Spiritual Counsel in the Anglican Tradition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556354193 ISBN 13: 9781556354199

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

As the world grows increasingly complex, human beings need more, not less, good counsel for Christian living. This book reaches into the treasury of Anglican spirituality and draws out pearls of wisdom for today's needs. The Anglican tradition has shown an abiding concern for a holy living that leads to a holy dying. Spiritual Counsel in the Anglican Tradition offers earnest, practical devotion to inspire and to instruct the Christian pilgrim in the path of discipleship. Here readers will find not a general collection of spiritual writings but direct words of spiritual counsel on such crucial subjects as discipleship, vocation, scripture, sacraments, vice and virtue, money, patience, forgiveness, perseverance, marriage and family, friendship, and the natural world. Readers will also encounter many passages selected for both authoritative content and surpassing beauty. Represented in these pages are fifty Anglican authors, including Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Austin Farrer, C. S. Lewis, Samuel Johnson, William Law, Hannah More, J. B. Phillips, Michael Ramsey, Frederick W. Robertson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert South, Geoffrey A. Studdert Kennedy, Jeremy Taylor, William Temple, Evelyn Underhill, and Olive Wyon. This book takes seriously the Anglican emphasis on a form of religion that quickens the mind, forms the conscience, guides the will, and lifts the spirit.

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Review

"David Hein with Charles R. Henery have put together extracts from the writings of fifty authors of mainly an Anglican background...There is a short biography of every author which is very helpful in assessing the contribution...The book seeks to reflect the `Anglican tradition of spiritual reflection' with emphasis on spiritual responsibility and the use of the mind...an interesting book and one never knows what golden nugget may be forthcoming in the lucky dip."
--David Streater in `Churchman', Autumn 2011

The text themselves, on which a book such as this must stand or fall, are rich, challenging and rewarding reads for any who take the path of costly discipleship seriously. [...] Let those who will, come; let those who come, read. Those who read will be blessed. --Adrian Chatfield, Anvil, Volume 29 (1), September 2013

About the Author

David Hein is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College. He is the author of Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961 (James Clarke & Co, 2007) and coauthor with Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. of The Episcopalians (2005). Charles R. Henery is Director of Spiritual Life at St. John's Northwestern Military Academy and Priest-in-Charge of the Church of St. John Chrysostom in Delafield, Wisconsin. He is the editor of A Speaking Life: The Legacy of John Keble (1995) and of Beyond the Horizon: Frontiers for Mission (1986).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1556354193
• ISBN 13: 9781556354199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Hein David