MODERN SPIRITUAL MASTERS

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Writings by a dozen modern spiritual masters highlight the need for an engaged spirituality, in touch with the needs of the world.

Henri Nouwen • Dorothy Day • Mother Teresa • Thea Bowman
Thomas Merton • Oscar Romero • Mohandas Gandhi • Dom Helder Camara
Mother Maria Skobtsova • Madeleine Delbrel • Howard Thurman
Catherine de Hueck Doherty

This anthology highlights stories and essential teachings of a dozen modern spiritual masters, each of whom embodied a form of engaged spirituality—attuned both to God and the needs of a wounded world. Balancing contemplation and action, the mystical and the political, prayer and compassion, these figures—including some of the world’s best-known spiritual writers—represent a model of spirituality sensitive to tradition as well as the challenges of our time.