Trust Your Feelings

Learning how to make choices with Ignatius of Loyola
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78812-523-9
Verlag: Messenger Publications

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 172 g

This book is about discernment. To discern means to look for clues in your innermost experience in order to know what to do or what not to do. More precisely, discernment means paying attention to what is happening in the very depths of your heart. Christians believe that a careful reading of our deepest emotions can reveal what God is inviting us to do. The language that God speaks today is that of human experience.

The book opens with a general overview about the practice of discernment and examines the role of our heart, our intelligence and our will. It then explains how discernment can be practiced in daily life, how discernment can help in making choices, and in knowing whether something is good or bad. Then ten different emotionally charged situations are explored. Finally, the book addresses the question of whether or not discernment is reserved for Christians, and also briefly discusses discernment in a community setting. The book concludes with a reflection on discernment as a way of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sintobin Sj, Nikolaas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Über Autor(innen)

Sintobin Sj, Nikolaas
Nikolaas Sintobin is a Flemish Jesuit priest. He worked for two years as a lawyer, before joining the Society of Jesus. He studied theology in Paris and has been a teacher and chaplain in the Jesuit high schools of Paris and Antwerp. Nikolaas has been an internet chaplain for 12 years, interested in finding ways to understand and share the Gospel in our current secular and multi-religious culture: through humour, podcasts, reality TV, YouTube and blogging. 

Previous books with Messenger Publications include Did Jesus Really Exist? and 51 other questions (2020) and Trust Your Feelings: learning How to Makes Choices with Ignatius of Loyola (2022)

A Flemish Jesuit priest, Nikolaas Sintobin worked briefly as a lawyer, before he joined the Society of Jesus. He has been a teacher and a chaplain in the Jesuit high schools of Paris and Antwerp, and has specialised in Ignatian spirituality and pedagogy. Has been working for the last 10 years as an internet chaplain.