Searching for GodRowman & Littlefield, 1989 - 137 pages A practical book for making good second starters in prayer, morality, choice of church, and questions of religious content, Searching for God is more concerned with choosing a good church than it is in finding the one, true church. It presents prayer as the beginning of contact with God and love as the foundation of morality. |
Contents
Honesty and the Search | 1 |
Childhoods Prayer | 8 |
Youths Prayer | 13 |
Openers | 24 |
The Tradition of Your Childhood | 33 |
Variant Forms of Prayer | 40 |
The Notion of God | 47 |
Why Go to Church? | 66 |
A Question of Content | 106 |
Conclusions | 117 |
Postscript | 120 |
Selection from The Color Purple | 122 |
Gods Grandeur by GM Hopkins | 128 |
Selection from ee cummings | 129 |
A Summary of the Law | 130 |
The Shema | 132 |
Prayer and Morality | 72 |
The Problem of Unbelief | 80 |
Conversion | 95 |
Gandhi on Love | 133 |
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Common terms and phrases
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