The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesHarper Collins, 2009 M10 6 - 288 páginas 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. |
Contenido
11 | |
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 |
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The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue: Understanding How God Changes Lives Dallas Willard Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
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Página 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.
Página vii - The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...