{"product_id":"freedom-in-the-spirit-brendan-byrne-9780809149940","title":"Freedom in the Spirit: An Ignatian Retreat with Saint Paul","description":"This work offers a theological and pastoral discussion of key Pauline texts and topics, arranged in a format for an 8-day retreat along the lines of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola. While the format is that of two talks a day for eight days of retreat, the collection is designed to serve as an introduction to Paul's theology and spirituality more generally, with a particular focus upon those aspects that appear to be matched and stressed in Ignatian spirituality, as currently understood and practiced. Notable emphases include: Paul's sense of the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus as the outreach of divine self-sacrificial love to the world; the sense of Christ as New Adam, inaugurating in a graced \"new creation\" the original divine plan for human beings and the other-than-human world; the rich Pauline sense of as \"life in the body,\" including the Eucharistic body, in all its aspects both individual and communal; the transition from the limitations (spiritual and pastoral) of \"life under the law\" to freedom and responsibility \"in the Spirit\"; the hope for the future of humanity and the world represented by the resurrection of Jesus and the triumph of grace and self-sacrificial love. While designed in first instance for individual instruction and reflection, the talks would also serve for communal reading and discussion. Each is concluded by a series of questions designed, in either context, to promote this end. +\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan Byrne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080914994X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809149940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paulist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Brendan Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980576620799,"sku":"9780809149940","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04481f5a-66a4-4ad7-9f78-32327b7441a9.jpg?v=1683250690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freedom-in-the-spirit-brendan-byrne-9780809149940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}