A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
Brennan Manning, "A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred"
English | ISBN: 0060000694 | 2003 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0060000694 | 2003 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Following his work on the unconditional love of God in The Wisdom of Tenderness, bestselling Christian writer Brennan Manning now turns to the life and work of Jesus to find an answer to what he believes is the most pressing spiritual problem of our age: self-hatred. The damage caused by this problem is immense. We project it onto God, believing God could never love us because we are unlovable, or we expect an unattainable perfection of ourselves and are left drowning in shame. But Manning warns us that we can't look to ourselves if we want to understand God's love: "The Love of the Father for his children plunges us into mystery, because it is utterly beyond the pale of human experience."
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