7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness: Enriching Your Faith by Strengthening the Health of Your Soul

by Joe Paprocki

In 7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness , best-selling author Joe Paprocki provides a prescription for spiritual health based on the rich wisdom of Catholic Tradition. Through his nondogmatic, downright inviting style of writing, Paprocki makes this book eminently accessible to non-Catholics and "seekers" as well. Recognizing that the spiritual immune system is weakened almost daily by toxic patterns and attitudes that negatively impact our ability to live in a harmonious relationship with God and others, Paprocki offers seven enduring and reliable strategies for achieving spiritual wellness. After identifying practical ways to integrate each of these strategies into daily living, he describes seven persistent dangers to our spiritual well-being and how these dangers manifest themselves in our lives. At its core, 7 Keys to Spiritual Wellness helps us see the Christian faith not as a collection of rules and doctrine, but as a spiritual path--a path whose guideposts for spiritual wellness are sure to lead us to a more meaningful life and to a much richer experience of our faith.

Genres: Nonfiction, Catholic

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent primer for those new to "reading" the Bible. I teach for the Catholic Biblical School and many first year students need some if this very basic 'mapping' of the Bible.

Also, Paprocki does an excellent job in capturing the essence and usefulness of The Interpretation of the Bible from the Pontifical Biblical Commission. (This is a resource that we require students to read gin into their third or fourth year and is really critical in their scholarship, but some of it would be much better to be introduced earlier on in the four year program.)

[Claudia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good ideas regarding ways to approach setting up a Bible study group

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great adult Catholic introduction to the Bible! Simple, helpful historical information, step by step, and has neat cartoons and notes to keep it light. It assumes you are a Catholic, and need some help reading the Bible :)

Give you a broad overview of the bible, and I love that he helps you navigate the bible right away. There are bookmarks you can cut out in the back. Each bookmark is for a division in the Bible (Pentateuch, History, Wisdom, Prophets, Gospel, Acts, Letter, Revelation) and the author makes bullet points on each bookmark that describe the main stories of that section.

The only drawback is that there's not as much mention of the beauty of the writings in the Bible, and what they means. But if you are someone who gets lost in the writing class jargon about the beauty of writing, this will help because this book will not bog you down in it.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is really only useful if you have NO idea how to read/study the Bible. As in, you don't know what 1 Cor. 13:1-5 means. If you've had any background in "how to read the Bible", or you went to Catholic school, this is going to be all old news to you.

[Angela9600 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked his other book more- probably because I am fairly familiar with the bible these days.

[Paula Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought the ebook version and it has helped me tremendously with understanding more how the Bible is layered for us to read and understand better.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and entertaining while giving truths about the Bible and how to read and get information from it.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is designed to help Catholics better understand the Bible and how to best approach the Bible.

[Bonnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great instruction and insight for a Catholic learning to read and interpret the Bible.