{"product_id":"the-eye-of-the-storm-living-spiritually-in-the-real-world-9780060652081","title":"The Eye of the Storm: Living Spiritually in the Real World","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalling for \"a reintegration of soul and society  prayer and politics \" Kenneth Leech argues brilliantly and passionately for the essential unity of Christian spirituality and social and political commitment. Leech warns that spirituality without community \"can be a dangerous diversion from the living God.\" \"If we are to rescue Christian spirituality from its captivity to individualism and the culture of false inwardness  we will need to recover the sense of its social character  indeed  the sense of the social order of the Gospel itself.\" Here is a biblically rooted spirituality of matter and of sexuality. \"The disgust at sexuality \" writes Leech  \"or at least the uncertainty about whether Christianity really approves of it  is linked with the retreat from political involvement.... Both the flesh and the polis are seen as equally threatening  equally contaminating  to the purity of the soul\" that seeks to know and follow God in pursuit of justice for all people. To be truly Christian  the author argues  is to embrace the struggle against racism and all other forms of oppression  the movement for world peace and nuclear disarmament  and the campaign against poverty  inequality  and drug addiction. \"At its very heart the Christian life and identity is a process of incorporation into a new social organism  a new community \" writes Leech. \"Spirituality cannot exist apart from this social context.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276575367221,"sku":"ByrdShop_006065208X","price":66.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060652081.jpg?v=1780556367","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-eye-of-the-storm-living-spiritually-in-the-real-world-9780060652081","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}