8 Spiritual Heroes

by Hill, Brennan R.

• ISBN13: 9780867164213
• ISBN10: 0867164212
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Franciscan Media

Summary

It is evident after exploring these heroes' lives and writings that God remains a Mystery--a reality beyond images, descriptions, dogmas and creeds.--From the Epilogue How does a person imagine God? How does that image change as the person matures spiritually and undergoes a significant religious experience? What influences--political, social, gender, faith tradition--shape and change a person's view of God? In this compelling and inspiring book of biographical theology, Brennan Hill uses stories and historical and theological sources to tell us how eight modern religious heroes see God. Hill's religious heroes are diverse: a Hindu (Mahatma Gandhi), a Jewess who converted to Christianity (Edith Stein), a black Baptist minister (Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Catholic laywoman (Dorothy Day), a Salvadoran archbishop (Archbishop Oscar Romero), two Jesuit priests (Pierre Tielhard de Chardin and Daniel Berrigan) and a nun (Mother Teresa of Calcutta). Hill writes: "Many of my religious heroes lived out their faith in an outstanding manner. For all of these religious heroes God was often close at hand, deeply felt in the events of their lives, glimpsed in the people they met, pursuing them in their minds and hearts. God, as it were, came with many intriguing faces: as a God of truth, of the homeless and of the mountain. God came in the cosmos, as one beckoning to prophecy and as a fellow sufferer sharing the cross. Divinity appeared as the power of peace and in the poverty of the abandoned. Each one of us might now ask: What face has my God shown to me?"

Author Biography

Brennan R. Hill is married to Marie, and they are parents of two young adults, B.J. and Ami. Hill, professor of theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, has written more than twenty books

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(5)
The God of Truth	5	(36)
Mohandas Gandhi
The God of the Homeless	41	(42)
Dorothy Day
The God of the Mountain	83	(36)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The God of the Cosmos	119	(34)
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The God of the Prophets	153	(38)
Oscar Romero
The God of the Cross	191	(32)
Edith Stein
The God of the Peace	223	(32)
Daniel Berrigan
The God of the Abandoned	255	(32)
Mother Teresa
Conclusion	287	(6)
Notes	293	(22)
Bibliography	315	(10)
Index	325