Susan R Pitchford: 2 books
God in the Dark
Suffering and Desire in the Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Contemporary Christianity is afflicted with two problems: First, our spiritual life is often bland and lukewarm. Distracted and fragmented by our lives, and malnourished on conventional piety, we feel out of touch with the God described in the Bible as a consuming fire." Second, we don't know...
The Sacred Gaze
Contemplation and the Healing of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Eight hundred years ago, Clare of Assisi advised a correspondent to gaze into the mirror of the crucified Christ and study her own face within it. A hundred years ago, sociologist Charles Horton Cooley said we can know our self only as it is reflected to us by others. Contemplation is the choice to...