Free to Leave, Free to Stay: Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice
124Free to Leave, Free to Stay: Fruits of the Spirit and Church Choice
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781556358999 |
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Publisher: | Cascade Books |
Publication date: | 09/15/2009 |
Pages: | 124 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Melissa Musick Nussbaum is a regular contributor to the liturgical journals Celebration and GIA Quarterly. She is the author of six books and numerous articles. Her work has appeared in Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, and National Catholic Reporter. She is a contributor to Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time (2007).
Table of Contents
List of Devotional Interludes vi
Authors'Note vii
Introduction 1
1 Choice Nussbaum 9
2 Self-control Nussbaum 18
3 Faithfulness Bennett 27
4 Gentleness Bennett 40
5 Kindness Nussbaum 51
6 Goodness Bennett 59
7 Patience Bennett 70
8 Peace Nussbaum 81
9 Joy Bennett 89
10 Love Nussbaum 102
Conclusion 109
Bibliography 113
What People are Saying About This
"A friend of mine once said, 'You have an aisle seat in the Methodist Church.' He was right. Like many I have struggled with the question if I should stay or leave the church that formed me and that I love. So many seem to be dissatisfied with their church these days that the movement among churches is dizzying. Liberal Catholics become Episcopalians. Evangelicals turn to Orthodoxy. Nazarenes find freedom with the Methodists. But is this constant back and forth a sign of sin or can it be faithful? Does it violate the need for a vow of stability? Bennett and Nussbaum offer us a careful, biblically grounded means of discerning how we might be 'free to leave' or 'free to stay' in the context of the fruits of the Spirit. No one should jump from one church to another without spending significant time with these deeply considered reflections. Hopefully, as Bennett and Nussbaum themselves point out, this will be done in the presence of others."
D. Stephen Long, Marquette University
"Searingly honest and beautifully written, Bennett and Nussbaum have given us a book, an amazingly gentle and peaceful book, about the painfully difficult decision they made when they became Roman Catholic. This book, I believe, is destined to be a classic."
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School