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The Transformed Heart: Spirituality, Religion, and the Struggle for Integrity
What does a mature religious faith really look like? What does it mean to embrace and follow a spiritual path and live it with personal integrity? What are the characteristics of healthy religion?
In this intensely focused exploration of the complex relationship between personal spirituality and religious belonging and practice, Zanzig proposes that the natural outcome of a lifelong process of spiritual transformation, lived with integrity, is an attraction to a mystic, contemplative spiritual path. We are all in this sense "spiritual seekers," and both the goal and the reward of our commitment to our faith is a continual and growing pull toward a contemplative experience of faith.
In this intensely focused exploration of the complex relationship between personal spirituality and religious belonging and practice, Zanzig proposes that the natural outcome of a lifelong process of spiritual transformation, lived with integrity, is an attraction to a mystic, contemplative spiritual path. We are all in this sense "spiritual seekers," and both the goal and the reward of our commitment to our faith is a continual and growing pull toward a contemplative experience of faith.
256 pages, Paperback
Published April 20, 2017
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February 10, 2018
The Story of a Lifelong Seeker
This is the tale of an ordinary man with a rich interior life. Zanzig leads the reader through his theories and model of conversion, providing illustrations throughout of "God moments" from his own life. Those of us who have met Tom may be unsurprised by the model he proposes, as he spent years speaking about it at various religious education conferences. However, there is unexpected depth in the retelling of his personal journey, recalled with gratitude as he faces his own mortality.
This is the tale of an ordinary man with a rich interior life. Zanzig leads the reader through his theories and model of conversion, providing illustrations throughout of "God moments" from his own life. Those of us who have met Tom may be unsurprised by the model he proposes, as he spent years speaking about it at various religious education conferences. However, there is unexpected depth in the retelling of his personal journey, recalled with gratitude as he faces his own mortality.
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