The Inner Spark: A Simple Guide to Christian Spirituality

In one way or another, we all become aware, or will do so, of a dimension of human life that is latent in everyone. It is like an inner spark waiting to ignite a peaceful fire of openness beyond ourselves and beyond what our limited world has to offer.

This short compendium serves to begin to fill the great thirst for spiritual experience that is growing in our technological society. It answers questions about the core of Christianity and leads the reader closer to Christ as it describes the characteristics of Christian spirituality as simply as possible for the general reader.

This book may also be useful for anyone beginning or renewing their formation in a more structured movement of Christian life.

Augustine Roberts, OCSO, has been a Trappist monk since the early 1950s. In the 1960s he was one of the founders of the first abbey of his Order in South America, later serving as its abbot. Today he is a much sought-after guide on adapting perennial monastic way of life to the needs of the twenty-first century.