Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation

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The best clerical formation today prepares men to be divinely loved in their humanity. In Configured to Christ: On Spiritual Direction and Clergy Formation, Deacon James Keating shares what makes a priest or deacon peaceful, personally happy, and—to the extent he keeps receiving the love of God in prayer as a man of interiority and sacrament—a minister of God’s love to his people.This volume includes the following essays:Part I: The Interior Life of the ClericTheology as Thinking in PrayerNewman: Theologian of PrayerI Will Not Leave You OrphansSpiritual Direction: Navigate Your Life Toward GodPart II: The Formation of the ClericThe Seminary and Western Culture: Relationships That Promote Recovery and HolinessFrom Fantasy to Contemplation: Seminarians and Formation in a Paschal ImaginationChrist Is the Sure Foundation: Priestly Human Formation Completed in and by Spiritual FormationHuman Formation and Communion with ChristSeminary Formation and Interior SilenceBeyond Schooling: Seminaries, Integral Formation, and the Role of AcademicsTeaching Seminary TheologyReal Celibacy Is an Invitation from Divine BeautyThe Deacon: Identity and HolinessPart III: The Pastoral Mission of the ClericContemplative HomileticsContemplative Homiletics: Being Carried into RealityGrowing in Love of the Lay Life: Evangelising MartyrsTeaching Parishioners to PrayThe Eucharistic and the Healing of Affection for Sin

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