A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World [Paperback]

John Powell (Author), Michael H. Cheney (Author)

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Publication Date: June 1995

With a healthy balance of psychology and theology, bestselling author John Powell examines twenty-four approaches to grow into the fullness of Christian living.

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Listed in Publishers Weekly as one of the top ten "Bestselling Contemporary Catholic Authors" in the United States with over 9 million copies in print.

Product Details

• Paperback: 342 pages
• Publisher: Thomas More Association (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883472945
• ISBN-13: 978-0883472941
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,958,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A Life-Giving Vision" Affirmed My Journey To Wholeness, August 2, 1998

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This review is from: A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World (Paperback)

Through the words of John Powell, my own ongoing journey to wholeness in Christ has been affirmed yet one more time. Fr. Powell shares his own personal experiences and philosophies which focus on God's love for us through Christ and His gift of the Holy Spirit. This is not a book for just Catholics, but instead for anyone who wants to have a personal walk with their savior Jesus Christ and their Abba.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These books are an APOLOGIA in evolution, May 3, 2008

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Medical Academic (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World (Paperback)

I have read all his books and I have read the media statements about sexual abuse from the 60's and 70's, that surfaced in 2002.
For the discerning reader, these writings take on a deeper meaning in the light of these recent revelations and reflect the insights individual in the process of growth as an incomplete fraction of a human being.
Masculine, joining the Priesthood at the "tender age of 17" in an era of Victorian repression, journeying thru the confusion of the liberalism of the 1960s and 70s - this is a man of his time, an man who has sinned, a man who has hurt, asked for forgiveness, a man who has grown and who has written a travelogue of his own psychosexual development as an APOLOGIA, rich in insight and throbbing painful humanity.
Who are we to judge? That the funding of overseas Jesuit Missions from the sales of his books have plumetted from the revelation of 'scandal' of old - is this not a worse outcome for humanity, when the readership of his writings and insights with proceeds of sales, has done so much good for so many.

Read his books and learn what it is to be a growing incomplete human, an Augustine and take note of Padre Pio's personal advice to this now frail and suffering elderly man.

"let those of you who have not sinned cast the first stone" and look at the "bigger picture" please.
A towering intellect. A Man for all Seasons, but above all a self confessed MAN and a frail HUMAN.
Read & BUY!.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Numinous Book, March 2, 2010

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D. S. Bornus (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World (Paperback)

Filled with colorful and beautiful illustrations that help to evoke its themes, this book is a refreshing journey that guides one in developing a worldview of love, openness, hope, joy, and growth. The emphasis is on the importance of focusing on what is good, being a "goodfinder" who looks for the positive in situations, orienting one's awareness toward the blessings of life rather than focusing on complaint and darkness. Looking toward the joy and beauty of God's world helps take our gaze away from inward focus on our problems, "dying to self" as we begin to participate with God in loving and blessing the world around us. This sustains us on a path as we move through our days into an ever-increasing awareness and gratitude, and the eventual full realization of Heaven.

I found this book to be like meditating while looking through a sunlit stained-glass window. Simply reading it was restorative. I am keeping it on my shelf to re-read whenever I need a lift.