{"id":1560,"date":"2023-04-21T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:00:41","slug":"about-a-grammar-of-holy-mystery-classical-christian-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"About A Grammar of Holy Mystery: Classical Christian Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>by Larry Hart, D.Min.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Wipf &amp; Stock Publishers<\/strong><br \/><br \/><em>A Grammar of Holy Mystery<\/em> is described editorially as a provocative and insightful book about <em>Classical Christian Spirituality<\/em>. It is about mysticism as a first-hand encounter with the presence of God: unfathomable, fulfilling and mysterious. It is about the transforming truth lived by saints, sages, and mystics, found in Christ, taught in Scripture, and passed on as a sacred trust through the ages. It shows a way out for those either traumatized by harsh churches, or turned off by superficial denominations. It shows a way of faith that renews the mind, restores the spirit, and gladdens the heart.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>To see beauty is to <\/strong><br \/><strong>see the face of God<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2013\u2013From A Grammar of Holy Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong><br \/><strong>Among the questions <em>A Grammar of Holy Mystery<\/em> reflects on, both explicitly and implicitly, are:<\/strong><br \/><br \/>\u2022 How would you know if you actually met a Christian?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 In the twentieth century is it possible to be a real Christian\u2013\u2013a saint, sage, or mystic?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 Is Christianity a theory, or a numinous Reality to be felt, tasted, lived?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 What does Jesus have to do with sustainable wages, racism, health care, ecology?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 Is the Bible an inflexible rule book, an academic puzzle, a collection of reassuring fables and metaphors, or is it a reliable spiritual guide?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 Is the Christian way simply the Way; and, therefore universal and classical?<br \/><br \/>\u2022 Why on earth would anyone today want to be Christian?<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>To desire God is<br \/>the greatest passion.<br \/>To seek God is<br \/>the greatest adventure<br \/>To find God is<br \/>the greatest discovery<br \/>\u2013\u2013 From A Grammar of Holy Mystery<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>Order on line via Amazon, the publisher (Wipf and Stock), or other distributors.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Larry Hart, D.Min.Wipf &amp; Stock Publishers A Grammar of Holy Mystery is described editorially as a provocative and insightful book about Classical Christian Spirituality. It is about mysticism as a first-hand encounter with the presence of God: unfathomable, fulfilling and mysterious. It is about the transforming truth lived by saints, sages, and mystics, found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakeningheart.spiritual-christian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}