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Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his deep goodness, but often those moments are fleeting. We get distracted by life. Our awareness and understanding fade while our longing to experience God that way again increases. In these pages we can begin to fill that longing by developing our capacity to receive and respond to God's love. Book jacket.

Here Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, both experienced leaders in spiritual formation, introduce us to people from the past who have known God deeply. Each person points the way to one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God that have been developed throughout Christian history. The chapters are divided into sections, each segment surrounding a key figure and concluding with a reflection and prayer.

Preface	p. 9
Introduction: Recovering the Seven Paths of Christian Devotion	p. 11
The Right Ordering of Our Love for God	p. 17
The Quest for Perpetual Communion with God Origen of Alexandria	p. 20
Loving God with Our Body, Mind and Heart Augustine of Hippo	p. 26
The Desire for God and the Ascent of Pure Love Bernard of Clairvaux	p. 34
The Right Ordering of Body, Mind and Heart Blaise Pascal	p. 42
The Spiritual Life as Journey	p. 51
From Deadly Thoughts to Godly Virtues Evagrius of Ponticus	p. 54
Weaving Life into a Meaningful Whole	p. 65
The Pilgrim's Path to God	p. 75
Finding Our Home with God	p. 81
The Recovery of Knowledge of God Lost in the Fall	p. 87
Learning to Love and Know God Fully	p. 91
Growing in the Freedom of God's Love	p. 100
Knowing God and Knowing Ourselves	p. 112
Intimacy with Jesus Christ	p. 121
The World as Our Cloister Francis of Assisi	p. 124
The Fullness of Life in Christ	p. 132
Imitating Christ	p. 141
Guided by the Mysteries of Christ Ignatius of Loyola	p. 149
The Right Ordering of Our Experiences of God	p. 159
Enfolded in the Goodness of God Julian of Norwich	p. 164
Learning to Follow the Light of Christ Within	p. 176
The Role of Our Religious Experiences in Knowing God	p. 184
Making Sense of Our Experiences of God	p. 196
Action and Contemplation	p. 203
Balancing the Active and Contemplative Life	p. 205
Learning to Live by a Rule Benedict of Nursia	p. 217
Living the Active Life Contemplatively Gregory the Great	p. 226
Divine Ascent	p. 237
Loving God Through the Threefold Way	p. 239
The Cloud of Unknowing: The Sharp Darts of Longing Love	p. 249
Entering Christ's Mansion Teresa of Avila	p. 261
Illuminating the Dark Night John of the Cross	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 281
Pre-Christian Influences on Our Life with God	p. 285
Christian Women and Spirituality	p. 297
The Contribution of the Eastern Orthodox Church	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 330
Notes	p. 331
Index	p. 348
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Longing for God

Longing for God

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