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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The ministry of spiritual direction within the churches continues to enjoy a renaissance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This resurgence of interest in the prac- tice of spiritual direction and its unique contemporary devel- opment has resulted in a number of trends. Spiritual direction training programs continue to flourish-as evidenced by more than three hundred such programs in pastoral or academic set- tings in the United States. From an ascetical discipline prima- rily practiced by men and women in Roman Catholic religious orders since the sixteenth century spiritual direction is now sought by women and men in every lifestyle within the churches. Likewise those charismatically gifted by God’s Spirit with a call to offer spiritual direction to others also include men and women in every lifestyle and across the Christian denominations. The complexities of contemporary life with its peculiar challenges to faith and the breadth of choices Christians face daily lead many to seek individual guidance and support in their ongoing life of intimacy with God and discernment about their responses to this relation- ship in the daily concerns of life and discipleship. (LL)