Integrating Christian spirituality and contemporary psychology, this book presents aging as a positive opportunity for development, even amidst the many challenges that come with it. This view opposes a negative cultural stereotype of aging as only a time of decline. The work explores how faith can contribute to optimal aging by providing a Christian perspective on such topics as: loss and diminishment, loneliness and suffering, death and dying. It also reflects on many of the issues that confr...
Aging with Wisdom and Grace explores the contributions faith can make to optimal aging, providing a Christian perspective on such topics as: loss and diminishment, loneliness and suffering, death and dying, regrets and unhealed wounds, gratitude, and generativity.
God's Unconditional Love shows how we meet God's love in our places of shame and darkness and how distorted images of God such as the judging God, the indifferent God, the demanding God-keep us from approaching the God revealed by Jesus.
God's Unconditional Love shows how we meet God's love in our places of shame and darkness and how distorted images of God such as the judging God, the indifferent God, the demanding God-keep us from approaching the God revealed by Jesus.
Integrating the wisdom of Christian tradition and recent psychological findings on effective decision-making, this volume presents a view of Christian discernment that honors the body-spirit unity of the person and the broad and mysterious ways we can be led by the Spirit of God in our life-choices.
Integrating the wisdom of Christian tradition and recent psychological findings on effective decision-making, this volume presents a view of Christian discernment that honors the body-spirit unity of the person and the broad and mysterious ways we can be led by the Spirit of God in our life-choices.
Integrating the findings of modern psychology and traditional Christian spirituality, this book presents a spirituality of gratitude that can guide contemporary Christians in living with an expanded awareness of how grace abounds everywhere, as well as the personal and cultural hurdles that stand in the way of being grateful.
