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Emerging Heart is a spiritual affirmation of the global character of our contemporary religious situation. This new spiritual movement is not directed toward the dialogue of religions, but toward the spiritual experience unfolding in the souls of individual seekers who are called to transcend confessional lines and other boundaries. The first generation to inherit the communal heritage of the world’s spiritual traditions, this global journey calls humanity to a deeper, and more integral, experience of the sacred. Emerging Heart touches the heart of a universal dimension to gather the questions, yearnings, and inner experiences of this unfolding spiritual way.
Emerging Heart Study Guide
Emerging Heart:
Global Spirituality and the Sacred
Paperback 149 Pages;
Fortress Press, 2007
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This luminously written volume is a wonderful resource for women and men to reclaim their spiritual lives. Radical Wisdom introduces the concept of via feminina (way of the feminine) and the importance of gender in the spiritual life. Drawing especially on the mysticism of Julian of Norwich and Teresa of Avila, Beverly Lanzetta lays out the contemplative process used to achieve their highest spiritual potential and to break through the "dark night of the feminine." She also investigates how unjust social and political conditions afflict women’s souls, and the spiritual disciplines women use to transform centuries-old structures of consciousness damaging to the human spirit and to creation.
Radical Wisdom Study Guide
Radical Wisdom:
A Feminist Mystical Theology
Paperback 272 pages;
Fortress Press, 2005
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40 Day Journey with Joan Chittister is designed to draw the reader into a contemplative reflection on the wisdom of Benedictine sister Joan Chittister. Each of the forty days of meditation begins with a selection from Sister Joan’s spiritual writings, followed by a Biblical passage, as well as questions for further reflection and original prayers written by the editor, Beverly Lanzetta. An international figure, Sister Joan has been recognized for her spiritual wisdom and her commitment to peace, justice, interreligious dialogue, and the equality of women in church and society.
40 Day Journey with Joan Chittister
Paperback 144 pages;
Fortress Press, 2007
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The Other Side of Nothingness offers a theology of humility sensitive to religious pluralism and to the pain of spiritual oppression. With a passionate concern for contemporary interreligious issues, Beverly Lanzetta provides insight into how mystical consciousness overturns claims of dogmatic truth. The work draws on a variety of Christian mystical texts, while also making reference to Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism and the thought of contemporary social mystics. Lanzetta illustrates how the annihilatory mystical experience draws the seeker to a place beyond a tradition's self-understanding to new dimensions of the sacred and, in some cases, to new revelation.
Other Side of Nothingness:
Toward a Theology of Radical Openness
Paperback 182 pages;
State University of New York Press, 2001
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Path of the Heart is a modern spiritual classic, because it reflects the global character of our contemporary religious situation. In Path of the Heart, Beverly Lanzetta points to the simple core of an immensely mysterious reality. She points to the human heart, that mindful center and unifying bearer of insights, compassions and joys, common to the spiritual paths of all the great religions. Beverly presents the spiritual journey in a style that is at once universal and rooted in a classical wisdom, writing with a rare combination of mature spiritual wisdom and poetic quality. She has touched a universal level to capture the stages, obstacles, progressive unfolding, and culmination of the heart’s longing.
Path of the Heart
Paperback 108 pages;
Paragon House, 1986
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More than four centuries have passed since Teresa of Avila's birth in Spain, and she is still celebrated as one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Her endearing human qualities, mystical insights, love for God, and refreshing candor all contribute to her legacy as a cartographer of the soul and a master of contemplative prayer. The Interior Castle touches the hearts of people everywhere who may never have heard of contemplation, but who long to grow closer to God. In The Interior Castle, she creates a body of mystical literature astounding in its depth and wisdom and comforting in its humanness and common sense. Introduction to text by Beverly Lanzetta.
The Interior Castle
St. Teresa of Avila
Paperback 292 pages;
Barnes & Noble, 2005.
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