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Spiritual Friendship: Learning To Be Friends With God And One Another, Hank Voss Apr 2022

Spiritual Friendship: Learning To Be Friends With God And One Another, Hank Voss

Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics

Aelred’s Spiritual Friendship focuses on being God’s friend expressed through three conversations with different friends. Aelred draws upon his friendships both with contemporaries and with authors who lived centuries before. This work provides an antidote to our contemporary milieu which, though replete with unremitting communications, propels toward individualism, autonomy, and loneliness. What Spiritual Friendship affords is a guide toward “holy and life-giving” friendships fruitfully marked by joy and happiness.

Professor Hank Voss amplifies a voice from the 12th century that explored Christian friendship in Scripture, in creation (reason), in church teachings (tradition), and in his own practice of spiritual friendship …


Spiritual Friendship In The Works Of Ambrose, Augustine, Aelred: Retrieving The Wealth Of The Great Tradition In Service To The Evangelical Poor, Hank Voss Nov 2019

Spiritual Friendship In The Works Of Ambrose, Augustine, Aelred: Retrieving The Wealth Of The Great Tradition In Service To The Evangelical Poor, Hank Voss

2019 Evangelical Theological Society

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