The Wilderness of God

Product Details

Title: The Wilderness of God
Author: Andrew Louth
Publisher: Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd.
Language: English
ISBN: 0-232-52497-1

Notes & Comments

I prefer a balance between two lives: attachment and detachment, not attachment or detachment. Isolation period, away from human but enclosing into a deep relationship with God, allows clear to reflection one's element therefore making room for transformation through the work of Holy Spirit.

Pg.1
desert: a place where human is refined and God revealed
Pg.22
desert viewpoints: Charles, Huvelin
Pg.27
Garden of Eden <--- desert ---> New Jerusalem Holy City
Pg.28
Noah Ark: symbol of abandoment of human self-sufficiency and reliance on God alone
Pg.52
logismoi (8 types): destroy reality of desert in solitude; hermit and non-hermit
Pg.56
short prayers
Pg.59
obedience: humility and trust -> foundation of the desert life
Pg.66
8 parts, Ancrene Riwle, inner life of anchoress
Pg.74
only myself and God -> real peace in heart
Pg.74
world:hazelnut; God:point; existence due to God's love
Pg.78
weal and woe; prayers
Pg.81
faith
Pg.94
Mount Carmel verses, Abraham desires and wants towards God, possession of one or other of his creatures
Pg.96
possession and fulfilment hinder our union with God
cut off of desire
vanity of human desire
Pg.97
faith in darkness
meditation versus contemplation
Pg.100
purification and darkness
Pg.101
a night of love: to know and perceive its Beloved the love between soul and God
Pg.125
Russian words: podvig and ispravlenie
Pg.128
prayer of the heart
Pg.131
humility
Pg.133
Christians without prayers: birds without wings: soldiers without arms
Pg. 137
God desires mercy not sacrifice
Pg. 139
Prisoner to death: confront
Pg. 146
God's instrument, martyr
Pg.150,157
2 lives: (1) faithful fulfilment of duties - life of attachment; (2) renunciation of earthly love just focus to God - life of detachment; balance of two