Rights List Spring 2013

Believing improves living
▶ “The art of life” viewed in light of faith
▶ High profile, lively, motivating
“What What should I do with so much life, I need someone who can live, someone who w
knows ows how that goes …” ”
sings a young band in Berlin. We have lots of pos possibilities,
but perhaps have less and less understanding of how life is supposed
to “go”. Reaching for a book of advice or turning to a coach seem like obvious
solutions. As important as good advice may be, it often doesn’t penetrate
to the root of the anxiety, and the pressure to take charge of your own
life is only intensified. Do we have to master everything single-handedly?
Faith has always stood for the idea that life is more than what we can do.
Ludger Schulte shows us that through the power of faith, our relationship
to time, for example, or with our own failures and those of others take on a
different quality. Taking on this perspective is a challenge, but at the same
time also a relief, because it reminds us that living is more than just doing.
From the Contents:
The Art of Living – The Art of Arts
Wisdom – When Things Taste the Way They Are
Time – The Scarce Resource
Limits – Given and Given Up
Forgiveness – The Way to the Future
Serenity – Living from Trust
Contemplation – Fulfilled Presence
Ludger Schulte
Because Living Is More than
Doing
On the Other Power of Faith
ISBN: 978-3-8436-0321-8
Patmos
Hardback
168 pages
Dr. Ludger Schulte is a Capuchin and
professor of systematic theology at the
Academy of Philosophy and Theology in
Münster, Germany. In addition, he is a
spiritual counselor and retreat leader, and
gives numerous lectures and courses for
leading forces in economics, politics and
the church.
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