Journey into Love: From Fear to Freedom - Softcover

Merrill, Nan C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826419046 ISBN 13: 9780826419040

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

Synopsis

The Journey to Jerusalem is literal, metaphoric, and archetypal. It is a believing and a discovering of Jesus' story as one's own, a process of internalizing various roads (and Roads) described in the New Testament. These are all paths to personal enlightenment, what Nan describes as a reaching to LoveConsciousness."The Road to Damascus" (Saul/Paul) involves the breaking down of the ego to receive Grace.

"Preparation" is autobiographical in nature, a gaze within to understand who each of us is.

"The Roads into and through the Wilderness" are studies of the self through the works of John the Baptist and then Jesus in the wilderness. As Jesus was tempted by Satan, we must understand what really ought to motivate, how to put temptation behind us.

"The Road to Jericho" is an awakening to what a good neighbor is by looking at the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and how we might act accordingly.

The final "Road to Jerusalem" leads to pain and the cross, but is also the road to communion with all of Creation.

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About the Author

Nan C. Merrill is the author of Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness, which has sold 50,000 copies and is in a tenth-anniversary edition. Her widely used Meditations and Mandalas: Simple Songs for the Spiritual Life is also published by Continuum. Merrill founded the monthly newsletter Friends of Silence, served with urban parish teams, facilitated retreats, and was engaged in prison ministry for more than thirty years. She passed away in January 2010.

Review

"Nan Merrill not only talks about the spiritual path, she shares it in its most intimate details. Be with her as she re-introduces love as the primary theme of theology. Follow her allegory of the sevenfold spirits. Come home with her when you are ready. You will not regret it".-Walter Wink, Professor Emeritus, Biblical Interpretation, Auburn Theological Seminary

"Nan lives up to her name (Nan means grace) in her book Journey into Love. It can be read for nourishment, but is best held out in front of the reader as an example of a contemporary elder sharing her journey into Love Consciousness. A mother, a writer, and a woman who stared down her fears and now smiles through the text, she makes it seem natural and fitting we enjoy life: this lifetime."- Mary Margaret Funk, O.S.B., author of Humility Matters, Thoughts Matter, and Tools Matter

Negative review in Christian Marketplace.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0826419046
• ISBN 13: 9780826419040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216