Revisioning Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction
God's beauty is omnipresent, particularly in the Scriptures, in the liturgy, and in human friendship. In Enjoying God's Beauty, Father Navone discusses how to find God in the beauty of the world and in all of God's creation.The joy of seeing the beauty of God in our lives-"the eye of love" that is Christian faith and "the look of love" that is Christian contemplation beholding the Beloved in all things-is at the heart of Christian life. In Enjoying God's Beauty, Father Navone provides an overview of the Christian experience of God's beauty in all things.Enjoying God's Beauty focuses on three approaches to the Christian experience of beauty. The first approach to enjoying God's beauty follows the assumption that wherever there is Christian life, there is Christian vision and action. The second approach revolves around the Church's Scriptures. Father Navone focuses on the Church's invitation to contemplate in its scriptural iconography true images of God, ourselves, and the world. The third approach involves our experience of life in the Church. Father Navone focuses on the theologies of beauty of Thomas Aquinas and Jonathan Edwards based on their experience within the community of Christian faith. Finally, he examines the healing and integrating Spirit of God's love within the Church and the world and how it invites reflection on the universal scope of Beauty Itself (God).Just as there is no joy without love, there is no contemplation without beauty. In Enjoying God's Beauty, Father Navone shows that the power of beauty moves us to gaze with love upon the Beloved, an act in the Christian faith better known as contemplation.
Twentieth-Century Understandings of Roman Catholic Worship Music
This volume explains that the Creator, Happiness Itself, knows truth and loves goodness and delights in beauty; consequently, whatever proceeds from the Creator, "all creation", is knowable, lovable and enjoyable. John Navone is the author of "Seeking God in Story".
Daily Reflections for Lent and Holy Week
Readings on the Eucharist, Expanded Edition
Designed for graduate and seminary students, courses on the Eucharist, as well as for professors and scholars, this volume combines Scripture, theology, and ritual elements.
The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was King Saul. Reading Israel's first king as a riddle or the epitome of Israel's experience with kingship, King Saul's Asking explores the characterization of the figure Saul, the question of the apparent silence of God, the multiple complexities of responsibility for kingship, and the readers' opportunities for transformation. It is not only an in-depth character study but also an interesting, insightful read, and opportunity for transformation.
Reflections on a Dying Life is an eminently accessible and deeply pastoral book of Christian eschatology. Father Burt uses his masterful knowledge of St. Augustine's writings to create a classically Catholic spirituality of aging. Integrating a deep faith with his disciplined reason, he gently, lovingly sculpts an Augustinian spirituality of death and resurrection. Every page brims with the humor and pathos, with the irony and insight that distinguish all of Burt's writings as precious resources for contemporary believers and thinkers. --Joseph T. Kelley, Merrimack College
Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities
Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginning
The liturgy and art forms such as music, sacred space and dance are explored in "Liturgy and the Arts". Readers will experience a genuine joy in contemplating this Catholic bishop's convincing argument that the Church cannot do without the arts.
A Theology of Liturgical Music
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