The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes LivesHarper Collins, 6 окт. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 288 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. |
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... fact , many Christians cannot even believe he actually intended for us to carry them out . So what is the result ? His teachings are treated as a mere ideal , one that we may better ourselves by aiming for but know we are bound to fall ...
... fact , many Christians cannot even believe he actually intended for us to carry them out . So what is the result ? His teachings are treated as a mere ideal , one that we may better ourselves by aiming for but know we are bound to fall ...
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... facts with which we are all familiar Think of certain young people who idolize an outstanding base- ball player . They want nothing so much as to pitch or run or hit as well as their idol . So what do they do ? When they are playing in ...
... facts with which we are all familiar Think of certain young people who idolize an outstanding base- ball player . They want nothing so much as to pitch or run or hit as well as their idol . So what do they do ? When they are playing in ...
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... facts . A baseball player who expects to excel in the game without adequate exercise of his body is no more ridiculous than the Christian who hopes to be able to act in the manner of Christ when put to the test without the appropriate ...
... facts . A baseball player who expects to excel in the game without adequate exercise of his body is no more ridiculous than the Christian who hopes to be able to act in the manner of Christ when put to the test without the appropriate ...
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... fact well and lived accordingly . Because of the contemporary bias with which we read the Gospels - a bias we'll be discussing later we have great difficulty seeing the main emphases in his life . We forget that being the unique Son of ...
... fact well and lived accordingly . Because of the contemporary bias with which we read the Gospels - a bias we'll be discussing later we have great difficulty seeing the main emphases in his life . We forget that being the unique Son of ...
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... fact that they must start at the beginning and go through the middle.2 So , ironically , in our efforts to avoid the necessary pains of disci- pline we miss the easy yoke and light burden . We then fall into the rending frustration of ...
... fact that they must start at the beginning and go through the middle.2 So , ironically , in our efforts to avoid the necessary pains of disci- pline we miss the easy yoke and light burden . We then fall into the rending frustration of ...
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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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Стр. 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.
Стр. vii - The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...