Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (Signed First Edition)
by Foster, Richard J
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, (1978).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
with FIRST EDITION stated on copyright page as well as full number line, etc.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER.
Good in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; sunning along edges of cover; a couple of bumps; dust jacket is worn and a bit rippled; backed by white paper; price clipped.
Classic. Scarce signed.
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Synopsis
Incorporates "Richard J. Foster's Study Guide for Celebration of Discipline," a 78-page text only available in print in a standalone edition.Praised by many as the most important contemporary book on Christian spirituality, this enduring guidebook has sold more than one and a quarter million copies.In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study, offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration, bring us nearer to one another and to God.Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities-and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.
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- Bookseller
- LaCelle Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17893
- Title
- Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Foster, Richard J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1978
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