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In the Eyes of Your Creator: Truly Valuing Yourself and Others
Many of the ills of our society can be traced to the sense of worthlessness that afflicts so many people today. If we only understood in the depths of our being how valuable we are in the eyes of our Creator, we could learn to obey Christ s commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves. Priest and counselor David Fontes marries the best insights of psychology with those of the spiritual tradition of the Orthodox Church to point the way toward this understanding.
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256 pages, Paperback
First published July 7, 2015
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November 27, 2019
I am not Orthodox, but this book was very inspirational. I loved the abundant use of Scripture. As a born again Christian, I was uplifted by this book. It encouraged me greatly.
September 20, 2024
I truly wish I could read this book once a day to be reminded of my value in Gods eyes. It is so easy to forget when living in the world.
August 4, 2015
There can be little doubt that this book will help elucidate areas of the Orthodox faith that may seem counter to a healthy self-value—Like the difference between the healthy self-hatred of the Fathers (hating the carnal or false-self) and unhealthy self-hatred of the despairing (the self-hatred that leads to despair, self-harm, or the taking of one's life).
There are passages in this book that may very well bring tears to your eyes—such is the case when he talks about the human person and the transfiguration.
However, it seems to me (though I am sure he did not do this on purpose) that he re-interprets the entire Orthodox tradition of Theosis, and the pathway to it, as a pathway we should travel in order to learn how valuable we are in God's sight. Of course, we will learn this as we travel, but we should travel for the purpose of uniting ourselves to God, not to learn how valuable we are. The book seems to put us at the center instead of God.
Full review to come on BenCabe.com/blog
There are passages in this book that may very well bring tears to your eyes—such is the case when he talks about the human person and the transfiguration.
However, it seems to me (though I am sure he did not do this on purpose) that he re-interprets the entire Orthodox tradition of Theosis, and the pathway to it, as a pathway we should travel in order to learn how valuable we are in God's sight. Of course, we will learn this as we travel, but we should travel for the purpose of uniting ourselves to God, not to learn how valuable we are. The book seems to put us at the center instead of God.
Full review to come on BenCabe.com/blog
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