The Hidden Spirituality of Men
Title | The Hidden Spirituality of Men PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Fox |
Publisher | New World Library |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2010-09-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1577317920 |
It is no secret that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world’s critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. Popular religion forces the punitive imagery of fundamentalism on us, pushing most men away from their natural yearning for spirituality and toward intolerance and domination. Meanwhile, many men, particularly young men, are looking for images of healthy masculinity to emulate and finding nothing. To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Grandfatherly Heart to the Spiritual Warrior. He explores archetypes of sacred marriage, showing how partnership becomes the ultimate expression of healthy masculinity. By stirring our natural yearning for healthy spirituality, Fox argues, these timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to reinvent the world.
The Hidden Spirituality of Men
Title | The Hidden Spirituality of Men PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Fox |
Publisher | New World Library |
Total Pages | 4 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1577316754 |
Profiles ten masculine archetypes to inspire men on how to discover latent spiritual strengths, in a guide that includes recommendations for living in a sacred marriage and expressing an ultimate form of healthy masculinity by committing to a partnership.
Man Seeks God
Title | Man Seeks God PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Weiner |
Publisher | Twelve |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1455505706 |
Bestselling author of Geography of Bliss returns with this funny, illuminating chronicle of a globe-spanning spiritual quest to find a faith that fits. When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that. Weiner, a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate traveler, realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious practices, he's never seriously considered these concepts in his own life. Face to face with his own mortality, and spurred on by the question of what spiritual principles to impart to his young daughter, he decides to correct this omission, undertaking a worldwide exploration of religions and hoping to come, if he can, to a personal understanding of the divine. The journey that results is rich in insight, humor, and heart. Willing to do anything to better understand faith, and to find the god or gods that speak to him, he travels to Nepal, where he meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named Wayne. He sojourns to Turkey, where he whirls (not so well, as it turns out) with Sufi dervishes. He heads to China, where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel, where he studies Kabbalah, sans Madonna; and to Las Vegas, where he has a close encounter with Raelians (followers of the world's largest UFO-based religion). At each stop along the way, Weiner tackles our most pressing spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the missing socks go? With his trademark wit and warmth, he leaves no stone unturned. At a time when more Americans than ever are choosing a new faith, and when spiritual questions loom large in the modern age, Man Seeks God presents a perspective on religion that is sure to delight, inspire, and entertain.
Hidden
Title | Hidden PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Giannone |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 082324184X |
A raw, piercing, and courageously open self-scrutiny that merges the author's distinct worlds of being gay, Catholic, and a devoted son and brother to his dying mother and sister.
Things Hidden
Title | Things Hidden PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rohr |
Publisher | Franciscan Media |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2022-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1632533863 |
Discover how reading the Bible can change your life. The Bible is meant to be about transformation, not merely information. In Things Hidden, Richard Rohr invites you to experience Scripture as spirituality—as a living text that can breathe new life into your relationship with God and change your way of seeing the world. Diving deep into topics like morality, power, and wisdom, Rohr paints a picture of a biblical God who is grace-filled and abundant, and who calls us to be fully alive. Things Hidden will invigorate your relationship with the Bible and leave you feeling nourished, hopeful, and better able to embody a Christ-centered spirituality.
Encountering God
Title | Encountering God PDF eBook |
Author | Diana L. Eck |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0807073040 |
A clarion call for interfaith dialogue in the U.S., this “splendid exposition of non-Christian approaches to God . . . encourages an increased religious literacy that . . . will contribute richness and diversity to our national identity” (Publishers Weekly) In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, religious scholar Diana Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths remains crucial in today’s interdependent world—globally, nationally, and even locally. As the director of the Pluralism Project—which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Islam—she reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism.
Meeting the Shadow
Title | Meeting the Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Connie Zweig |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1991-04-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 087477618X |
The author offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personality based on Jung's concept of "shadow," or the forbidden and unacceptable feelings and behaviors each of us experience.