God's passionate desire: and our response

and our response

Plot

Reflecting his gifted understanding of spirituality for a contemporary audience, William Barry explores "our relationship with God and some of its consequences" in God's Passionate Desire. Presuming a passionate desire on God's part for an intimate relationship with each person, Barry groups these spiritual meditations under four headings--foundations, paradoxes, our role in God's world, and discernment and action. The meditations are enlivened by a rich array of stories, poetry and quotations from authors such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor and J.D. Salinger.