Description: This is In Search of the Spirit, a primer by Mary McDermott Shideler. This 272 page hardback was published in 1985. From the DJ we read, "HOW SHOULD I PRAY? WHY SHOULD I PRAY? WHAT IS PRAYER? For many people, these elementary questions are profoundly baffling. Rejecting or never known, the prescribed answers of religion yet aware of a spiritual dimension to life from which they feel disconnected, they search for an approach to and comprehension of spirituality. They are in what Mary McDermott Shideler calls the spiritual novitiate, Their response to the stirrings of the spirit are awe, surprise, wonder, curiosity, and sometimes flight. In this guide to the basics of spiritual development, the author leads the beginner from the first inklings of spiritual awakening to a degree of understanding, skill and competence. She offers a 'sharing of many ways of spiritual development, not a course of instruction. Beginning with the most elemental of all prayers-'Thou are there. I am here,'-the author deals with the over discussed and over analyzed 'religious experience' but with its bedrock. the experience of surprise. Quoting C. S. Lewis, Saren Kierkegaard, Charles Williams, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Morgan, and DAG Hammarskjold, she describes life in the spirit with simple illustrations and without formal terminology. So guided, the seeker after the spirit can make a private journey to whatever commitment is eventually to be chosen, aided along the way by the insights and experience both of the author and of many who have made the same journey through the ages." Interesting First Edition in almost new condition. Just a little wear on DJ edges and very light smudging. Shipping and handling 3.90 Media Mail to US destinations. Canadian residents 20.75 First Class mail. All others welcome but extra postage required and shipped entirely at your risk.
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Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Book Title: In Search of the Spirit : a Primer
Author: Mary M. Shideler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Spirituality, Christian Life / General
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1985
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 20 oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
