Chittister, Joan. Additional Author mixed material bibliography Grand Rapids William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. c2003 monographic en English

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xiv, 111 p. ; 24 cm. Everyone goes through times of pain and sorrow, depression and darkness, stress and suffering. It is in the necessary struggles of life, however, that we stretch our souls and gain new insights enabling us to go on. Building on the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with God and on the story of her own battle with life-changing disappointment, Sister Joan Chittister deftly explores the landscape of suffering and hope, considering along the way such wide-ranging topics as consumerism, technology, grief, the role of women in the Catholic Church, and the events of September 11, 2001. We struggle, she says, against change, isolation, darkness, fear, powerlessness, vulnerability, exhaustion, and scarring; and while these struggles sometimes seem insurmountable, we can emerge from them with the gifts of conversion, detachment, faith, courage, surrender, limitations, endurance, transformation, and (perhaps most important) hope. Each of these struggles and gifts is discussed in a chapter of its own. Hope Suffering 155.510802812163 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 155.51 Chi s E07005815 Non Fiction 155.51 Chi s 61MIHSMkBhL._AC_UY218_.jpg 2678 2003-01-06 00:00:00 2024-09-23 17:09:58 machine generated