THE ART OF CONFESSION: RENEWING YOURSELF THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF HONESTY
Book ID/图书代码： 14560011B45131
English Summary/英文概要： Paul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book—a spiritual gem—that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audience. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health. It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious living. And for thousands of years people have used the power of confession to find their best selves.
Liberating confession from the confessional, The Art of Confession draws on traditions as old as ancient Greece and as modern as psychoanalysis as diverse as Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, to show readers how to incorporate a confessional practice into their daily lives. There are visualizations, spiritual exercises, prompts, and meditations; private confessions, direct confessions, psychological confessions.
Accompanied throughout by a wise “confessional chorus”—a rabbi, a priest, a psychiatrist, a nun, whose points-of-view complement and augment the text—The Art of Confession is an antidote to our age of oversharing, where we happily broadcast the minutest details of our lives in public, yet never find the time to discover the risk, relief, and ultimately the renewal that real, considered self-reflection offers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 保罗.维尔克斯创作了一本高雅的，规范的，不朽的作品—一颗精神上的宝石—并用此书为现代读者再现了忏悔的力量。忏悔是宗教的根基，心灵健康的本质。他是倾听心生，通往诚实之路以及获得有意识的生活的方法。而且数千年来，人们已经通过忏悔的力量找到了他们最真实的自我。 《忏悔的艺术》古至希腊的传统，今至当代的精神分析，内容丰富涵盖犹太主义，天主教义和伊斯兰教教义，告诉读者把忏悔和日常生活结合起来，并最终将忏悔的实质从忏悔中的形式中解放出来。本书还提供了视觉展现，心灵修养，警示语和沉思录，个人忏悔，直接忏悔以及心理忏悔的相关介绍。
本书集众家之长—拉比，牧师，心理学家，尼姑，成就了一场充满智慧的“忏悔大合唱”，他们的观点一方面完善了本书，另一方面又使得本书的境界得到巨大的提高。对于我们这个共享过多的时代，《忏悔的艺术》将是一剂良方；在此我们可以在公共场合高高兴兴大声谈论自己生活中最微小的细节，而且从来不会受到伤害，只有救赎，最终获得全新的自己。这就是真正的自我反省所能带来的效果。(兼职翻译-XMM)
Awards/获奖情况："Confession isn’t just for Catholics. Looking seriously at the state of one’s soul is a healthy, hopeful and holy spiritual practice for everyone. In this wise, warm and welcoming book, Wilkes shows how confession can help deepen our relationship with God, heal our relationships with others, and move us toward becoming the people we are called to be." ---James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Wilkes is the author, most recently, of In Due Season: A Catholic Life, chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of 2009’s 100 outstanding books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the founder of Homes of Hope India-U.S., which shelters and educates orphan girls in India, and cofounder of CHIPS (Christian Help in Park Slope), a Brooklyn center serving poor and homeless young women and mothers for over 35 years. He lives with his wife in Wilmington, North Carolina.
保罗.维尔克斯是《正值季节：天主教生活》9In Due Season: A Catholic Life)作者，该书被《出版人周刊》评选为2009年最杰出的100部作品之一。他的文章经常在《纽约客》，《大西洋周刊》以及《纽约时报》上发表。他还是印度—美国“希望之家”的创始人，该组织为印度的女孤儿提供住所和教育机会。此外，保罗还是CHIPS的创始人之一，该组织旨在帮助年轻、贫困、无家可归的未婚妇女们和35岁以上的母亲提供帮助。目前，作者和妻子住在北卡莱罗那州的威明顿市。
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