Let Your Faith Grow explains how faith matures over lifes stages if so allowed. Challenging faith by formula, this is a must read.
Let Your Faith Grow explains how faith matures over lifes stages if so allowed. Challenging faith by formula, this is a must read.
Christian life (general)
This important rooted and readable book is about the living character of human faith. Crucially, personal faith is not portrayed as some sort of once-off acquisition of a ready-packaged creed or secular belief system. Rather, seeds of faith actually tend to grow, change, indeed evolve through particular stages during the human life-course. These relatively unknown stages are the main platform for David Bicks text. Facing all of us with fundamentals of our human character, this book provides food for the soul in all seasons of life, from teens to old age.
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This is a rare, informed synthesis about the growth of faith over the life span by a wise, scholarly Anglican priest with proven experience as a parish leader, pastoral counsellor and spiritual director. His text is alive with biblical, historical and contemporary psychological insights of great worth that can assist in anyone's quest for and deepening practice of faith.
~ George Carey, former Archbishop of CanterburyDrawing on his own deep experience and reflections, along with informed classical sources across most disciplines,David has given us a refreshing understanding of how we and all others may grow in faith, hope and love. The cumulative faith stages will encourage even a beginner in the faith journey.
The text needs careful consideration, alone or in a group, in order to incorporate what we personally need, in our presentlife experience and context.
Striking quotes include:
“Faith is in essence based upon our emotional and spiritual life … intellect being secondary”
“All fundamentalisms exhibit spiritual immaturity”
“Where faith development goes wrong or ossifies, personal disaster lurks”
Read unhurriedly, with an intention to act on its wisdom, this book will resource all those poised to dive deeper.
~ Bruce Gilberd, Bishop Emeritus of Auckland, New ZealandDavid Bick is a wise counsellor and a man of great faith. ‘Let Your Faith Grow’ will be of great help to many, especially during these times when real faith seems to be a rare and little valued virtue.
~ Francis Baird OSB, Abbot of PrinknashDavid Bick is a rare, truly attentive listener, a gifted communicator and a wise, insightful, compassionate spiritual director. On meeting him I knew I was in the presence of a holy man, for he bore an 'odour of sanctity'. ‘Let Your Faith Grow’charts that all-important, universal journey of faith, one to help those who are in need of direction or people who are totally lost. I warmly commend this book addressing what Evelyn Underhill terms 'The Mystic Way'.
~ Robert Waldron , (Boston, USA), experienced author of spiritual and literary textsThis insightful reworking of Fowler's stages of faith largely from a Christian perspective complements my more secularised update and expansion of the same body of ideas in ‘The Psychology of Spirituality’(Jessica Kingsley, London, 2010). I am pleased to recommend this text as a valuable contribution to the increasingly vital and vibrant movement afoot to promote personal spiritual development.
~ Dr Larry Culliford, PsychiatristThe nature and nurture of faith charted by David Bick is crucial to human well-being. Combining the fine insights of science and of his own religious tradition (whose Founder’s central teachings, rather than frail institutional arrangements of churches, embody eternal, universal truths), he combines psychological insight with practical spiritual wisdom. ~ Professor Richard Whitfield (Editor)
Reading this manuscript was fundamental in helping me to work through my own faith dilemmas. My faith has not fallen apart, and I can now see that it has been developing, and is still growing, to become more meaningful and real. ~ Shirley Whitfield, Taken from text in her Foreword
