Listening to the Music of the Spirit: The Art of Discernment

Listening to the Music of the Spirit: The Art of Discernment by Lonsdale, David. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780877935070.

This technique maximizes individual openness to the force of each argument and objection, and minimizes conflict. Two insights in his last chapter are especially that Jesuit spirituality may be rooted in the individuality of the desert spirituality explained by John Cassian, and that Ignatian discernment unites the intellectual, institutional Catholic tradition with the affective, personal Protestant tradition. Some books you hand on to friends, libraries or charities; this one is a keeper.