The Only Mind Worth Having by Gardner, Fiona

The Only Mind Worth Having (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498230247)

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The Only Mind Worth Having by Gardner, Fiona

The Only Mind Worth Having

$49.00
The Only Mind Worth Having by Gardner, Fiona

The Only Mind Worth Having

$49.00
Format: Hardcover
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In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is ""the only mind worth having"" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path toward spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experience to organized innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.

Author: Fiona Gardner
ISBN-10: 1498230245
ISBN-13: 9781498230247
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2015
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Fiona Gardner
By Fiona Gardner
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Fiona Gardner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, spiritual director, and writer living in the UK. She is the author of Journeying Home (2004), The Four Steps of Love (2007), and Precious Thoughts (2011) as well as psychoanalytic books and articles. Formerly chair of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004-8) and coeditor of The Merton Journal (2008-14), she is on the board of the International Thomas Merton Society and was awarded a Louie in 2015 at the ITMS Centenary Conference.

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