Living Spirituality - Series 3 (ePub)

The Series 3 Chapters - Selected Topics at a Glance

Chapter 1: A Catholic Guide to Reading and Interpreting the Scriptures - helpful ways to interpret and not interpret the Scriptures; Four senses of scripture; Three worlds of the text; What are your 'texts of terror'?; symbol of the Burnt Book; Patron Saints of biblical writing and exegesis.

Chapter 2: Crossing Thresholds and A Spirituality of Pilgrimage - defining Threshold Concepts and Pilgrimage; Symbol - Jesus and God as 'Divine Piano Tuners'; pilgrimage as a metaphor for dying; aboriginal and white crossings and pilgrimage; the Camino de Sydney; the Gift of Tears.

Chapter 3: Spiritual Narratives and Virtues that Give Life - interplay between Narratives and Virtues; Indigenous Narratives; Virtues and Vices; SNs & SVs from Christianity, Judaism & Islam; SV of Silence.

Chapter 4: Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues that Keep Us Close to Christ - key Disciplines and Virtues for today's world; God as an elusive Fragment and the Jewish Tzim Tzum; SD - teaching students to breathe; SDs & SVs go together - e.g. Haiku poetry with Attention and Brevity; Praying with Icons and Beauty.

Chapter 5: The Spirituality of Various Prayer Forms - what is prayer and prayerfulness?; prayer and contemplation; Jesus' prayer; the Annunciation and the Lord's Prayer; avoiding Acedia (listlessness).

Chapter 6: Spiritualities of Place: Desert, River, City and Ocean - why 'place' and the body are so crucial for SF; indigenous 'place'; Jesus, Thoreau and place; spiritualities of Australian places.

Full versions of the Preface, Afterword and Sources can be found at the author's website and ordered via his email. These are listed in the opening pages of this online book.