearing upon whether one was Lutheran or Methodist ...
Cuprins
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Little Less Than a God | 44 |
The Nature of Life | 56 |
St Pauls Psychology of RedemptionThe Example | 95 |
History and the Meaning of the Disciplines | 130 |
Some Main Disciplines for the Spiritual Life | 156 |
Is Poverty Spiritual? | 215 |
Epilogue | 251 |
For SuperChristians Only? | 258 |
Bibliography | 266 |
Subject Index | 273 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue: Understanding How God Changes Lives Dallas Willard Previzualizare limitată - 1990 |
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Pagina 220 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Pagina vii - The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error.
Pagina 88 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Pagina 200 - If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Pagina 253 - He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings, which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.
Pagina 132 - Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude, and the whole train of monkish virtues; for what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society ; neither qualify him for entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?
Pagina 49 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Pagina 220 - This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another— doubtless very different— St. Benedict.
Pagina 15 - until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ...