Faith the Yes of the Heart

Faith the Yes of the Heart
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Faith, the Yes of the Heart

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"A beautiful combination of careful scholarship and personal experience in a writing style that is inviting and challenging while remaining very accessible to the reader. It should be required reading in every seminary, in the primary library of every pastor, and as a companion for everyone on a serious spiritual journey." ---Bishop Reuben Job United Methodist Church ---Bishop Reuben Job United Methodist Church "This is a book to warm the heart of the reader and to give hope. By the use of striking metaphors, personal experience, and historical research, Grace Brame uses the concept of heart to build a bridge between theology and spirituality, to show the positive relationship between head and heart." ---Bradley Holt author of Thirsty for God

Description of Faith the Yes of the Heart:

"Faith is the yes of the heart...a confidence on which we stake our lives." ---Martin Luther Drawing on the Bible and the Christian tradition---including writers like Martin Luther, Henri Nouwen, Dorothee Soelle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Evelyn Underhill---Brame presents a clear and inspiring study of the Christian life. She explores such vital issues as the relationship between belief and faith, how we live what we believe, finding God in our suffering, and how God lives through us. All who seek to deepen their personal relationship with God will find new inspiration and insights in this penetrating study for seekers, college study groups, and seminary classes.

About Grace Adolphsen Brame:

Grace Adolphsen Brame earned her Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University. She teaches Christian Spirituality and Comparative Spiritualities at LaSalle University, Philadelphia, is a retreat leader living in Wilmington, Del. And is the author of Receptive Prayer.

Description of Grace Adolphsen Brame, author of Faith the Yes of the Heart:

In this rich and rewarding theology of spirituality, Grace Brame argues compellingly that "faith is not just a matter of understanding God, but of experiencing the real presence of the holy." Grounded in Martin Luther's profound understanding of faith and daring trust, and drawing from the insights of leading spiritual thinkers, Brame boldly maps the terrain of the spiritual journey for modern pilgrims. Here is a book to inspire, to give courage, to open the reader to th possibilities of trusting love.