John Joseph Powell (1) (1925–2009)
Auteur de Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent John Joseph Powell, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de John Joseph Powell
Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?/Why Am I Afraid To Love: Insights Into Personal Growth (Exclusive 2-in-1 Edition) (1969) 14 exemplaires
Books By John Powell (Unconditional Love, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am, the Secret of Staying in Love, Fully… (1976) 3 exemplaires
THE FULLY ALIVE EXPERIENCE : WORKBOOK 2 exemplaires
Free To Be Me - Part 3 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Faith: The Search for God - Disc 1 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Faith: The Search for God - Disc 2 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Free To Be Me - Part 1 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Free To Be Me - Part 2 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
良好溝通的秘訣 = Will the real me please stand up? 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Jesus According To...: Contemporary Answers to Jesus' Haunting Question "Who Do You Say That I Am?" (1992) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Powell, John Joseph
- Autres noms
- Powell, John
包約翰 - Date de naissance
- 1925-09-22
- Date de décès
- 2009-09-24
- Sexe
- male
- Organisations
- Roman Catholic Church
Society of Jesus - Courte biographie
- Jesuit priest who was accused of sexually abusing at least seven female students in the 1960s and 1970s.
He was sued in 2003 and again in 2006. Five cases were settled out of court in 2005.
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 39
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 3,721
- Popularité
- #6,807
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 119
- Langues
- 17
"Success at therapy can be measured by growth in positive, life-giving attitudes towards self, others, life, the world, and God. The composite of all these attitudes is a person's vision, the way he or she sees reality. It is this vision that determines the emotional patterns of one's life. Only if this vision is sound and healthy can a person enjoy a truly happy and a fully human life." (pg 139)
I was disappointed to find out that Powell was accused of (and admitted to) sexually abusing several women during his years in ministry. That definitely put a damper on my enjoyment of the book. I'm not sure if Powell's insights should be completely dismissed on that regard, though. I suspect that if I threw out every book in every library which was written by a person who had grievous sin in their life (whether it had been exposed yet or not) then I would have to throw almost all of them out, including most of the books of the Bible. I really am not sure what to think of that except that we are all broken people who are being loved by a perfect God, and that it seems we have a better chance at understanding God's love if we share what we are learning with each other than if we rely only on ourselves and our own insights.
Thus, I continue to read.… (plus d'informations)