Beyond Piety: The Christian Spiritual Life, Justice, and Liberation
Ebook
Overview
Who doesn’t want a liberated life? Jesus offers us liberation as we grow in a Christian spiritual life. But first we need to liberate our concept of Christian Spirituality from ideas that relegate it to Church on Sunday, new age self help, devotional or ascetical practices, or fundamentalist aggression. Traditionally, Christian spirituality liberates Jesus’ disciples from personal sin and helps them to challenge sin’s social consequences so that once liberated, they will work to liberate others. Christian spirituality (living the Gospel) brings good news for the poor, liberty for the captives, recovery of sight for the blind, and freedom for the oppressed. This is what Jesus came to do, and this is what we as his disciples are called to do as we live our Christian callings in the world. Whether we are at home, work, or play we are called to be Christian. Beyond Piety invites readers to grow in their understanding of what it means to be a disciple of Christ. More than a book on Franciscan or Hispanic Spirituality, this book is about the Christian Spirituality all Christians are called to live. It is about our human and Christian identity and the God we believe in. It is about getting to know the Word of God and letting that Word get to know us. It is about worship and religious devotion and moving beyond piety to Christian action. It is about the call to justice and liberation.
"Beyond Piety reminds us that there’s more to living our
faith than simply saying prayers and going to church. Gilberto
Cavazos-Gonzalez reminds us that Christ has come to set us free and
once freed, we are set on a mission to do for others exactly what
Christ has done for us. What a gem of a book!"
--Albert Haase, OFM
author of Coming Home to Your True Self and This Sacred
Moment
"Cavazos-Gonzalez has written a masterful book--easy to read while
extraordinary in its insightful reflections on Christian
spirituality as socially engaged life journey. From the Bible to
Vatican II, through patristic and medieval authors to Gabriel
Marcel, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Ignacio Ellacuria, to Carmen
Nanko-Fernandez, and Stephen Bevans, the author weaves scholarship
with lived experience and social context to offer us a must-read
introduction to Christian spirituality. This is a book that seduces
and embraces."
--Orlando O. Espin
Professor of Systematic Theology, University of San Diego
Product Details
- Title : Beyond Piety: The Christian Spiritual Life, Justice, and Liberation
- Author: Cavazos-González, Gilberto, OFM
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781621895015
Friar Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez, OFM, is a member of the Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Assistant Professor of Spirituality at the Catholic Theological Union at Chicago. He is also the President elect of the Academy for Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS) and author of Greater than a Mother's Love: The Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi (2010).