Only If You Wrestle: A School for Prayer and Reflection
Language: English
Published by The Columba Press, 2002
- Softcover
- Used
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Only If You Wrestle: A School for Prayer and Reflection by Peter Hannan SJ (The Columba Press, 2002) ISBN: 9781856073417 Condition: Good (which in the language of Crappy Old Books means: the cover has definitely seen things, the spine may or may not have developed a slight lean from years of being squashed between a Dictionary of Saints and a self-help paperback from the ?90s, and there?s a faintly ecclesiastical whiff of mystery about where it?s been ? possibly a parish library, possibly a bedside table of someone who once considered becoming a monk but ended up working in IT). This is not your everyday prayer manual. Fr Peter Hannan SJ doesn?t hand you neat little instructions for five minutes of calm breathing before bed. Oh no. He wants you to wrestle . With God. With yourself. With silence. With the kind of questions that keep you awake at night: Am I praying right? Does God actually listen? Why is my cup of tea going cold while I stare into space trying to be ?contemplative?? Hannan, a Jesuit (and they know a thing or two about intellectual and spiritual gymnastics), invites you into what he calls a ?school for prayer and reflection.? This isn?t Hogwarts for mystics ? there are no capes or wands ? but there is the challenge of discovering that prayer is less about floating serenely on clouds and more about hanging on while the divine Mystery occasionally throws you to the mat. It?s earthy, gritty, deeply human spirituality with a dash of Irish wit. The book is from 2002, so it?s been quietly waiting around for two decades, hoping someone would wrestle with it again. Our copy is Good , which means: no theological graffiti in the margins, no missing pages (we checked), though it might look slightly world-weary ? a bit like Jacob after his famous all-night bout with the angel. If you?re tired of fluffy ?how to pray in three easy steps? books and instead want something that takes faith, doubt, and life seriously ? while giving you a spiritual nudge to stop avoiding the hard questions ? then this is your bout. Just remember: you don?t get to win, you only get to wrestle. Perfect for: the spiritually restless, the Jesuitically curious, or anyone who has ever sighed at their bookshelf and thought, ?What I really need is a no-nonsense guide to grappling with God that looks like it?s already survived a few theological arm-twists itself.? THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE. …
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- Title
- Only If You Wrestle: A School for Prayer and Reflection
- Author
- Peter Hannan SJ
- Publisher
- The Columba Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1856073416
- ISBN 13
- 9781856073417
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