Reviews for Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition (Parabola Anthology Series)

The average rating for Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition (Parabola Anthology Series) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-14 00:00:00 Wayne Troy This is the best book on Christian theology and life I have ever read. It contains about 20 or so essays from a variety of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant theologians on a variety of topics - Christology, Christian Living, Prayer, Salvation, the nature of God, reading Scripture, etc. None of the readings are dry, because they are all infused with a strong sense of mysticism and experience. For me, that's what made them so powerful - the essays feel more like a recounting of a faith journey or someone's meditations on a topic than like a catechism or a persuasive text (even though all these essays do have explicit arguments). All of the writers have a strong base in textual criticism, the history of the Church, and a strong interest especially in continuity with the early Church, which makes even the writers not from my (Catholic) faith tradition powerful to me. The only thing that's a little unusual is the random Gnostic mini-chapter.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-01 00:00:00 Chris Hallum Smorgasbord of deep spiritual thinking from across the Christian spectrum, minus fundamentalist and evangelical Protestant. Not sure why the included a section about Gnosticism from Elaine Pagels. Her only claim is that they claimed to be Christians, so we should take them seriously. I enjoyed the chapters by Bede Griffiths, Thomas Merton, Kallistos Ware and Alexander Schmemmann. Just kind of hard to get into this book for me because of the diversity of perspectives. Didn't see much of a thread to tie it all together.