by Steve Thomason | Dec 16, 2022 | Books - Spirituality, Spiritual Formation
Visual notes from Spirituality: A Brief History by Philip Sheldrake. “What is Spirituality”
by Steve Thomason | Jul 23, 2016 | Bible, Books - Spirituality
Chapter Six of Dallas Willard’s book Hearing God is titled “The Word of God & the Rule of God.” It is a fabulous exploration of how the word of God is the source of and intertwined with reality itself. He says, “The very phrase ‘still small voice’ [from the...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 6, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Personal Journal
I was reading God, Sexuality, and the Self by Sarah Coakley today. Chapter Four, “The Charismatic Constituency: Embarrassment or Riches?” reports her ethnographic research of two Charismatic congregations in a University town in England. The chapter itself...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 23, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Books - Trinity, postfoundational
Grenz, Stanley J. The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Author – Stanley Grenz Grenz traces the historical backdrop of the concept of self in the West in order...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 21, 2014 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics, Books - Spirituality, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self
Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel and Erik P. Wiebe. In Search of Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personhood. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011. The following two paragraphs provide a good flavor for this collection of essays that explore the human self in an...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 25, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Spiritual Formation
Dreyer, Elizabeth and Mark S. Burrows, editors. Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. The following Prezi is a visual way to interact with the notes that come below it. I created this Prezi during...