Catherine Stewart

A Goodness I Cannot Explain (eBook, ePUB)

A Medical-Spiritual Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"We found something." With these words, a Presbyterian minister is thrust into a medical crisis: a tumor is pressing on her brain. Doctors cannot offer a preferred treatment plan: radiation and surgery are equally valid but carry vastly different risks and consequences. She herself must choose. She plunges into a maze of medical research, but the analytical mode of Western culture cannot help her find peace in her decision. Instead, she is unwittingly led along an ancient prayer path called Lectio Divina, and transformed by inexplicable and repeated encounters with goodness. Still a community's shepherd in faith, she shoulders the question they too ask: "Can God be found here?" The maze becomes a labyrinth: a spiritual journey that brings her to a center that holds. Her decision made, she undergoes treatment. "You must have been terrified," a friend says. That is when the author realizes that her experience is unusual: she had not been afraid. How to explain that? This memoir recounts how her ideas of God and self are reshaped as she discovers a place of deep knowing and trust. Humbled and surprised, she experiences in her body the gospel she has preached for years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498209205
• Artikelnr.: 63253726

Autorenporträt

Catherine Stewart has served as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in Canada for twenty-five years. A graduate of McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago), she is also a Benedictine oblate (Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Indiana). To answer a seven-year-old's question, "Why did Jesus have to die?", she authored the book God Laughed (2011). She teaches a form of listening prayer called Lectio Divina, and shepherds congregations going through transitions.