Merciful Meekness: Becoming a Spirituality Integrated Person - Softcover

Walters, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809141191 ISBN 13: 9780809141197

Publisher: Paulist Press, 2005

Synopsis

Here is a clear, concise and judicious examination of the bedrock Christian moral principles of mercy and meekness that leads the author, a professor of philosophy, to affirm their essential integration if we are to become complete Christians. Dr. Walters redefines and synthesizes the Christian principles: mercy and meekness together are virtues compatible, complementary, and essential to our pathway to union with Christ, convincingly countering the Nietzschean philosophy that rejects their synthesis (one or the other is possible, but not both), as incompatible, inherently contradictory and "morally repugnant." Intended as a reference work for undergraduate students, this spare book, rooted in Scripture and Christian tradition, the thought of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Ayn Rand, and Friedrich Nietzsche, including his polemics with the Sermon on the Mount, is also helpful for the general reader in search of spiritual wholeness. It is an effective counterguide to Christianity's naysayers.

About this title

About the Author

Kerry Walters is the William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy and Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Gettysburg College. His many books include Paulist Press's Spirituality of the Handmaid, Soul Wilderness, Godlust, and Growing God. He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809141191
• ISBN 13: 9780809141197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 137