The Strangest Way : Walking the Christian Path

Acknowledgments 7(2) Preface Strange Christianity 9(4) Introduction Paths and Practices 13(1) Prelude: Apprenticeship 13(5) The Problem with Modernity 18(6) Back to Practices 24(5) Being a Saint 29(2) Walking the First Path: Finding the Center 31(36) Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited 35(10) The Place of Safety and Power 45(4) The Place of Detachment 49(4) Practices for Path One 53(14) Practices of Prayer 53(4) Pilgrimages and Processions 57(2) Medals, Crosses, and Garb 59(4) Fasting 63(4) Walking the Second Path: Knowing You're a Sinner 67(46) The Nature of Sin 72(4) Dante's Purgatorio 76(17) Jesus as Judge and Savior 93(6) Practices for Path Two 99(14) The Confession of Sin 99(4) Truth-Telling 103(6) Forgiveness 109(4) Walking the Third Path: Realizing Your Life Is Not about You 113(50) Mission 118(5) A Flannery O'Connor Interlude 123(13) The Cosmos 136(9) Practices for Path Three 145(18) Discerning the Will of God 145(6) The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy 151(2) Nonviolence 153(5) The Liturgy 158(5) Concluding Meditation The Strangest Way 163(6) Notes 169