Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation
The best clerical formation today prepares men to be divinely loved in their humanity. In Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation, Deacon James Keating shares what makes a priest or deacon peaceful, personally happy, and—to the extent he keeps receiving the love of God in prayer as a man of interiority and sacrament—a minister of God’s love to his people.
This volume includes the following essays:
Part I: The Interior Life of the Cleric
- Theology as Thinking in Prayer
- Newman: Theologian of Prayer
- I Will Not Leave You Orphans
- Spiritual Direction: Navigate Your Life Toward God
Part II: The Formation of the Cleric
- The Seminary and Western Culture: Relationships That Promote Recovery and Holiness
- From Fantasy to Contemplation: Seminarians and Formation in a Paschal Imagination
- Christ Is the Sure Foundation: Priestly Human Formation Completed in and by Spiritual Formation
- Human Formation and Communion with Christ
- Seminary Formation and Interior Silence
- Beyond Schooling: Seminaries, Integral Formation, and the Role of Academics
- Teaching Seminary Theology
- Real Celibacy Is an Invitation from Divine Beauty
- The Deacon: Identity and Holiness
Part III: The Pastoral Mission of the Cleric
- Contemplative Homiletics
- Contemplative Homiletics: Being Carried into Reality
- Growing in Love of the Lay Life: Evangelizing Martyrs
- Teaching Parishioners to Pray
- The Eucharistic and the Healing of Affection for Sin