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The Four Conversions:
A Spirituality of Transformation
Author: David Couturier
ISBN: 978-1-929569-49-6
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 241
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: The Victoria Press
Price: $25.95 In Stock
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Other titles by David Couturier:
The Fraternal Economy: A Pastoral Psychology of Franciscan Economics
Book Description
For far too many Christians, conversion is reduced to just a personal change of mind and heart. This leaves our relationships and institutions out of the Gospel call to holiness. This book proposes metanoia as four mutually enriching phases of conversion – personal, interpersonal, ecclesial and structural. The Four Conversions demonstrates the theological and psychological connections between personal change and family development, congregational development and social transformation. Integrating the latest insights from Trinitarian theology, family systems theory, clinical psychology and organizational studies, this work will give readers a deeper appreciation for the Church’s tradition of faith development.Praise for the Book
Engaging, illuminating, and sobering, Couturier’s four-dimensional approach to understanding Christian conversion is a compelling and constructive response to the contemporary disciples’ question: ‘What must we do?’~ Margaret Eletta Guider, OSF
Associate Professor of Missiology,
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry By attending in this book to the structural dimensions of conversion, Fr. David Couturier corrects the flaw that afflicts most books on the spiritual life.
~ Fr. Robert Dodaro, OSA
Professor of Patristics,
President of the Augustianum Patristic Institute in Rome