Book: Earth Crammed With Heaven: A Spirituality Of Everyday Life For too long, says Elizabeth Dreyer, the kind of spirituality taught to Christian lay people has been clerical and monastic. It has not been grounded in the ways of living actually experienced by lay people - incorporating sexuality, childraising, work, the marketplace and the earth. A major effort is being made in our day to reformulate spirituality in a way that makes sense to ordinary Christians. More than anything else, this new attitude proclaims that God is best discovered not in the withdrawal from everyday life but in the act of living it. Earth Crammed with Heaven is a pioneering attempt to articulate the paradigm shift in attitudes toward lay spirituality. It is written for persons who are on an intentional spiritual journey that has everyday existence and the entire world as its focal points. It maintains that baptized Christians do not have to change their daily activities in order to become saints. The potential for sainthood is located in the depth and intentionality of ordinary living.
In a major shift from clerical and monastic models of spirituality, this book explores the theological and practical aspects of a spirituality that has everyday existence and the entire world as its focal points.
Details of Book: Earth Crammed With Heaven: A Spirituality Of Everyday Life Book: Earth Crammed With Heaven: A Spirituality Of Everyday Life
Author: Elizabeth A. Dreyer
ISBN: 0809134500
ISBN-13: 9780809134502
, 978-0809134502
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: Paulist Press
Number of Pages: 186
Language: English