Tom Stella

Finding God Beyond Religion

A Guide for Skeptics, Agnostics & Unorthodox Believers Inside & Outside the Church

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible guide to a meaningful spiritual life that reinterprets traditional religious teachings central to the Christian faith in ways that connect with people who have outgrown the beliefs and devotional practices that once made sense to them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SkyLight Paths
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9781594734854
• ISBN-10: 1594734852
• Artikelnr.: 36937980

Autorenporträt

Formerly a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross, Tom Stella is the cofounder and director of Soul Link, Inc., a nonprofit for spiritual seekers, a spiritual director, and retreat facilitator. Tom has been a campus minister, and a hospital, hospice, and work place chaplain. He is the author of six books--The God Instinct; A Faith Worth Believing; Finding God Beyond Religion; CPR for the Soul; In Sync with the Sacred, Out of Step with the World; and Meditations for Mediocre Mystics--and has earned graduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame MDiv (theology), the University of Michigan MA (counseling), and the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley STM (spirituality).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xi
Introduction xv
1. God Beyond Religion 1
2. What Becomes of Prayer If There Is No God? 13
3. From Belief to Faith 27
4. Jesus: The Way, or in the Way? 39
5. Why Didn't Someone Tell Me I'm a Mystic? 51
6. Inspiration Is Not Dictation 65
7. Morality As Right Relationship 77
8. What Problem of Evil? 89
9. Church with a Mission, Mission with a Church 103
Epilogue: A Spiritual Epoch on the Rise 115
Acknowledgments 119
Notes 121
Suggestions for Further Reading 125