The church in an age of secular mysticisms : why spiritualities without God fail to transform us /
In a secular age that offers a buffet of spiritualities focused on the self and on personal transformation, leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows the difference between these reigning mysticisms and an authentic Christian view of transformation.
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| Language: | English |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group,
[2023].
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| Series: | Ministry in a secular age.
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Table of Contents:
- New mystics without God : closed world structures and memoirists
- When dogs bark during Paris lockdown : meet the magnificent Jean-Jacques
- Performing selves are so guilty : why mysticism and guilt are back
- When the everyday houses a mysticism without God
- The [bleeping] triangles are everywhere : how triangulated dilemmas and conflicts map the mysticism of a secular age
- Mystical memoirists : mapping the spiritual pathways of a secular age
- Why not all mysticisms are equal : welcome to a smooth, pornographic world obsessed with action
- Why passivity is the path
- The headless man of shadows : into negativity
- When a late-night talk leads to deconversion : or, how we keep from hating the world.