Living Peace by John Sj Dear - ISBN: 9780385498289
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"To take care of each other should be our primary concern in this 21st century and Father Dear is steady on this course." —"Thich Nhat Hanh For John Dear, a Jesuit priest and respected leader of the ecumenical peace movement, the spiritual life is a combination o…

Living Peace

A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2004

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"To take care of each other should be our primary concern in this 21st century and Father Dear is steady on this course." —"Thich Nhat Hanh" For John Dear, a Jesuit priest and respected leader of the ecumenical peace movement, the spiritual life is a combination of contemplation and action, of maintaining inner peace and projecting that peace into the greater world. It is the spirituality exemplified by the lives of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr.…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780385498289
ISBN-10:0385498284
Author:John Sj Dear
Publisher:Image
Imprint:Doubleday US
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:15 December 2004
Weight:290g
Dimensions:14mm x 141mm x 210mm
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Critics Review

Advance Praise for John Dear’s Living Peace “Living Peace is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear’s journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love.”–Martin Sheen “John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement. Living Peace shows the deep spiritual roots of his commitment.”–Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief, Sojourners “Some teachers are all theory and some all practice. John Dear has the earned ability to be both. Some teachers are very orthodox and some open new ground. John Dear puts the two together knowing they are the same. This fine book is a prototype of the spirituality that is both contemplation and action, put together by a man who has first put them together in his own life.”–Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action & Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico “John Dear’s inspired journey inside and out gives us renewed hope for our own personal and public peacemaking. Living Peace is a beautiful reminder of our sacred identity.”–Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “What a splendid, hopeful handbook John Dear has placed in our hands!”–Daniel Berrigan, S.J.“In Living Peace John Dear shows we can enjoy peace only if we respect each other; and we can respect each other only if we have an appreciation of each other’s beliefs.”–Arun Gandhi, Founder-Director, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence “No matter what religious affiliation or nonaffiliation a reader might have, Living Peace is a must read. It is brimming with hope. It is a message like “living water” for the traveler lost in the desert and dying of thirst. Nobody will lose by obtaining a copy of this book.“–Johann Christoph Arnold, author of Seeking Peace From the Hardcover edition. Advance Praise for John Dear’s Living Peace “Living Peace is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear’s journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love.”–Martin Sheen “John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement.” “Living Peace shows the deep spiritual roots of his commitment.”–Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief, “Sojourners” “Some teachers are all theory and some all practice. John Dear has the earned ability to be both. Some teachers are very orthodox and some open new ground. John Dear puts the two together knowing they are the same. This fine book is a prototype of the spirituality that is both contemplation and action, put together by a man who has first put them together in his own life.”–Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action & Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico “John Dear’s inspired journey inside and out gives us renewed hope for our own personal and public peacemaking. Living Peace is a beautiful reminder of our sacred identity.”–Fred Rogers, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” “What a splendid, hopeful handbook John Dear has placed in our hands!”–Daniel Berrigan, S.J.“”“In Living Peace John Dear shows we can enjoy peace only if we respect each other; and we can respect each other only if we have an appreciation of each other’s beliefs.”–Arun Gandhi, Founder-Director, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence “No matter what religious affiliation or nonaffiliation a reader might have, Living Peace is a must read. It is brimming with hope. It is a message like “living water” for the traveler lost in the desert and dying of thirst. Nobody will lose by obtaining a copy of this book.“–Johann Christoph Arnold, author of”“Seeking Peace”” “From the Hardcover edition.” Advance Praise for John Dear’s Living Peace “Living Peace is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear’s journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love.”–Martin Sheen”John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement”. “Living Peace shows the deep spiritual roots of his commitment.”–Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief, “Sojourners”“Some teachers are all theory and some all practice. John Dear has the earned ability to be both. Some teachers are very orthodox and some open new ground. John Dear puts the two together knowing they are the same. This fine book is a prototype of the spirituality that is both contemplation and action, put together by a man who has first put them together in his own life.”–Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action & Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico”John Dear’s inspired journey inside and out gives us renewed hope for our own personal and public peacemaking. Living Peace is a beautiful reminder of our sacred identity.“–Fred Rogers, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”“What a splendid, hopeful handbook John Dear has placed in our hands!”–Daniel Berrigan, S.J.“”“In Living Peace John Dear shows we can enjoy peace only if we respect each other; and we can respect each other only if we have an appreciation of each other’s beliefs.”–Arun Gandhi, Founder-Director, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence”No matter what religious affiliation or nonaffiliation a reader might have, Living Peace is a must read. It is brimming with hope. It is a message like “living water” for the traveler lost in the desert and dying of thirst. Nobody will lose by obtaining a copy of this book.“–Johann Christoph Arnold, author of”“Seeking Peace”““From the Hardcover edition.” Advance Praise for John Dear’s Living Peace: “Living Peace is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring account of John Dear’s journey of enviable courage, boundless faith, unquestioned hope, and unconditional love.”–Martin Sheen “John Dear is a bright young light in the religious peace movement,” “Living Peace shows the deep spiritual roots of his commitment.”–Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief, “Sojourners” “Some teachers are all theory and some all practice. John Dear has the earned ability to be both. Some teachers are very orthodox and some open new ground. John Dear puts the two together knowing they are the same. This fine book is a prototype of the spirituality that is both contemplation and action, put together by a man who has first put them together in his own life.”–Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action & Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico “John Dear’s inspired journey inside and out gives us renewed hope for our own personal and public peacemaking. Living Peace is a beautiful reminder of our sacred identity.”–Fred Rogers, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” “What a splendid, hopeful handbook John Dear has placed in our hands!”–Daniel Berrigan, S.J.“”“In Living Peace John Dear shows we can enjoy peace only if we respect each other; and we can respect each other only if we have an appreciation of each other’s beliefs.”–Arun Gandhi, Founder-Director, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence “No matter what religious affiliation or nonaffiliation a reader might have, Living Peace is a must read. It is brimming with hope. It is a message like “living water” for the traveler lost in the desert and dying of thirst. Nobody willlose by obtaining a copy of this book.“–Johann Christoph Arnold, author of” “Seeking Peace”” “From the Hardcover edition.”

About The Author

John Sj Dear

John Dear is a Jesuit priest and peace activist and the author of many books including Living Peace, The Questions of Jesus, Transfiguration, Jesus the Rebel, and Peace Behind Bars. His Orbis titles include You Will Be My Witnesses, and, as editor, Mohandas Gandhi, Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings, and Henri Nouwen’s The Road to Peace. He writes a weekly online column for NCR. He lives in New Mexico.

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