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100 1 _aCoutinho, Paul.
245 1 0 _aHow big is your God? :
_bthe freedom to experience the divine /
_cPaul Coutinho.
260 _aChicago, Ill. :
_bLoyola Press,
_cc2007.
300 _axviii, 161 p.
505 0 _aHow big is your God? -- Do you have the will to experience a big God? -- Are you ready? -- The river of life is free -- God--an experience, not a theology -- Seeking truth and freedom -- Can you be religious without knowing God? -- Moving from charity to compassion -- Do you have a living relationship with God, or are you just practicing religion? -- Do you want peace-- without batting an eye? -- Four ways of relating with God -- Pleasing God, the priestly experience -- The God of brokenness, the Yahwistic experience -- The God of perfection, the elohistic experience -- The pathway of the law, the experience of Deuteronomy -- Disposable images of God -- Transcending your images of God -- Can you have a God beyond names? -- The God who is a projection of our Father image -- Prayer, a pathway to freedom and love -- Having a honeymoon with God -- You are mine -- Freedom in the midst of suffering -- Can you experience the freedom that is Christ's cross? -- Are your possessions enslaving or freeing? -- Lightening our load along the journey -- Are we enslaved by things we do not fully enjoy? -- A beginners mind -- The enslaving illusion of love -- Original sin, reconsidered -- Confession, celebration of divine presence -- Living in the here and now -- Are you part of a vertical world or a horizontal world? -- The "me" and the "I" -- Our stolen search for meaning -- What do you want on your tombstone? -- Life does not owe us pleasure, it offers us meaning -- Do you react or respond to life? -- So what is a belief? -- Bible and land -- I need the love and approval of everyone, a damaging root belief -- Others must be fair and kind to me, another root belief -- Life must make things easy for me, a third harmful root belief -- The man and the caterpillar -- God does not interfere -- When are you going to die? -- The breath of God -- Are you running for fun or for your life? -- I hope you make it, kid.
650 0 _aGod (Christianity)
650 0 _aSpiritual life
650 0 _aSpirituality.
856 4 1 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014416.html
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