In a Dark Wood: Journeys of Faith and DoubtDoubt is as natural an experience as faith and what theologian Paul Tillich called an indispensable component of authentic faith. In this book an extraordinary range of writers talks about the moment-often devastating-when they turned to God only to find neither God's presence nor consolation. Where once silence was filled with peace, now that silence signals only emptiness. In a Dark Wood features a diverse group of voices describing unlikely and often moving journeys toward or away from faith-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews; laypeople and religious professionals; activists, poets, politicians, and ordinary people. In addition, dozens of readings, poems, and prayers reflect on belief and doubt, on the loss of faith and its rediscovery, from the Psalmists, medieval saints, and such luminaries as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, James Baldwin and Joseph Heller, Maya Angelou and Isabel Allende, Henri Nouwen and Walter Brueggemann, Nelson Mandela and Daniel Berrigan. |
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Others believe that even at times when it seems as though God has abandoned us , God is still present . For some there was a sudden realization that the God they had depended on , trusted in , and prayed to simply did not exist .
Others believe that even at times when it seems as though God has abandoned us , God is still present . For some there was a sudden realization that the God they had depended on , trusted in , and prayed to simply did not exist .
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I struggled hard to pray and say the Daily Office . I used to say Evensong , but it was a struggle , just before i left university there was a bit of a crisis . I saw all my friends going off to exciting jobs and I felt some jealousy of ...
I struggled hard to pray and say the Daily Office . I used to say Evensong , but it was a struggle , just before i left university there was a bit of a crisis . I saw all my friends going off to exciting jobs and I felt some jealousy of ...
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Certainly in the strict Anglo - Catholic tradition to which I belonged there was the Daily Office , prayer , on your knees for the rosary , and so on . I liked the liturgy , i liked dressing up , i liked the music — you know , a good ...
Certainly in the strict Anglo - Catholic tradition to which I belonged there was the Daily Office , prayer , on your knees for the rosary , and so on . I liked the liturgy , i liked dressing up , i liked the music — you know , a good ...
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I got on well with all the staff . l was a good hospital chaplain , but I still had no spiritual life , I probably prayed more than l had been praying before because l was praying with people , rather than on my own .
I got on well with all the staff . l was a good hospital chaplain , but I still had no spiritual life , I probably prayed more than l had been praying before because l was praying with people , rather than on my own .
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But in moments of crisis I still pray . Who to and what to l don't know . l've got no concept of God though I would possibly still go so far as to say l believe in a God , but not the God of the church . I've never tried to come back .
But in moments of crisis I still pray . Who to and what to l don't know . l've got no concept of God though I would possibly still go so far as to say l believe in a God , but not the God of the church . I've never tried to come back .
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Contenido
Jane Harvey | 19 |
Loydell | 39 |
Sr Petra Boex | 61 |
Christopher Hall | 75 |
Colin Parry | 91 |
Chris Cole | 113 |
Part Three The Phoenix of Faith | 119 |
Acknowledgments | 209 |
Index of Authors | 217 |
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In a Dark Wood: Journeys of Faith and Doubt Linda Jones,Sophie Stanes Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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Página 13 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 72 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 97 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Página 199 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped : All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Página 27 - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Página 53 - THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth...
Página 73 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Página 10 - About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along...
Página 72 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | In a Dark Wood: Journeys of Faith and Doubt Theology Series |
| Editores | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes |
| Editor | Fortress Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1451413033, 9781451413038 |
| Largo | 218 páginas |
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