Radical gratitude
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog4817
- Author
- Leddy, Mary Jo (Mary Joanna), 1946-
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 4647 G8 L43 2002
- Place of Publication
- Maryknoll NY
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- ix, 182 p.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Mary Jo Leddy".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "What we say with our words is so much less important than what we mean with our lives. Only our lives give weight to our words" (p. 1). This book "has something to say specifically now, in the time after September 11 [2001] .... My own insight is that we cannot rebuild our lives simply by constructing bigger, better, and stronger buildings. We must begin by thinking in a more foundational way, a more radical way. We must begin by becoming grateful. However, although this book begins and ends in gratitude, it must go by the way of reflecting critically on why it seems so difficult to sustain gratitude as an all-encompassing attitude to life. The difficulty will defy our efforts to resolve it personally, for ingratitude is ingrained in our economic system and in the worldview that has shaped our imaginations for more than 200 years. We have been wasting away for want of gratitude for some time. Gratitude will not come easily here and now -- not, or at least not primarily, because we are morally or psychologically weak but because the predominant values of our culture are so subtle and all-pervasive" (pp. 3-4).
- Contents: Beginnings -- Perpetual Dissatisfaction -- Radical Gratitude -- Creative Power -- The Point of Our Being -- Living with Spirit.
- OTCH copy has some underlining in ink in first chapter.
- Subjects
- Gratitude - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Power (Christian theology)
- Spiritual life - Catholic authors
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Economic justice - Religious aspects - Christianity
- ISBN
- 1-57075-448-9 (pbk.)
- Call Number
- BV 4647 G8 L43 2002
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)