Encountering anew the familiar
Subtitle: Francis de Sales's Introduction to the Devout Life at 400 years
By: edited by Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.
Contributors: International Commission for Salesian Studies
Publisher: International Commission for Salesian Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780980037135
Subjects: Congresses; Spiritual life; Catholic Church; Introduction à la vie dévote (Francis, de Sales, Saint)
Other titles: Francis de Sales's Introduction to the Devout Life at 400 years
Notes: Revised and expanded versions of papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the De Sales Oblates, under the auspices of its International Commission for Salesian Studies, held in Annecy, France in 2009 (the 400th anniversary of the publication of Introduction to the Devout Life).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Four centuries of editions of the Introduction to the Devout Life : bibliographical lessons  -- Viviane Mellinghoff-Bourgerie; title: The Introduction to the Devout Life as a spiritual classic  -- Wendy M. Wright; title: The Introduction to the Devout Life, spiritual direction, and oblate formation  -- Lewis S. Fiorelli; title: "In our image and likeness" (Genesis 1:26) : image-making and spiritual formation in the Introduction to the Devout Life  -- Joseph F. Chorpenning; title: Chains of love : the eternity of friendship in the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales  -- Daniel P. Wisniewski; title: Modern adaptations of the Introduction to the Devout Life  -- Michel Tournade -- Appendix:; title: Homily at the Eucharistic Liturgy closing the symposium -- Aldino Jose Kiesel.