Renewing America's Soul
Subtitle: a spiritual psychology for home, work, and nation
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826408808
Description: We are all on a life-journey for which there is neither a map nor an itinerary. Howard E. Butt, Jr., takes us on his own life-journey along a road of pain, insight, love, and hope, illuminating the reader's way with wisdom and profound Christian faith. Addressing our personal need for reconciliation at its earliest and most intimate -- between ourselves and our parents -- Howard Butt recounts, with insights from both scripture and psychiatry, his own experience and guidance for working through our relationships at home, in the workplace, and in the nation at large. His unique perspective shows how behavioral science gives new and fresh meaning to the scriptures, and by doing so gives new and fresh meaning to life. - Jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: An opening word; title: Part one : Our core relationships : the good relational source, family, and work.; title: Just call me Bar-Jona! : Psychoanalysis and Simon Peter; title: The psychology of the new birth : foundations for relational growth; title: How to live with each other : the painful truth; title: Part two : Relationships renewed : reparenting and rechildrening.; title: The joy of flex : ordinary people, secular church, realistic hope; title: Eat or be eaten : the unseen battle; title: Parents easy to admire : the pain, the process, and the promise; title: Part three : Relationships and democracy : flex thinking : the citizen as player-coach.; title: The politics of chosenness : making democracy work; title: Strangers to our estrangements : the journey toward sanity and wholeness; title: Triumph scattered : the forward potential in our pain; title: A closing word