<p>Integrates psychology and theology in self-transcendence, thus establishing a foundation for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction in a distinctive dynamic understanding of the self.</p>

The Desiring Self: Rooting Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction in Self-Transcendence

Religion & Spirituality

Conn, Walter E.

Christian Books & Bibles

Paulist Pr

John Henry Newman once wrote that to live is to change. In this work Walter E. Conn explores the ways in which Newman himself changed throughout his spiritual life, ultimately resulting in his move to Rome and his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism. However, this work also highlights the ways in which this most famous conversion fits into a life driven through a series of important conversions and yet unified by an underlying, dynamic conscience and a desire for a transcendent Other, the ultimate reality of truth, goodness, and love. In accomplishing this task Conn traces the life of Newman, identifying the various specific conversion experiences that characterized Newman changing sense of his spiritual self, and identifying the place of consciousness in this process.

Conscience & Conversion in Newman: A Developmental Study of Self in John Henry Newman

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Marquette Univ Pr

Conscience--development and self-transcendence

Religious Education Press

<p>Walter Conn has provided us with something we have needed for a long time -- a scholarly study of Christian conversion that draws synthetically from present day psychology, philosophy, and theology and uses these insights to analyze actual Christian religious experience. And in doing that, Conn has produced what is probably the best treatment to date of foundational moral theology. To follow Conn through the pages of this volume is to become acquainted with most of today's important reflection on human moral and personal development. But one emerges with much more than relevant information about what is being said; Conn's own view of conversion goes beyond the thinkers from whom he draws and provides a basic challenge to and enrichment of our understanding of faith and morality. -- Bernard Cooke, Holy Cross College Walter E. Conn is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. He is also the editor of Horizons, journal of the College Theology Society.</p>

Christian Conversion: A Developmental Interpretation of Autonomy and Surrender

Wipf & Stock Publishers

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