The Contemplative Response: Leadership and Ministry in a Distracted Culture
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Following on from the success of The Contemplative Minister, Ian Cowley offers new insight and greater depth for church leaders in a distracted world. Ian emphasises that the true self finds peace in resting in the love of God. He addresses the compulsions of our consumerist culture and calls those in leadership to an inner life of truthfulness, self-knowledge and self-discipline.
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- Offers new insight and greater depth for church leaders in a distracted world.
- Emphasises that the true self finds peace in resting in the love of God.
- Calls those in leadership to an inner life of truthfulness, self-knowledge and self-discipline.
- Part One: Choose this day whom you will serve
- 1 The restless heart
- 2 The pull of the ocean
- 3 The real God
- Part Two: The false self: the compulsions and the remedies
- 4 Discovering the false self
- 5 Acquire
- 6 The remedy: contentment
- 7 Achieve
- 8 The remedy: detachment
- 9 Indulge
- 10 The remedy: self-control
- Part Three: The contemplative heart
- 11 Contemplation: the way to communion with God
- 12 Truthfulness and self-knowledge
- 13 Learning to live in the present moment
- 14 Contemplation and action
- Title: The Contemplative Response: Leadership and Ministry in a Distracted Culture
- Author: Ian Cowley
- Publisher: Bible Reading Fellowship
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780857466563, 0857466569
- Resource ID: LLS:CNTMPLTVRSPCLTR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-03T17:38:29Z
Ian Cowley is an Anglican priest who has served in parish ministry in Natal South Africa, Sheffield, Cambridge and Peterborough. From 2008 to 2016 he was Coordinator of Spirituality and Vocations in the Diocese of Salisbury, where he set up and developed the Contemplative Minister programme. He is the author of five books on spirituality, discipleship, and the local church. Some of his works include A People of Hope (Highland, 1993), Going Empty Handed (Monarch, 1996) and The Transformation Principle (Kingsway, 2002). To read Ian’s lockdown blog, ‘Wild times and the love of God’, click here.