Spiritual Counsel in the Anglican Tradition

As the world grows increasingly complex human beings need more not less good counsel for Christian living. This book reaches into the treasury of Anglican spirituality and draws out pearls of wisdom for todays needs. The Anglican tradition has shown an abiding concern for a holy living that leads to a holy dying. Spiritual Counsel in the Anglican Tradition offers earnest practical devotion to inspire and to instruct the Christian pilgrim in the path of discipleship. Here readers will find not a general collection of spiritual writings but direct words of spiritual counsel on such crucial subjects as discipleship vocation scripture sacraments vice and virtue money patience forgiveness perseverance marriage and family friendship and the natural world. Readers will also encounter many passages selected for both authoritative content and surpassing beauty. Represented in these pages are fifty Anglican authors including Lancelot Andrewes John Donne Austin Farrer C. S. Lewis Samuel Johnson William Law Hannah More J. B. Phillips Michael Ramsey Frederick W. Robertson Dorothy L. Sayers Robert South Geoffrey A. Studdert Kennedy Jeremy Taylor William Temple Evelyn Underhill and Olive Wyon. This book takes seriously the Anglican emphasis on a form of religion that quickens the mind forms the conscience guides the will and lifts the spirit. Probably every Christian who has led others through a crisis or rallied for a controversial issue knows what its like to stand alone. For such times as well as calmer ones Spiritual Counsel in the Anglican Tradition offers friendship with wise counselors. Their deep familiarity with the vagaries of the spiritual life carries the reader from struggle to enlightened companionship with God in Jesus Christ and to a wonderful existentially felt participation in the Communion of Saints. --Elisabeth Koenig Professor of Ascetical Theology The General Theological Seminary These pieces of thoughtful holiness touch all sides of the life of faith and will help those who use them carry divine wisdom into living practice. We owe David Hein and Charles Henery much gratitude for sifting several centuries of Anglican faith for these gems. I will use this volume for the rest of my life. --Edward Henderson Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies Louisiana State University David Hein is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College. He is the author of Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-1961 (2007) and coauthor with Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. of The Episcopalians (2005). Charles R. Henery is Director of Spiritual Life at St. Johns Northwestern Military Academy and Priest-in-Charge of the Church of St. John Chrysostom in Delafield Wisconsin. He is the editor of A Speaking Life: The Legacy of John Keble (1995) and of Beyond the Horizon: Frontiers for Mission (1986).