No Journey Will Be Too Long : Friendship in Christian Life Paperback / softback
by Jose Tolentino Mendonca
Paperback / softback
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In this engaging book, priest, poet, and professor Jose Tolentino Mendonca helps us to think about the meaning and relevance of friendship in various situations: in our personal lives, in the context of communities and believers, in social relationships.
Friendship is a universal experience and represents for each individual an irreplaceable process of humanization and hope.
Nevertheless, we also need wisdom, including a spiritual wisdom, which will enable us to live it more fully. "'Our friends are part of our life,' wrote Raissa Maritain.
But there is more to it than that: they widen our lives, helping to make them more luminous and authentic; they offer us lightness and depth; they purify it with the truth, leaven it with humor, and insist that it is made for the future.
Friends bear witness to our heart that there is always a journey to be undertaken and that no journey will be too long."-From the preface"This theme is explored with a rare range of reference, a deep immersion in the Word of God, this word of friendship which never ceases to summon us on the way, but also a rich understanding of the classical roots of our own civilization, a sensitivity to poetry, too often lacking in theology, and the insights that can be welcomed from other cultures.
It is a deeply civilised book, to be savored."-Timothy Radcliffe, OP
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Paulist Press International,U.S.
- Publication Date:06/01/2015
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- ISBN:9780809148974
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Paulist Press International,U.S.
- Publication Date:06/01/2015
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- ISBN:9780809148974
