Authors: Gustavo Gutierrez, Matthew J. O'Connell (Translator), Henri J. M. Nouwen
ISBN-13: 9781570754968, ISBN-10: 1570754969
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: Anniversar
After twenty years, We Drink from Our Own Wells remains a classic expression of Latin American spirituality by a pioneer of liberation theology. Starting from St. Bernard of Clairvaux's counsel to root spirituality in one's own experience, Gustavo Gutierrez outlines the contours of a spirituality rooted in the experience of the poor and their struggle for life. His aim is to reflect on the contemporary "road to holiness" -- the passage of a people "through the solitude and dangers of the desert, as it carves out its own way in the following of Jesus Christ. This spiritual experience is the well from which we must drink. From it we draw the promise of resurrection."
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Foreword | ||
Preface to the Anniversary Edition: Our Methodology is our Spirituality | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | How Shall We Sing to the Lord in a Foreign Land? | 7 |
1 | In a Foreign Land | 9 |
2 | The Song of the Poor | 19 |
Pt. 2 | Here There Is No Longer Any Way | 33 |
3 | Encounter with the Lord | 35 |
4 | Walking According to the Spirit | 54 |
5 | A People in Search of God | 72 |
Pt. 3 | Free to Love | 91 |
6 | Conversion: A Requirement for Solidarity | 95 |
7 | Gratuitousness: The Atmosphere for Efficacy | 107 |
8 | Joy: Victory over Suffering | 114 |
9 | Spiritual Childhood: A Requirement for Commitment to the Poor | 122 |
10 | Community: Out of Solitude | 128 |
Conclusion | 136 | |
Notes | 138 | |
Index of Scriptural References | 173 | |
Index of Names and Sources | 177 |