{"product_id":"the-only-mind-worth-having-thomas-merton-and-the-child-mind-paperback-1","title":"The Only Mind Worth Having: Thomas Merton and the Child Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFiona Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRowan Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is \"the only mind worth having\" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path toward spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experience to organized innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Gardner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, spiritual director, and writer living in the UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eJourneying Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Four Steps of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003ePrecious Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) as well as psychoanalytic books and articles. Formerly chair of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004-8) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Merton Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (2008-14), she is on the board of the International Thomas Merton Society and was awarded a \"Louie\" in 2015 at the ITMS Centenary Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42670296105056,"sku":"9781498230223","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/NVJXcEtpRHQyRERDSlgzTGNyazRmUT09.webp?v=1774918372","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-only-mind-worth-having-thomas-merton-and-the-child-mind-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}