An Ascent to Joy: Transforming Deadness of Spirit

Ochs, Carol

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Drawing on traditions of Jewish biblical commentary, the author employs the Creation account in Genesis to show how understanding God's creativity can give us courage to go on when we contemplate a future of continued trials and failures, because we can reaffirm that we are created in God's image.

The Noah Paradox: Time as Burden, Time as Blessing

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

A Map for the Inner Journey, for Seekers and Guides Alike Written with warmth, compassion, and deep understanding, this book offers a map of the inner journey for exploring the time-honored practice of spiritual guidance. Carol Ochs and Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky speak both to those who seek a Jewish perspective on the spiritual life and those who wish to guide others in this search. Drawing deeply on the riches of the Torah and other important Jewish sources, Jewish Spiritual Guidance offers wisdom and insight to all religious seekers?lay and ordained, Jewish and non-Jewish. They examine the broad principles of spiritual guidance, describing it as the journey of two people?seeker and guide?through the wilderness toward God. The central relationship is not between the seeker and the guide but between the seeker and God. The guide is a companion who helps the seeker discover patterns, articulate insights, and remain faithful. All the lessons that the guide teaches the seeker are lessons that the guide is also learning, again and again. This much-needed resource will not only nourish the seeker-guide relationship but also inspire discussions in adult education classes, minyanim, and prayer groups. All religious seekers will find wisdom and understanding through this illuminating book. CONTENTS Introduction: Seeking and Guiding on the Spiritual Way 1. Finding Our Spiritual Maps 2. Meeting God Through Prayer 3. Listening with Spiritual Attentiveness 4. Recognizing the Spiritual Path 5. Understanding Our Fears 6. Revisiting Our Images of God 7. Engaging God Through the Study of Sacred Texts 8. Encountering Temptation and Sin 9. Enduring the Spiritual Desert 10. Drawing from and Giving to Community 11. Continuing the Spiritual Journey

Jewish Spiritual Guidance: Finding Our Way to God (The Jossey-Bass Religion-In-Practice Series)

Olitzky, Kerry M.

Judaism

Jossey-Bass

In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and experiences of death. 
Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing story of the Jewish people--as Torah. This insight allows us to see these experiences as meaningful, not accidental, and opens us to recognizing God's power in and through all that happens to us. Rather than a collection of random events, our lives are part of the Jewish people's ongoing adventure. Armed with our personally shaped theology, we can face this adventure of living in the vanguard of history with awareness and confidence.

Our Lives As Torah: Finding God in Our Stories

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Behind the Sex of God: Toward a New Consciousness- Transcending Matriarchy and Patriarchy

Beacon Press

Behind the Sex of God: Toward a New Consciousness-Transcending Matriarchy and Patriarchy

Beacon Pr

In Reaching Godward, Dr. Carol Ochs draws on her years of experience as a spiritual guide. A philosopher and rationalist, Ochs incorporates reason, spirituality, Jewish tradition, and life realities into her thoughtful book. In it she portrays the quest for connection with God through a series of vignettes, each a composite of an individual with whom Ochs has worked. Each person is different, and thus each journey is different, but all have developed ways of living out their commitments so that their personal relationships with God continue to develop and their lives continue to be richer for it.

Reaching Godward: Voices from Jewish Spiritual Guidance

Children's Books

Religions

Urj Press

Women and Spirituality (New Feminist Perspectives Series)

Christian Books & Bibles

Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism, including new biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Prodding readers to pay attention to their own experiences, Ochs challenges traditional religious concepts such as solitary struggle, otherworldliness, and the spiritual journey to a distant goal, and shows how women's spirituality focuses on relationships with others, commitment to this world, and engagement with the present.

Women and Spirituality

Written by an acclaimed scholar to enrich and complete the vision offered by traditional Western spirituality, Women and Spirituality demonstrates that women, as women, have a valuable contribution to make to religion. This new edition is revised and updated in light of thirteen years of feminism, including new biblical role models and a new chapter on women's special relationship to time. Prodding readers to pay attention to their own experiences, Ochs challenges traditional religious concepts such as solitary struggle, otherworldliness, and the spiritual journey to a distant goal, and shows how women's spirituality focuses on relationships with others, commitment to this world, and engagement with the present.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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