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Soultypes: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path

10 best books like Soultypes: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path (Sandra Krebs Hirsh): The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry, Prayer, The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself, Stalking the Divine, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love, Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality

The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry
AuthorKenda Creasy Dean
ISBN0835808580
Kendra Creasy Dean has her finger on the pulse of the spiritual side of youth ministry. i chose to read The Godbearing Life as part of my Sabbatical study. Although i found parts of this book a little outdated (published in 1998 - a lot has changed in the lives of youth with technology, etc. since then) I still...
Prayer
AuthorHans Urs von Balthasar
ISBN0898700744
Excellent book on prayer and one worth having on kindle for easy access. It didn't really clarify contemplative prayer for me, however ... well at least not very much. All the books I've read on the subject say pretty much the same things, none of which has been very helpful. Contemplative prayer is hard...
The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
AuthorEsther de Waal
ISBN0385493746
Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people.

Esther de Waal introduces...
Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life
AuthorIrwin Kula
ISBN1401301924
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
AuthorJudith Duerk
ISBN1880913631
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
Stalking the Divine
AuthorKristin Ohlson
ISBN0452286409
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )

From the cover, I see that this...
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life
AuthorMarjorie J. Thompson
ISBN0664229476
Few books in Westminster John Knox's publishing history have been so embraced and so loved as Marjorie Thompson's Soul Feast. First released in 1995, this spiritual classic continues to be a best-seller, as thousands each year accept her invitation to the Christian spiritual life. Offering a framework...
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
AuthorChristine Valters Paintner
ISBN1933495294
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life—poets...
Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love
AuthorDaniel Homan
ISBN1557254419
Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality....
Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality
AuthorJ. Philip Newell
ISBN0809137593
Very readable. Newell discusses the differences between the theologies of Pelagius and Augustine, and how the former influenced Celtic Christianity, which blended with the pre-existing Druid religion. Augstine's idea of sin being transmitted from one generation to the next through sex, [which...
Meditations with Meister Eckhart
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN0939680041
Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation-centered spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity’s potential to act divinely, and it embraces life--living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating--as...
Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World
AuthorRichard Bauckham
ISBN0801027713
This engaging study provides a new way of looking at Scripture--one that takes seriously the biblical idea of mission. Richard Bauckham shows how God identifies himself with particular individuals or people in human history in order to be known by all. He is the God of Abraham, Israel, and David and,...
The Art of Reading Scripture
AuthorEllen F. Davis
ISBN0802812694
The difficulty of interpreting the Bible is felt all over today. Is the Bible still authoritative for the faith and practice of the church? If so, in what way? What practices of reading offer the most appropriate approach to understanding Scripture? The church's lack of clarity about these issues has...
Prayer and Temperament
AuthorChester P. Michael
ISBN0940136023
I enjoyed this book and the connection between temperament and prayer style. I found the assessment of prayer preferences to be spot on. I taught parts of this book to my Sunday school class and they enjoyed being introduced to new styles of prayer. If I had any criticism of the book is that it is extremely...
Created for Community: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living
AuthorStanley J. Grenz
ISBN0801021839
With a passion for communicating to today's postmodern generation, Grenz uses the resources of the biblical message, the heritage of the church, and the thought forms of our culture as tools to construct a helpful theology that is biblical, historical, and contemporary. With the goal of offering...
The Life of Moses
AuthorGregory of Nyssa
ISBN0809121123
St. Gregory of Nyssa This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to...
The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love
AuthorRichard Dahlstrom
ISBN0801013569
The Christian life, says Richard Dahlstrom, should be guided by the intentional goal of blessing the lives of the friends, loved ones, and strangers in our midst. We are called to impact a culture that, for all the rhetoric about hope, is overwhelmingly preoccupied with personal peace, prosperity,...
Spiritual Mentoring: A Guide for Seeking Giving Direction
AuthorKeith R. Anderson
ISBN0830822100
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens . . . another. (Proverbs 27:17) As we seek God together we come to know him more deeply. That's the idea behind Spiritual Mentoring. Spiritual mentoring is an ages-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy Reese introduce in a way that fits life as we know it...
Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality
AuthorAlan W. Jones
ISBN0060641797
A leading spiritual writer recovers "The Desert Way of Believing" -- the spiritual pathway discovered by early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert that is still relevant to Christians today. Alan Jones distills the elements that made this fully orthodox way of inner transformation a...
Just Your Type: Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
AuthorPaul D. Tieger
ISBN0316845698
Discover how the secrets of Personality Type can enliven your love life! Learn the real reason why your strong quiet type has trouble expressing his feelings. Or why your social butterfly is always flirting...or why the neatnik in your life just can't leave that dirty sock where it is...or why the hopeless...
The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission
AuthorLesslie Newbigin
ISBN0802808298
Aimed at bringing contemporary concerns in mission theology to a wide-reading public, this volume flows from Newbigin's extensive experience in the mission field and from lectures developed especially to prepare men and women for missionary service. Newbigin describes the Christian mission...
Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus
AuthorMark Yaconelli
ISBN0310267773
“Contemplative Youth Ministry is refreshing rain for dry youth workers and barren youth ministries. More than the same old youth ministry tips and tricks, it gives principles and practices to soak in God’s grace, love, and power. I wish I had read it 15 years ago.”- Kara Powell, Ph.D., executive...
The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life
AuthorTony Jones
ISBN0310258103
Broaden your spiritual horizons. How has spirituality changed in the last 500, 1,000, or even 2,000 years? How can ancient approaches to faith help my relationship with God today? In The Sacred Way, popular author and speaker Tony Jones mines the rich history of 16 spiritual disciplines that have flourished...
Unseen Warfare
AuthorNicodemos the Hagiorite
ISBN0913836524
This spiritual classic was written by Lorenzo Scupoli, a sixteenth-century Venetian priest. Immensely popular in its own day, it was ranked by Francis de Sales with the Imitation of Christ. In the general rapport between Western and Eastern Christendom, it reached Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain,...
Spiritual Friendship
AuthorAelred of Rievaulx
ISBN0879077050
This short book was written in the form of a dialog between the author, Aelred (1110-1167), who was the abbot of the monastery at Rievaulx in Yorkshire, and a few of his monks. Aelred answers their questions about the nature of friendship--its benefits and pitfalls and how it is to be cultivated. The work...
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