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Chargement... Prayer and Personal Religionpar John B. Coburn
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The purpose of this volume says John Coburn is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we respond. This book is concerned with this general pattern. Chapters include: Prayer is Response to God Be Yourself and Begin with Where You Are Clearing the Ground: When, Where, and How to Pray The Foundation Stones of Prayer: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition The House that Prayer Builds: Prayers that You Think, that You Feel, that You Will Progress in Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God; Reading, Prayer Groups, Retreats; a Rule of Life; On Beginning Again Mature Personal Religion: Action and Worship On Suffering and Joy Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)264.1Religions Christian church and church work Public Worship; Ritual Prayer; Extempore; LiturgicClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (2)
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The idea of "personal religion" is a little -- OK, a lot -- unclear. And the idea of prayer as communication with a divinity is foreign to this text. Still, the author begins his concluding chapter with a beautiful sentiment from William Blake, below, and the admission that "suffering and joy are inextricably bound together". But what does that "mean"? !! [90]
He offers this non-explanation: "The reason that suffering joyfully for the love of God is so powerful is very simply that this is the way of the cross. This is the way Christ did his work." [95] This is not helpful. Who thinks, or could possibly "want", a divinity to suffer for any reason, much less for love!
So here is the excerpt from the Blake poem "Auguries of Innocence":
Man was made for joy and woe;
And, when this we rightly know,
Safely through the world we go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine."
We wear this vestment on the inside.