GOD-centric Interior Spiritual Disciplines:

To live in a good and fair God of love

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Ch. 6 Cool Down: Reading for Study

"Fides quaerens intellectum"[“Faith seeking understanding”]

~ St. Anslem (Roman Catholic)

  GOD-centrics believe that we come closer to knowing God by trying to better know God. God did not give us brains so we could avoid using them. The GOD-centric process is to continually expand and deepen our capacities to know God in our hearts, souls, and minds. The more we increase our capacities to understand, the more we can understand and the more we can understand, the greater our capacities to understand: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." (Henry David Thoreau, Walden) Here are the ten books of wisdom that most helped awaken me on my journey towards our good and fair God of love:

1. Conscience: Its Freedom and Limitations W. C. Bier (editor)

2. Stages of Faith Development: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning by James Fowler

3. The Miracle of Dialogue by Reuel L. Howe

4. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

5. Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. Christianity and the World Religions by Hans Kung

7. How to Meditate by Lawrence LeShan

8. Stories of God by Fr. John Shea

9. The Religions of Man by Huston Smith

10. Faith & Belief by Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Roman Catholic Scholasticism:

• The Basics of Philosophy: Scholasticism
• Jacques Maritain Center: Scholasticism