Title: CONNECTING: Healing Ourselves and our Relationships
Author: Larry Crabb
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN-13: 978-0849945298
In this volume, Dr. Larry Crabb expands on his lifelong work in the field of psychotherapy to adopt a groundbreaking, but biblical, approach to healing the deep wounds of the soul-an approach that centers around building intimate, healing mini-communities in our lives and churches. God has deposited within us the power to heal soul-disease and that power is released to do its work as we relate to each other in revolutionary new ways. In challenging, practical language, Dr. Crabb shows us how.
Title: THE SIX CONVERSATIONS: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility
Author: Healther Holleman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0802429391
Conversation is getting harder. We’re feeling more isolated. Loneliness is becoming an epidemic. The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting Again in an Age of Isolation and Incivility reflects one of the deepest passions of Dr. Heather Holleman’s heart: to connect people in loving community. Heather invites us to reimagine better conversations. Her work demonstrates how we can develop authentic community by changing our relational mindsets to become more curious, to believe the best about others, to express concern about their lives, and to share our own.
Title: CONNECT: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues
Author: David Bradford & Carole Robin
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN-13: 978-0593237090
The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. In Connect, they show readers how to take their relationships from shallow to exceptional by cultivating authenticity, vulnerability, and honesty, while being willing to ask for and offer help, share a commitment to growth, and deal productively with conflict. Filled with relatable scenarios and research-backed insights, Connect is an important resource for anyone hoping to improve existing relationships and build new ones at any stage of life.
Title: HOW TO KNOW A PERSON: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Random House
ISBN-13: 978-0593230060
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
Title: MYSTICISM IN POSTMODERNIST LONG POEMS: Contemplation of the Divine
Author: Joe Moffet
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611461626
The period following World War II is often described as a secular age, but spirituality continued as a concern for poets, as evidenced by this study. These writers look beyond conventional faith systems and instead seek individual paths of understanding; they engage in mysticism, in other words. With chapters on H.D. and Brenda Hillman, Robert Duncan, James Merrill, Charles Wright, and Galway Kinnell and Gary Snyder, this study demonstrates how these poets engage the culture of consumption in the postwar years at the same time they search for opportunities for transcendence.
Title: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MEDIEVAL MYSTICAL AND DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE
Editor: Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611462852
This collection honors Baker’s legacy as a scholar and teacher by taking a fresh approach to the most salient literary, mystical, and devotional works written in late medieval England. The contributors examine a variety of foundational texts ranging from Piers Plowmanand The Canterbury Tales to The Cloud of Unknowing and Julian of Norwich’s Showings. Their analyses offer new insights into medieval literature and culture by examining the intricacies of vice and virtue, the connections between gender and literary form, and the ethical potential of social formations.
Title: HUMANISM AND STYLE
Author: Clarence H. Miller and Jerry Harp, ed.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611460063
Clarence H. Miller’s Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the important works of two great humanists, especially their masterpieces, The Praise of Folly and Utopia. Miller shows how they were deeply influenced by the very medieval world that they rejected as they were seeking to recover vital connections to the classics and the church fathers. These essays disclose a sensibility in the work of Erasmus and More that is already attuned to many insights that have emerged with contemporary literary theory.
Title: CATHOLIC HORROR AND RHETORICAL DIALECTICS
Author: Gavin F. Hurley
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611463620
Hurley analyzes four foundational novels in Catholic horror: J.K. Huysmans’s Là-Bas (1891), Robert Hugh Benson’s The Light Invisible (1903) and A Mirror of Shalott (1907), and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist(1971). The book shows how Catholic horror fiction coheres around a commitment to dialectical thinking that seeks both to resolve and to accommodate contrasting worldviews. Through this methodology, Catholic horror literature uniquely draws readers into a contemplative and reflective mindset and invites them to confront profound existential questions about life, death, being, and the nature of reality.
