New Adam: The Future of Male SpiritualityFortress Press - 175 páginas With its deft explanations of male psychology, its profound encounters with five biblical "texts of terror" for men, and its pioneering of new ways in men's prayer and men's groups, Culbertson's book enables men to come to terms wtih issues of justice, friendship, sexuality, and love in their lives. His book will help men to craft a new spirituality, to achieve a new integrity and, ultimately, to create a new identity. |
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The New Adam Tradition | 26 |
The Child Is the Father of the Man | 43 |
The Sins of the Fathers and an Innocent Generation | 60 |
A Love Surpassing the Love of Women? | 75 |
Friends Associates and Lovers | 91 |
Masculine Stumbling Blocks to Prayer | 109 |
Praying in Circles | 126 |
The Future of Masculine Spirituality | 153 |
Bibliography | 168 |
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Página 131 - If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
Página 82 - Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them ; and likewise all the men that were with him : and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel ; because they were fallen by the sword.
Página 29 - But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Página 115 - Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man, — never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps and measles, and hooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.
Página 61 - Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old bear?
Página 47 - I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king ; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid. For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
Página 62 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot : for she said, Let me not see the death of the child.
Página 62 - And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water ; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Página 46 - Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead : for Amnon only is dead 34 But Absalom fled.