Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385483783 ISBN 13: 9780385483780

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1999

Synopsis

Discusses spiritual and cultural development and offers selections, with introductions, from the world's sacred texts and African wisdom

About this title

From the Inside Flap

mation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives is a very personal collection of inspirational writings gathered by the husband and wife team of Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor from more than a hundred different sources, representing the wisdom of diverse cultures throughout the world that have helped to shape their spiritual life. Introduced by a moving essay describing Susan and Khephra's spiritual coming-of-age, and informed by scores of narrative bridges by the authors explaining and annotating the selections they include, the collection spotlights the wisdom of the ages that has been at the core of the author's spiritual growth over the past twenty years.

Organized under a dozen different subject areas, from love and forgiveness to fear, death, prayer and meditation, this enthralling collection includes passages not only from the traditional sacred texts of the world's major religions--the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of Buddha-but from

Edition details

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385483783
• ISBN 13: 9780385483780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Burns Khephra, Taylor Susan L.