The Shattered Lantern,9780824518844

The Shattered Lantern

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780824518844
ISBN10: 0824518845
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Crossroad Pub Co
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Summary

This book draws from a variety of stories and experiences to offer a spiritual antidote. The author suggests that the only way back to a lively faith is not a question of finding the right answers, but of living in a certain way, contemplatively.

Author Biography

Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., a Roman Catholic priest, is the General Councillor for Canada for his order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He has offices in both Toronto and Rome. He holds a doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University of Louvain and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(13)
Acknowledgments 13(2)
Part I Narcissism, Pragmatism, Unbridled Restlessness, and the Loss of the Ancient Instinct for Astonishment 15(60)
The Problem of Unbelief among Believers
17(11)
Narcissism, Pragmatism, Unbridled Restlessness and the Non-Contemplative Personality
28(25)
A Radically Changed Situation: The Non-Contemplative Personality
53(22)
Part II Recovering the Ancient Instinct for Astonishment: Three Contemplative Traditions within Western Christian Thought 75(98)
The Purification of Awareness: The Mystical Tradition
77(29)
Contemplation as Respecting the Holiness of God: The Protestant Contemplative Tradition
106(31)
Recognizing and Appropriating the Experience of Contingency: The Philosophical Tradition of Theism
137(36)
Part III Recovering the Ancient Instinct for Astonishment: Toward a Concrete Praxis 173(2)
Some Contemporary Spiritual Exercises
175

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