A Conversation Waiting to Begin by Oliver O'donovan

A Conversation Waiting to Begin by Oliver O'donovan

In "A Conversation Waiting to Begin", Oliver O'Donovan, one of the most respected moral theologians in the UK, evaluates the current debate in the Anglican Communion and asks whether we have actually begun to ask the right questions. He argues that we need to understand how and to what extent sensibility with regard to homosexuality has emerged in speci & number 64257;c historical conditions, and how the conditions may require, as an aspect of the pastoral accommodation that changing historical conditions require, a form of public presence and acknowledgment not hitherto known? These two questions come together as a single question: how are we to understand together the particularity of the age in which we are given to attest God's works?

'This is quite simply the book on spiritual direction we've been waiting on for yearsPerhaps some of the book's freshness might lie in the author being a New Zealander.  The sub-title of the book is 'A practical introduction’ and it's almost a course in itself.  There are questions for reflection, a multitude of possible exercises and sometimes the reader is invited to think about a topic before reading the relevant section of the book.  There are also lots of verbatim transcripts of chunks of direction sessions.  While outlining the various models of spiritual direction as well as other varieties of helping relationships, Pickering details her approach which she calls 'contemplative, incarnational spiritual direction'.   Gordon Jeff, spiritual director and author

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ISBN 13	9780334042105
ISBN 10	0334042100
Title	A Conversation Waiting to Begin
Author	Oliver O'donovan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SCM Press
Year published	2009-04-09
Number of pages	144
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