Rowman & Littlefield
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir contains some of Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Alive with the raw energy of a journal and polished with the skill of a master storyteller, each chapter is an engaging dialogue between Sister Joan and many different wisdom sources about such topics as God's existence and call, experience, struggle, justice, the role of women and men in society and church, living through doubt, and celebrating life.
What Readers Say...
"Want to see what mature spirituality looks like? Then read this book."
- Catholic Press Association Award Citation
"This memoir ... bears the compelling marks of a spiritual classic of our time...."
- EUGENE KENNEDY, Ph.D., award-winning author
"...This wise, charitable and humane book will give hope to anybody who has felt diminished by institutionalized religion."
- KAREN ARMSTRONG, Ph.D., religious affairs scholar and bestselling author
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This is a book that examines the multiple threads that make up the lifelong warp and woof of the spiritual experience. It gives no single set of rules. It describes no mystical secrets. It guarantees no certain system of spiritual advancement. It simply looks at all the dimensions of life as we live it today and asks what, if anything, is holy-making about any of it.
It asks whether life as we know it has anything to do with life as ancient spiritual writers declared it to be good.
It is, in other words, an excursion into the questions and soul-searching of one person but it is not, if it is true, only one person’s story. It is every person’s story. Yours as well as mine. And it is not traveled alone, this path to purpose and perception. It happens in conjunction with all the experiences and truths of all the rest of the people of my world.
This book ends nothing. My only hope is that it will begin in others the process that it reflects in me. All the uncertainty, all the confusion, all the waiting for life to clarify and the spirit to grow are more than worth it.
Discussion Questions
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Awards
Catholic Press Association 2005, 1st place award