Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality: Spiritual Direction of Men through the Lens of Saint John of the Cross
    Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality: Spiritual Direction of Men through the Lens of Saint John of the Cross
    Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality: Spiritual Direction of Men through the Lens of Saint John of the Cross
    Ebook601 pages7 hours

    Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality: Spiritual Direction of Men through the Lens of Saint John of the Cross

    By Christopher Felix Bezzina and George Pattison

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Reclaiming Men's Spirituality is a study that investigates men's spirituality by exploring three research questions: Can a form of spirituality about men be identified and described, how can this spirituality be examined, and what is it that needs to be reclaimed? To answer these questions and at the same time remain committed to the importance of lived experience, this study opted to investigate the lives of men by attending to ten spiritual histories. The study is situated in Malta, and the ten spiritual histories provide access to various features, expressions, and contours that relate closely to men's being. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with ten spiritual directors who have men as spiritual directees. Their contribution clarifies the structure of men's spirituality, the effort required when directing male spiritual directees and the impact generated in the lives of men thanks to spiritual direction. To provide a frame of reference for the examination of all the gathered data, John of the Cross's spiritual framework has been chosen as the mystical instrument against which men's spiritualities are studied, leading to richer insights into the operations, motives, goals, and problems of such spiritualities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPickwick Publications
    Release dateFeb 16, 2024
    ISBN9781666763546
    Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality: Spiritual Direction of Men through the Lens of Saint John of the Cross
    Author

    Christopher Felix Bezzina

    Christopher Felix Bezzina holds a BA in social work and an MA in spirituality from the University of Malta. In 2022 he completed his doctoral research in theology and religious studies at the University of Glasgow.

    Related to Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Time For The Church To Embark On A Navel-gazing Exercise

      Mar 31, 2024

      FOR any political structure that fails in the absence of moral direction, it would seem natural for it to turn to organised religion for leadership. Unfortunately, the direction of most modern institutional religion is decidedly secular. The institu

      5 min read

    • Article

      To Understand Religion, Think Football: Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

      Sep 4, 2014

      The invention of religion is a big bang in human history. Gods and spirits helped explain the unexplainable, and religious belief gave meaning and purpose to people struggling to survive. But what if everything we thought we knew about religion was w

      13 min read

    • Article

      To Understand Religion, Think Football: Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

      Aug 11, 2016

      The invention of religion is a big bang in human history. Gods and spirits helped explain the unexplainable, and religious belief gave meaning and purpose to people struggling to survive. But what if everything we thought we knew about religion was w

      13 min read

    • Article

      This Essentially Meaningless Conflict

      Sep 22, 2017

      MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S accomplishments are impressive by any standard: she has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal, among other honors. But perhaps a better measure o

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion

      May 30, 2019

      The invention of religion is a big bang in human history. Gods and spirits helped explain the unexplainable, and religious belief gave meaning and purpose to people struggling to survive. But what if everything we thought we knew about religion was w

      11 min read

    • Article

      Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?

      May 24, 2018

      Harvey Whitehouse doesn’t like how New Atheists like Richard Dawkins make religion out to be a mere “set of propositions” amounting to a “failed science.” In a 2013 YouTube video, Whitehouse—the director of the Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary A

      8 min read

    • Article

      How To Disagree Well

      Jan 27, 2022

      IT WAS ON CHRISTMAS EVE that I realised I’d been subjected to a social media drive-by shooting. That pinnacle of modern ecclesiastical power, the president of Humanists UK, Professor Alice Roberts had deduced from the headline of an interview I gave

      3 min read

    • Article

      THE WAR FOR OUR YOUTH Why creation still matters

      Dec 30, 2019

      We’re being told by public education systems, universities, media, some parents, and unfortunately many church leaders, that parts of the Bible are not relevant anymore and that we need to reinvent God’s word. So, with this situation, in order to und

      3 min read

    • Article

      Uncharted Cultural Waters

      Mar 18, 2022

      Uncharted Cultural Waters
      2 min read

    • Article

      Equal Rights

      Nov 28, 2018

      Equal Rights
      13 min read

    • Article

      At Fellowship Church, Faith Knows No Creed Or Color

      Jul 19, 2021

      The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, founded in 1944, transcends barriers of race, color, and creed, uniting instead in a shared humanity.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Black Buddhists, Black Buddhisms

      Jun 28, 2022

      Black Buddhists, Black Buddhisms
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Rosary In My Pocket

      May 23, 2023

      A Rosary In My Pocket
      4 min read

    • Article

      For Life’s Wonderful Moments

      Jan 27, 2020

      What inspired you to write your book? A published essay I wrote about mortality without faith and growing up with my parents [renowned astronomer Carl Sagan and writer and producer Ann Druyan] was the seed of the book. But it really started taking s

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Reclaiming Men’s Spirituality - Christopher Felix Bezzina

      nebook_preview_excerpt.html}ɒ#ǵĒ4C%Y(HX%&Yb%E[/@C EM%m){=$'["2Ç;;G;}n{7Wjx 7ou7w=}qb܆)QчPTaUVaXU=BQ.i,v尚c-bյcN*ƮxV uiB1_m fu; M݆b˳C1틻i(޵n=_ef\qW3 ˕ .onلlaM,t!)bcUq|a: \W.zqͺ_b؇U]6wMW\^>r]^L^c'3nݪnSfQȦSM}'ktn纓ȿGYvؤ!8P7u;^Lj>H_oڴcHkwݾ cfdu{=kg8F=Ne>sU|(nd}7Ԥ%--[ʢZ?0p讇_D,ۏx\Tj!t;N$>`*֥L{Q,'l ot3b9WU&pE<%,~l^$)> qV NYR$,O?]QlsHabY}FI)Z)/EEnJē<.B'tUc)C>WdM[+6(b(Y(qQ{؆Y!TTͲWN,ưڶ//h eO%Le05WWsgzo+(.Je[iWuv$%TyCeb!zV U f:f}`J~^`8Id(tm+L'8BX2 #Cv"d!D8@@-@d'z݉`!g IYH8#vVv[ e-҇\G<*(+VK\˲TQ_6n6> wRp&:XAR)ۂߜ`fjFh Ӊp&zʹ۫)Om]}RJf{(7PUJ>]/@WmDNBꔊ& {F 9(hztPόO!༨ De[S@Emxw S<\SQM=4` #"))3ҹ8D5F"%Rav)(I /g$Z.Vt,\lEM֑prz鶭kr>Lf zA9ʪUfO;ᮻ5P#˵&dh+BP|g죮I/`–' ./o vP7T˜@M''y`Ghfaw ՏSxiդI.W"Wg ZAwKr$Ir[0+Q+@m1$bxTƷD,i.w- d]o&#J+və  xYsI رR.3D=APoYU=|o]H(tIhwuP4p/1?8.,jlHdΐvrk(WrX`91Q7Z= Aag1ArD!{&|dBy6]xe71hZr{_l"_#tm}[Cߩ)twF4"6{ Hfs< f]y2FMtwS>4 > _7ŧS_"s%kVAN?#VZ.}GAkPE(dY;þ\*s> ȯ$k TPՕ>St{G6X`yN*:fGpXvz4>r[[2mW j/ȊJ36 trt Mz`JC+!#-G@v|-q [VJeiaEtaT ևaQVlIUyQTe,jG+za%( `(9^iCX6"(jC!M .oGNd] :$rδ<)sZÝ8P"jF˕g2S}4嫇3SA R__NN]CB9%ƺSr 7oE8ߔ1AIݸ8oI ߙqNCxgpc#*ej]Sk:╾Mb сr,p/4I0{12vj~E7#\:\Jz* ,,\AFݔq=qb/)EL( ^O? VKWVPYfN(h eY/?9G -8YFꩶmhR)_^;&+VENp9!3!E75ݸ2!˳fP7Yg4(p vAcU`":p;3{sWdzz3, W?2ñf;i5NӕCxafF;(/wE5ָݨ6Z3e =Y3˅A%Ӵh7AfGQft%˼ԀL"C݉f , BN7)'37-ZD"~> 9nGr> %y՜:tЙi;:GL2ע*3'Ǥ غTpHK'n0rhY_[#5+ 5 E$m%b7Ө&qa\>)K Y;̡KT>]i Rt1q=t b(q'f,$w DBn;׌9c̸6-hnxQQYu.%S O8Y[biWeW󀮍*&UT, a_:͞5eQ ӵ& ? ѳ:?Gז":I@~PPÅerφubYig8\ Iԟs;Q5ۙ?M'w!za7f.uOJ2]u"o|9jkx"Zbcړ7_xă@o{S_G=NKo-D{rY.;aRwiaIgi-Fs?hk_/T%@:Otwd-n !tKs)Ep:?)%rfɅ.s2B4욜*<,W# EK&# DNL/]g44́ho\v(Onӹ"7`:|vjRO;ҩ|# G!օEFbD5fjjrO q c 'Ŕ&Ztpa$`b0a)3US=lR:2B_\M}YHxLAm3fV:P x-m uf($ĨyR|D60ۓqaDzj4ZYn$5}@LdvxH|NO ȟzB 7QR"^9DةNyim.7x$z7kT2}g _j6N_y.C/ƸG_Q ṂtϪi|7Kڑ)h qQۓvN3X O>XޕA4):eBUPL=,#8}&pXmcy }%}cAB Rن}(î~᥉tL?B>H٦4ެK+b^ax,^^Eb" q,51;3M2 ˩O:fԿEd! G.D7$rH-c]|&'-6!gL1%ĘN:P f5zV,-KX oJYMBaW j47 M.,TR,ŋfs^|^fdps+pcLSv.qW̦jgv(вwKq 6桌V\/DCL=`F!ח*%il^-`CsiU.Gk5<~|Ѻ)SlQP1sϣ PC{BY3E>Ӆ TȤ\'Ӱ夲l;ʒ{sG2E6Hk3տjc7/҅"p&(tJOl9g~d.[o݇Pu)c˧H%Rƺ@L(*L.[n|];; Qt?֣:̼{\M2IipțxDBX $ %R'd) YDo3-U?as!_Ut]; Y[{ǹmE0MfB føBžgDfYDB}=Y& ^ִ4SU4WG5%jCnQ1|l03tנ ϤYc|Pe}AO41<8C8B?l%uoTsr>Q168IYn|N9\6z@g}>%ls&:!CJEw9Uu簶UȤ.#FgV@Xpc49KĨ?@+Tj. sŬBs*իY9|Yuqm/x2~XC}4*zPĝXԻxFNu^yfA ugg3ҰC3I2VlVNcPc#5Һ7@P fg^]l5bJB+7p 0 U)<(VݪkΌA\W0QYZb?}К1UW\uiՀV?[Z9;b8X,N̦RNSʔ36&Z~r/&.OR̢5`Vc -IZVxC(_RTΒu"{uD:E=UWevr8pYL/\a%Cz%z\vF iY(~@fӣ*eQSM֐ugv,R4.{TLϓYG J_ٲd6Xq8^ce ŜCbY:Eja?<$&5{$9!rTNUբ?;dn-b7[2~6y >)OJ*#/BOk=!"?`^~z8ݷP#$iAZUy/(S̹.&ZwYfwM T€Ҽz֔D|(D򨧱9٠nˊSwa8#mi=:'VuTKžPcwo m8;05<ҒTf.[Ȗ-o=jf&E S&sdcIƍ}P^xb:Ϡrs9Rvbuel3 À`ZnYJֻBS^ra{gS92nxWj<t52~w+mjW PE+!z+4񙌰̪bv 5+fKuj-LFIʘ7#ڵ͝R_2X Z֕/2C E*£hAxW NXf^UJ)9 #E]bkӖdS[2n8BEZ2+Ͼ(U3/֣*O)W 5[!Z֪7ʣ=rLנG`gqN:IwO'e)>1ƈ׎w5 LK}}NE[";ߛ8g9.//'/%'&A.UWENP- N;.$!=%ev@z(:Ƀ+TpBKf/olG*i5SM^2!S֣2:Igq/bc,,At+,DNZu^.qnJQ*QcDNcf7IJ2K8iwHO-ETX/Yi+)Z 12Z5H2AvSvp̕oD5Ѵ$|Jb[h}ck&/f3fkG_6sgF&Užf. P[ 4DU}W+i#ȹ`Z4;щ:#ic*f5M)}v*i>lj#kj8O9s%,ehʺb21CG;L%XC7  kwMި+xUUw zO3H+^y fc v &OG-l o%=h͹{BX|X׆LdB}^jMTBvⷵ͂(;/ Q6 ~&*__w:uVW}$AlnoC/}T1qРω]hI%eu.O#/JZkxwh!\^uǗsKy罚!3;wá KCp}*^y}ZFZc؏ddE?i^kbg#_l1#9@2c}\6ۏUa2kپ>+x- +@+T%~Umދlq|DP{_?/?=:p}AO|k>6fCXK>A9͢x) ;kä9?14 =KgM[bSܬ]fRD`tSE'*l>A}Qh_"Gvo єMAl%wƦ)`7MzyN0c|ec>$=wyZLF!ڐVc7lx%*ryFĶX}n(آ4M|>;ryfΌ=|rŷ.~DiSZݟmN,}ڻ/},00! և=->&o:Г7pxjJ]HIǢL=Uz/pkT-4^BGNg\pχnuD^5)4}: ܳ gYk{̤6XiLH/Ɍ-O3{~s_scL7{~˟;bo?IZø4~|RRM.v k(;2uc=8#˚T[Lbz*~toR0v[.N$vϏ[Ne}溑uM7>zW^Ww׻Ozֶy9 MM0V?v+ D{}k< ھ tbp,2ǩ08ӫ|RrqèHTy++1vlO>(G Rf,ԁ]&(uy!ѸPlBk2yiFEFկĖP)IJ@[yHԚZ,8jP;QS QƋ֬K spf-0EuCLwGkrB9HC[iJd0dӭ,!P,ǂ˟+~uQF7߼8܉:r?~yx6ʊ;դ|%1WO'̱DTAHmg+y[[o^DA.]3箲_aKy|j8LJx=' ~iLJDb;oQ"yDJS4w2/&trBz (6UX;*vR X_ S?^0}3M 0Lq]C!=^ .C(."RXǺX .'mK?.<oE=P2.f $C炿ӛy(K?'}X>Dߗūxy1_vpFY2 dlˉ+3/.I:ߍp j-nN?Zg{!},i q=Ea~txh6O(4w<cz!]RzɦC Ϛ<̒b¥8{&tOHbn 8=* k>s /v-4J*)!=$֟R R"͌ڮhբ?;/uYb1B˵U5_I⏓(RXPϠ5S=ssGjkh۠s՘ r; /9G#D] ӡnc9zSv}Dm:3vc.(& lԡ Dc,Ó2M ;lxJor,xZ1kn[czg{C9;xE_#N2ѫgTfHQ\襞LB tW<5)wΣY/Ex…ܡJMw2R3iMHm$wzxrhWqLoX 4 eMn fb%ϚL]AqvfߴT=jʵLg Q *W&eܿ!A\Ui`¶amtlv9Aȵx?TmK/,sգ_[3!j`^vmY7:>'EӋ--&qIh*m77ZRrRY]ڵEȲd%3n^tJb,ۦF8걙7*[{$sivr P,s?Xy2*ԡpWB)۝S!*`䋄/os*Cٗ+EsWQ/JB.)!!;ANKt粩=x e`f2G c>hG,KAȮCO,B}˺sb4I?z][/X<̢}'Z}'E|xi4\ydM-i{(K4{#8Wv]o)`[f3_\!)u)+(;*QQY5LX@<,\+=e%L5/`a;Q]Yɋ?}[H-($)U:^(v5EXU_ڝs=tb"~Ĝ? ,զӇ*-j~͘3ex]6Fk5X AϑV|6]kxH2J5WC4\Yq$TCxRmKړ+[4+a,VKm}Hd'7aw0a[p\*L:'o1։Yr?o-4=nir] 5GE"dFD2Q~TAdڨMɷw<xc]as;W:4z[_w0*wPcUEU[%`2hM(_O+?C 1&kg#^҅_ni 7bxaO8UPtejA2dqoU7GqwΐͦRIaiP$I\$R|DwlbA![ΰv7!h ]ml)圳F0E]]/#2tCr ܰ9_ ɢ :ġg ?XB4'k<;Z`-ic+vзJn6oat qV4O=[ː^lDɨnmc&mAjT`>F!a٠caOzd^D2kޞ!;৆^%aNwOJ}ElKyd^3VYN˲$Მk ò CO4O;R zTX,U@3@h{(;$zgvv nF .S`^v 4#!? b LI5\w $̼;oerXN.vw|466!j4- "Y hx9)ﱏ46rvBcd[^iuf-US'NDhȮ0T f%kJt xˮMHg%-#_gaj-cхo!悜M(| Ϟ!!U!pYlvnI{rYhەBT '$4Viy-!憤,kxeEK\/֌qAOq7GTR [yUcڙ[ Y2cSs5_@{U|$u 7If75yU*֪_&k04WȤ NY`"q2nȆm25{"zUmYaax;(GP6ꦬpbQ=͘Vd7H`dxUMU0S%hgM!} |I*|$A1]ˁx5&g粇_s~&|Iim2<^mKtm`꺧ЮѲDAsik:!xV#zRⱎ"1+wTxDE֯É5Ί^g{΁D&Ȁ)I/,fWZj;Y0 MwZ _)gtRlЃD>6٩ ^ٵ7za̷x%*׸JiX~hf9ɚEQ2%q A42j)
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1