Blessings That Make Us Be

"This book is a beautiful contribution to the articulation of the science of foundational human formation in the Christian formation tradition.... Dr. Muto deserves our appreciation for reawakening our interest in foundational attitudes......"

-Adrian van Kaam

Blessings That Make Us Be challenges the reader to personalize the formative values contained in the Beatitudes and to make them a dynamic foundation on which to build a life of faith. It is a book about paradox and promise, about suffering and creativity, about bondage and freedom. It encompasses the journey from birth to death via the threefold path of purgation, illumination, and union. The be-attitudes disclose a path that helps us to extend a blessing to all who cross our path, a blessing that makes us and others be most deeply who we are- persons formed in the likeness of God.