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Robert J. Wicks, noted psychologist and author of bestsellers Riding the Dragon and Everyday Simplicity , delivers this paperback edition of Crossing the Desert , an insightful guide on how the wisdom of the ancient desert monks can help contemporary readers grow in personal freedom and authenticity.
Dr. Wicks offers a psychological perspective on the early Christian monastic movement of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, using their wisdom to guide readers toward humility and freedom. In the same way the desert sages never gave answers, but always asked questions, Crossing the Desert presents readers with four desert questions that will lead them to take steps to inner freedom.
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- Published on: 2008-08-01
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- Sales Rank: #720534 in Books
- Published on: 2008-08-01
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .45″ h x
5.12″ w x
6.92″ l,
.39 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 166 pages
Robert J. Wicks, noted psychologist and author of bestsellers Riding the Dragon and Everyday Simplicity , delivers this paperback edition of Crossing the Desert , an insightful guide on how the wisdom of the ancient desert monks can help contemporary readers grow in personal freedom and authenticity.
Dr. Wicks offers a psychological perspective on the early Christian monastic movement of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, using their wisdom to guide readers toward humility and freedom. In the same way the desert sages never gave answers, but always asked questions, Crossing the Desert presents readers with four desert questions that will lead them to take steps to inner freedom.
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Total Conversion
By Carol Blank
In his latest work, Dr. Wicks advises those seeking wisdom from the desert fathers and mothers to “read, underline, write out what we’ve underlined, study, think…absorb, practice.” I suggest the same approach to Crossing the Desert. From the first chapter, Wicks continually draws parallels between the fourth century culture the Christian ammas and abbas wished to escape and that of the twenty-first century. He illustrates his points with stories from his personal and professional life and passages written by spiritual leaders and seekers of all faiths. With deeper, more focused reading we see that he is writing about total conversion and the freedom it brings, not simply offering a few add-ins for our bag of spiritual tricks.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Not up the level of some of his other books
By LexOrandi
I was not too happy with this book. Previously I had read the author’s After 50: Spiritually Embracing Your Own Wisdom Yearsand was very satisfied with it. This book is not as good. First I think the book is improperly titled. Other than a very brief mention of St. Anthony of the Desert he does not provide any specifics on the Desert Fathers. He is a psychologist and I guessed wrongly that he would have more spirituality and theology in his book. He quotes Thomas Merton and I think you would be better served reading Merton in the original. Two of his master works are:New Seeds of Contemplation and No Man Is an Island If you read Merton you feel connected to the holy. If you read Wicks you are connected to the ordinary.Another excellent book is by Henri Nouwen The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The desert has its gifts…
By Renee Aubuchon
Assuming there is eternal wisdom that gets written about in different cultures and in different contexts, this book presents some of that wisdom in the name of the desert fathers and mothers. The recurrent and superficial mentioning of the desert fathers and mothers in the book makes it easy to believe that invoking them is perhaps little more than a marketing ploy, because really very little is said about them in this book.The current that runs through this book most clearly stems from the author’s background in psychology- and perhaps having yet another psychologist write a book about how to live wisely did not inspire the publishers the way adding some spice with references to desert mothers and fathers did. I am just guessing here- and the way the book reads makes it easy to make this kind of guess.That said, there are some truly worthy, inspiring and insightful passages in this book that while they were rare, were thoughts and inspirations I hadn’t heard put that way previously and that I found very helpful.
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