Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Reasons Of The Heart

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Like all writers of really good spiritual theology, John Dunne never betrays his subject matter with the kind of pious posturing or psycho-babble gimmickry that too often passes for spiritual writing. Dunne's theological sensitivity is alert to nuance without becoming trapped into mere jargon. His care for the heart of authentic spirituality, like Henri Nouwen's, is steady and believable. Dunne chooses the classical religious metaphor of the 'journey' and invites his readers to join him in a journey into solitude and back again into the human circle. He insists that we accept as guides in this journey the great spiritual masters of the Eastern and Western traditions. Thus in reading Reasons of the Heart, we find ourselves in the presence of some of the best insights of John's Gospel, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Buber, the Buddha, and Jesus. Dunne skillfully invites the reader to 'pass over' to a religious and theological vision of God and of our common humanity in our journey to authentic spirituality. Like Whitehead, Dunne believes that religion, above all, has to do with what an individual does with his/her solitariness. More than Whitehead, Dunne is concerned not only to have the individual enter solitariness, but also finally to leave it behind and rejoin the human community.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Release: August 31, 1989

ISBN: 0268016062

ISBN 13: 9780268016067

Reasons Of The Heart

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Like all writers of really good spiritual theology, John Dunne never betrays his subject matter with the kind of pious posturing or psycho-babble gimmickry that too often passes for spiritual writing. Dunne's theological sensitivity is alert to nuance without becoming trapped into mere jargon. His care for the heart of authentic spirituality, like Henri Nouwen's, is steady and believable. Dunne chooses the classical religious metaphor of the 'journey' and invites his readers to join him in a journey into solitude and back again into the human circle. He insists that we accept as guides in this journey the great spiritual masters of the Eastern and Western traditions. Thus in reading Reasons of the Heart, we find ourselves in the presence of some of the best insights of John's Gospel, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Buber, the Buddha, and Jesus. Dunne skillfully invites the reader to 'pass over' to a religious and theological vision of God and of our common humanity in our journey to authentic spirituality. Like Whitehead, Dunne believes that religion, above all, has to do with what an individual does with his/her solitariness. More than Whitehead, Dunne is concerned not only to have the individual enter solitariness, but also finally to leave it behind and rejoin the human community.

Language: English

Pages: 172

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Release: August 31, 1989

ISBN: 0268016062

ISBN 13: 9780268016067

More books from John S. Dunne

House Of Wisdom: Theology

Dark Light of Love

The Homing Spirit: A Pilgrimage of the Mind, of the Heart, of the Soul

The Church of the Poor Devil: Reflections on a Riverboat Voyage and a Spiritual Journey

Reading The Gospel

Road of the Heart's Desire: An Essay on the Cycles of Story and Song

A Search For God in Time and Memory

Eternal Consciousness

The Mystic Road of Love

Love's Mind: An Essay on Contemplative Life

The Way of All the Earth: Experiments in Truth and Religion

The Way of All Earth: An Encounter with Eastern Religions

A Vision Quest

Rate this book!

Write a review?