The Practice of Spiritual Direction /
William A. Barry and William J. Connolly
- New York : Seabury Press, 1982
- xii, 211 p. ; 21 cm.
Introducing spiritual direction. What is spiritual direction? -- The centrality of religious experience -- Fostering the relationship between the directee and the Lord. The relationship between God and individuals -- Fostering the contemplative attitude -- Helping a person notice and share with the Lord key interior facts -- Development of relationship and resistance -- Criteria for evaluation religious experience -- Aspects of the relationship between director and directee. Becoming a spiritual director -- The basis for the relationship between director and directee -- Disturbances in the relationship between director and directee -- Supervision in spiritual direction -- Conclusion.