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Living With Apocalypse: Spiritual Resources for Social

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This breakthrough book offers a contemplative perspective on contemporary social problems. Living with Apocalypse discerns guidelines for courageous attitudes and actions in our time of seemingly imminent social and political upheaval in the midst of an escalating arms race. It offers the resources— scriptural, theological, contemplative, historical, familial, and personal— needed to confront the threats, confusion, and temptations of our age with realistic, solidly grounded solutions. Living with Apocalypse provides fresh perspectives on the relationship between the inner life and the course of our existence as individuals and as a society. Dr. Tilden Edwards of the Shalem Institute has brought together an impressive list of contributors: Henri J. M. Nouwen, Parker J. Palmer, James Forbes, Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., Rosemary Haughton, Constance FitzGerald, O.C.D., Joanna Rogers Macy, John Haughey, S.J., E. Glenn Hinson, Dolores Leckey, and Gerald G. May. They speak directly, with sensitivity and insight, to such central issues as the relationship of revolution, spiritual disciplines, identity, and suffering to contemporary spiritual and social struggle; spiritual (particularly contemplative) foundations for compassionate social change; the social consequences of the indwelling Spirit; responding creatively to social impasse and social despair to make this “dark night time of human limitation and crises a learning process for a new vision and harmony"; defining social compassion within the Christian tradition and developing such compassion to mirror authentically and empoweringly the compassion of Christ. Living with Apocalypse offers ways to achieve the spiritual awareness and discipline that are twin keys to redeeming our own lives as individuals, our society, and our world. The authors gathered here provide ways to foster God's just and reconciling peace within the many social configurations of our planet: ethnic, class, and racial groups; communities, nations, religious traditions; and our fundamental relationship to our ecological environment (including our own bodies). Some writers focus on resources that involve our basic understanding and attitudes; others focus on particular practical disciplines. All embody the need for raising up effective spiritual resources for social compassion that ca meet the urgent needs of our critical historical time. Living with Apocalypse holds out help and hope to those already involved in social ministries of various kinds—from family counseling to intentional peace concerns—and encourages those not yet committed that there is still world enough to save, and time enough to save it. The experiences and practices presented in Living with Apocalypse give sound guidance to assist us in moving more surely through this apocalyptic time with a discerning trust, an openness to God's transforming presence in the world, and a creative, healing, truly responsive social compassion.

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261.8

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San Francisco : Harper & Row., 1984

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Hardcover, 218 hlm, 14.5x21.5 cm

Language

English

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0-06-062123-0

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261.8

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Tilden H. Edwards

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