THE ONLY MIND WORTH HAVING by Fiona Gardner ( 9780718894412 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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THE ONLY MIND WORTH HAVING
THOMAS MERTON AND THE CHILD MIND

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Paperback

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0718894413

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9780718894412

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JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD

Pub. date:

29 November, 2016

Pages:

242

Description:

An imaginative engagement with Thomas Merton's view of childhood spirituality, suggesting that a rediscovery of the 'child mind' is the route to a mature relationship with God.

Synopsis:

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 belief and Jesus' command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path towards spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experience to organised innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.

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Lutterworth Press

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