Description: The Spacious Heart is a theological, pastoral and psychologically informed meditation on the emotional life. It asks how emotions are formed, how they become wounded, and how they may be healed and reordered under grace.
The book presents human emotions as part of God-given creaturely life. They are not interruptions to spiritual maturity, nor are they infallible guides. They are ways of perceiving and responding to what matters. Fear, grief, anger, shame, joy, desire, guilt, compassion and hope all belong within the complex movement of the human heart before God, neighbour, self and creation.
Drawing together Scripture, Trinitarian theology, psychology, neuroscience, attachment, embodiment, pastoral care and spiritual formation, the book offers a vision of emotional maturity that is neither numb nor self-ruled. Its hope is a spacious heart: truthful enough to confess, tender enough to love, strong enough to endure, wise enough to discern, free enough to rejoice and alive enough to worship.
Author(s) name(s): Daniel Bowen (goodreads.com/danielbowenphd)
ISBN (or ASIN): 978-1-923770-04-1
Publisher: Bowen Publishing
Publication Date Year: 2026
Publication Date Month: March
Publication Date Day: 28
Page count: 24
Format: eBook
Description:
The Spacious Heart is a theological, pastoral and psychologically informed meditation on the emotional life. It asks how emotions are formed, how they become wounded, and how they may be healed and reordered under grace.
The book presents human emotions as part of God-given creaturely life. They are not interruptions to spiritual maturity, nor are they infallible guides. They are ways of perceiving and responding to what matters. Fear, grief, anger, shame, joy, desire, guilt, compassion and hope all belong within the complex movement of the human heart before God, neighbour, self and creation.
Drawing together Scripture, Trinitarian theology, psychology, neuroscience, attachment, embodiment, pastoral care and spiritual formation, the book offers a vision of emotional maturity that is neither numb nor self-ruled. Its hope is a spacious heart: truthful enough to confess, tender enough to love, strong enough to endure, wise enough to discern, free enough to rejoice and alive enough to worship.
Language: English
Link to book page which includes the cover and other book data on a non-bookseller site:
https://www.danielbowen.com.au/books/...