Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity:

Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living explores effective ways in which Christian discipleship can grow in spiritual maturity. This thoughtful, integrative roadmap explains the journey through three interrelated perspectives, or "windows"-namely psychotherapeutic psychology, prayer and contemplation, and moral theology. The author use numerous examples from everyday life to make the reflections interesting and practical, resulting in a book that is challenging and sophisticated in its depth of thought. Book jacket.

Introduction	p. 1
Setting the Scene
Self-Fulfillment and Vocation	p. 9
Psychological Approaches to Personal Fulfillment	p. 10
Continuities and Discontinuities with the Christian Tradition	p. 16
The Way of Love	p. 18
Balancing Self-Giving and Self-Love	p. 19
Toward Psychological Wholeness
Wholeness in the Community of the Self	p. 25
The Self and Its Subselves	p. 27
Freud and Berne on Suppression of Selves	p. 30
Suppression of Selves and the Christian Life	p. 33
Kohut and Jung on Disowning Selves	p. 36
Working with Disowned Subselves	p. 39
Morally Relevant Selves	p. 43
The Spirit and the Christian's Moral Imperative	p. 45
Summary	p. 47
Wholeness, Not Perfection	p. 49
The Bind of Perfectionism	p. 50
Christ and Individuation	p. 52
Paul and the Inner Struggle	p. 62
Reconciliation of Inner Opposites	p. 63
Completeness in Christ	p. 65
Summary	p. 65
Cognitive Reframing and Perfectionism	p. 67
Guilt-Based and Shame-Based Perfectionism	p. 68
The Basics of Cognitive Therapy	p. 73
Dealing with Shame-Based Perfectionism	p. 77
Summary	p. 80
Prayer, Contemplation, and Conversion
Spirituality in the Everyday World	p. 83
Spirituality and Nature	p. 85
The Spirit of the City	p. 88
A Spirituality of Time	p. 90
Spirituality in Marriage and Family	p. 92
Spirituality and Public Life	p. 96
Summary	p. 99
Conversion to the True Self	p. 101
True and False Selves	p. 102
"Storied Prayer": Remembering, Attending, and Choosing	p. 111
Summary	p. 118
Conversion to Compassion	p. 119
Compassion in the Bible	p. 121
Compassion As Hospitality	p. 123
The Compassionate Community	p. 124
Prayer As Solidarity	p. 128
Summary	p. 131
Conscience and Responsibility
Conscience and "Contrast Experiences"	p. 135
Defining Conscience	p. 137
Conscience and Vision	p. 140
Conscience and Living a Vision for Discipleship	p. 141
Summary	p. 144
The Agape Response	p. 147
Agape	p. 148
Outka and "Universal Love"	p. 148
Post and "Communion"	p. 150
Self-Sacrifice and Oppression	p. 154
Summary	p. 155
The Virtues of Responsibility	p. 157
Aristotle on Virtue	p. 158
Aquinas on Virtue	p. 160
The Virtuous Christian	p. 163
Summary	p. 169
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 185
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