NOTES
Introduction
Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin (New York: Penguin Books,1961), 21.
Blaise Pascal, Penses, (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 75.
Chapter 1
Gregory A. Boyd, Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,2010), 14647.
Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See (New York: Crossroad,2009), 105.
Richard J. Foster, introduction to Sacrament of the Present Moment, by Jean-Pierrede Caussade, trans. Kitty Muggeridge (San Francisco: HarperOne, 1989), xiii.
Ronald Rolheiser, The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God (NewYork: Crossroad, 2004), 22. Emphasis mine.
This quote is attributed to twentieth-century Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing.
Leighton Ford, The Attentive Life: Discerning Gods Presence in All Things (DownersGrove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 9.
Ford, Attentive Life, 102.
Boyd, Present Perfect, 147.
Chapter 2
Jim Manney, God Finds Us: An Experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. IgnatiusLoyola (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2013), 21.
Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 3.
Ibid., 32.
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 29.
Chapter 4
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This concept of core longings, and the specific list included here, is shaped bythe work of Dr. Anne Halley, adjunct instructor in the doctoral program at AshlandTheological Seminary. Her work on developmental healing is recognized as foundationalto healthy psychological and spiritual development. Information on seminars and classesDr. Halley offers is available on the Ashland Theological Seminary website.
Henri Nouwen, Jesus: A Gospel (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001), 133.
Siang-Yang Tan, Rest: Experiencing Gods Peace in a Restless World (Vancouver,BC, Canada: Regent, 2000), 2122.
Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World, expanded edition (Nashville: OliverNelson, 1985), 16465, quoted in Tan, Rest: Experiencing Gods Peace, 22.
Chapter 5
Gregory A. Boyd, Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 26.
I recommend three books that will reinforce this point: Roots of Empathy by MaryGordon, Mindsight by Daniel Siegel, and Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson.
Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections: A Christians Character before God, ed.James Houston (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1996), xvi.
Edwards, Religious Affections, 1011.
A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Camphill, PA: Christian Publication, 1982), 9.
Jim Manney, God Finds Us: An Experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. IgnatiusLoyola (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2013), 17.
Chapter 6
David Benner, Spirituality and the Awakening Self: The Sacred Journey of Transformation(Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2012), x.
Jim Manney, God Finds Us: An Experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. IgnatiusLoyola (Chicago: Loyola Press, 2013), 25.
Gregory A. Boyd, Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 25.
Ibid., 27.
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