Jesus the Mystic

Description

This book based on decades of experience of the author accompanying the dying offers a spirituality of Jesus that is based in reality and existentially transformative. Jesus the Mystic, Dr. Renz shows, holds answers to even the most difficult questions human life presents. This is the rare guidebook for rooting your life in the Sacred, based as much in experience as in stringent scientific research. A music-therapist and psychotherapist, Dr. Renz is specialized in palliative counseling and spearheaded the Spiritual-Care-Movement. she is head of psycho-oncology at the Kanton-Hospital of St. Gallen, and a sought after speaker and author in the area of psychological and spiritual palliative care. She has written several books on these topics. This is the rare book based as much on the author’s decade long experience with medical and psychological accompaniment of the dying as on scientific research at a major Swiss institution. A deeply enlightening, transformative and practical guidebook towards a lifestyle rooted in spiritual realities. Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Jesus and God – A Mystical Connection 2. Absent Mysticism and Awakening 3. Jesus the Mystic – A Historical View 4. Jesus’ Concept of God – An Answer to Fear 5. Jesus’ Concept of the Human Being 6. Jesus’ Response to Sin – Mysticism 7. Jesus and Evil 8. Jesus, the Father, and Love 9. Redemption – Newly Spelled Out 10. He Comes Toward Me – Jesus the Logos and Christ Epilogue