A potential addition to anyone engaged in spirituality research and study, A Language for the Soul: an Experiential Dictionary of the Christian Spiritual Life by Stuart Devenish is available from the publisher as a review copy. Devenish provides the following summary of the book's contents:
At a time when spirituality is in vogue in Western culture, the onus is on the Christian Church and its teachers and spokespersons to have ready to hand a language for the interior life which conveys the substance of those deeply held and acutely felt structures of belief, confession and consecration. In A Language for the Soul: an Experiential Dictionary of the Christian Spiritual Life, Stuart C. Devenish has located 60 word-concepts capable of naming and exploring the inward human reactions to the whispering of God’s Spirit within the soul.
This volume offers Christian spiritual instructors a language for the soul uncovered from the storehouses of Christianity’s ancient living spiritual tradition. That language describes the deep soul movements that unfold in the interior life of believers in response to the Divine invitation. It presents an accessible language of the soul for use in today’s professional, educational, ministerial, and everyday life-situations
More than other resources available today, this experiential dictionary informs, enriches and intensifies the spiritual journeys of genuine disciples and seekers. The volume is tailored for seminaries, churches, schools and community settings. It has application to the training of ministry leaders, the instruction of believers, and in supporting the growing number of secular mystics in our culture who are open to merging their journeys of self-discovery with the quest for Christ-discovery.
Citation:
Devenish, Stuart. A Language for the Soul : An Experiential Dictionary of the Christian Spiritual Life. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2024.
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