Grace Can Do More: Spiritual Accompaniment and Spiritual Growth (Cistercian Studies)

by Andre Louf Ocso

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

BX2350 .L6813

Publication

Cistercian Publications (2002), 195 pages

Description

Spiritual accompaniment-patient listening and honest openness has become widespread among Christians of many traditions in recent years. Is this modern application of an ancient 'discernment of spirits' the best way for individual persons and groups of Christians to be formed as the People of God? Can anyone today accompany another person's spiritual experience without a sound knowledge of psychology? Do spiritual accompaniment and psychological therapy overlap? Can one replace the other? Should an accompanist also be a therapist, as some have suggested? Writing from his years of experience in a cistercian monastery, in which spiritual accompaniment is a living tradition, the author reflects on some first steps towards answering these questions.… (more)

LCC

BX2350 .L6813

Physical description

195 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

087907695X / 9780879076955

Barcode

31342000101997

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