Befriending Our Desires

by Philip Sheldrake

Book Overview

Endorsements: Sheldrake catches your attention with his adept exploration of the intimate connection between desire, even sexual desire, and holiness. --JKeith J. Egan, Professor of Theology, Saint Mary's College and the University of Notre Dame He helps us understand that when we realize that our heart's longing is for God, we realize that our desires are not enemies but friends of spiritual life and growth. --JJohn S. Dunnes, CSC, author of Love's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877935378
• ISBN13: 9780877935377
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Quite different

This book has changed the way I pray. Step by step it has been leading me through a process of discovering what it is I really want - and the wanting beneath the wanting. What is holy and of God is not remote, but close, very close, and part of that wanting. The blurbs on the back of the original hardcover dust cover are far more eloquent; even better, they're true. "Magnificently articulates a God and a spirituality characterized by passion desire, vulnerability and eros." " ..helps us to understand...that or desires are not enemies but friends of spiritual life."

Befriending Our Desires

This book is absolutely wonderful. If you know Ignatian Spirituality or not it will take you to the depths of our desires and those of God and how they become one. The area of sexuality is treated with great reverence and beauty. I would recommend it to anyone serious about spiritual growth and understanding.