Paul R Dekar: 3 books
Thomas Merton
Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Thomas Merton was arguably the twentieth century's most widely published and widely read spiritual writer. This book explores Merton's prophetic writings and experience as they offer guidance for spiritual seekers in their search to experience God, to simplify their lives, to live more humanly, and...
Community of the Transfiguration
The Journey of a New Monastic Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
In the 1930s, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer anticipated the restoration of the church after the coming second world war through a new kind of monasticism, a way of life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ. Since then, the renewal of Christian monasticism...
Building a Culture of Peace
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the First Seventy Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Around the world, thousands of grassroots movements are confronting issues like destruction of the environment, economic depression, human rights violations, religious fundamentalism, and war. This book tells the courageous story of one such group. Organizing in 1939, Northern Baptists formed the...