Elisabeth McSherry
A FRESH VOICE FROM THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE HAS COURAGEOUSLY BROUGHT US A UNIQUE MODEL OF ADULT SPIRITUAL MATURITY. . . . Combines disciplined erudition with solid psychotherapeutic wisdom, laity-care, parish experience and practiced theological application, to tantalizingly synthesize a more comprehensive view of spiritual maturity. . . . A MUST-READ BOOK for those wishing to challenge society and individuals to a more healthy, and more normative life of the spirit. (Elisabeth McSherry, MD, MPH, National Research Consultant, National VA Chaplaincy; Emeritus Director National Decision Support System Development, VA; Emeritus Associate Professor, Dartmouth Medical School Dept of Family & Community Medicine)
Len Sperry
In an era when spirituality is too readily overly psychologized, Pembroke offers a BRILLIANT synthesis of the psychological, spiritual and moral dimensions of Christian maturity. The description of this integrative journey to wholeness is fully consistent with the best of the Christian tradition. ESSENTIAL READING for pastoral counselors, spiritually-sensitive psychotherapists, spiritual directors, and ministry personnel. (Len Sperry, MD, PhD, Clinical Professsor of Psyciatry, Medical College of Wisconsin; Author of Transforming Self and Community: Revisioning Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction)
Bruce Rumbold
OFFERS BOTH RESOURCES AND A GUIDE FOR THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. He draws upon a wide range of materials, popular and scholarly, sacred and secular, weaving these strands together with consummate skill, creating a conversation that is self-talk with a theological frame. Most importantly he shows us the warp and weft, pointing to the scholarship that supports or challenges popular accounts, the clashing concepts that can underlie apparent similar phraseology. We are encouraged to develop skills for the journey, not to adopt an unexamined technique. . . . Of particular interest to people who long for ways of speaking about the spiritual journey that do not uncritically embrace current self-psychologies on the one hand or theological pietism on the other. (Bruce Rumbold, MSc, PhD, BD(Hons), PhD, MA, Acting Director, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)