Meditations on the Mount: A Daily Guide to Spiritual Living [Hardcover]

Ed Townley (Author)

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A former actor and playwright, Unity Church minister Townley explores the significance of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount as a powerful tool for spiritual awakening. He considers some of its troublesome aspects in terms of the Hebrew peoples' tendency to receive spiritual wisdom as law. We hear in the beatitudes an echo of the ten commandments: "Blessed are theyfor they shall" can be misconstrued as karmic laws of cause and effect, but Townley points out how these phrases suggest the external appearance of interior states that can't be fully understood by ordinary consciousness but from a spiritual point of view. This is an insightful, nondenominational approach to an often-quoted and enigmatic biblical passage.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1 Ed edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888054166
• ISBN-13: 978-1888054163
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,292,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simply profound....., July 29, 2000

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Carol Simpson (winston salem, nc United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meditations on the Mount: A Daily Guide to Spiritual Living (Hardcover)

...as a guide for daily meditation, this book engages you in an inner dialogue that takes you exactly where you need to be everyday...And, no matter how many times you read the same passage, its always somewhere different..Rev. Ed shares his own spiritual healing with his unique sense of humor and you look forward to the 20 minuites you spend each morning meditating on the individual passages and reading his commentary...Different from all the others..and thats a good thing!

2.0 out of 5 stars A Poor Imitation, July 24, 2007

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Marylin M. Butorac "aunti em" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meditations on the Mount: A Daily Guide to Spiritual Living (Hardcover)

....of Ernest Holmes wonderful interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount. Pompous and egotistical.

5.0 out of 5 stars If You Only Read (or attend) One Sermon This Year. . ., March 30, 2005

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Michael S. Waren "schoeder" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meditations on the Mount: A Daily Guide to Spiritual Living (Hardcover)

I start this review by alerting you that I am biased. I attend Unity in Chicago where Reverend Ed Townley ("Rev. Ed") is a senior minister. I also took his class last year on this The Sermon on The Mount using this book. However you don't need to attend Unity or be familiar with Unity teachings to appreciate this book. Regardless, this is a book everyone could benefit from and I understand there some talk in the works to release sometime in the near future. This is not book where you simply read and put back on your book shelf; it is a book which should in my opinion; re-read and studied, as a daily guide, Meditations are listed with every segmented lesson as Rev. Townley goes through and interprets the words of Jesus. It is warm and refreshing look at the words of Jesus and in today's fast-paced confused, chaotic world who can't appreciate that? It appears that the world is slowly awakening to their Spiritual potential and this book is an excellent place to start. In closing the opening words of Jesus come back to me time and time again "Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is in the kingdom of heaven." Spirit does not discriminate this is for everyone if you are willing to read, listen and are open to lovingly translation of the Sermon.