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The only mind worth having : Thomas Merton and the child mind /
In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
The Lutterworth Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Rowan Williams; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to Jesus' Command, to Thomas Merton, and to Ideas about the Spirit of the Child; Part One. Understanding; 2: Infancy and Rebirth; 3: Thinking about God as Parent and God as Child; 4: The Influence of Monastics, Saints, and Theologians on Thomas Merton's Thinking on the Child Mind; 5: Child's Mind is Buddha's Mind; 6: The Shadow and the Disguise: The Adult Life of Care; Part Two. Re-Finding.
- 7: The Enchanted World, the Tendency towards Dis-enchantment, and the Possibility of Re-enchantment8: The Secret Life of the Wounded Child; 9: Finding Spiritual and Psychological Healing; 10: An Invitation to Look and Find Paradise; Part Three. Becoming; 11: Dancing in the Water of Life; 12: Poetry: The Language of the Child Mind; 13: The Divine Play of God: Play and Creativity; 14: The Internal Landscape of the Child Mind and Models of Spiritual Maturity; 15: Epiphanies of the Child Mind; Afterword; Bibiliography.