How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine - Softcover

Coutinho SJ, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829432949 ISBN 13: 9780829432947

Publisher: Loyola Press, 2010

Synopsis

Do you have a real relationship with God, or do you just have a religion? Do you know God, or do you just know about God? In How Big Is Your God? Paul Coutinho, SJ, challenges us to grow stronger and deeper in our faith and in our relationship with God—a God whose love knows no bounds. To help us on our way, Coutinho introduces us to people in various world religions—from Hindu friends to Buddhist teachers to St. Ignatius of Loyola—who have shaped his spiritual life and made possible his deep, personal relationship with God.

About this title

Book Description:

Deepen your experience of God by moving from religion to relationship.

Paul Coutinho, SJ, is an Indian Jesuit priest with a genial sense of humor and a penchant for asking deeply thought-provoking spiritual questions: Do you have a real relationship with God, or do you just have a religion? Do you know God, or do you just know about God? Do you worry about the smallest things, or do you trust God to help you through even the biggest things? Have you ever considered believing in a God without limits, a God powerful enough to enable you to think, love, and live differently?
In How Big Is Your God? Fr. Coutinho challenges us to grow stronger and deeper in our faith by embracing a God whose love knows no bounds. To help us on our way, Coutinho introduces us to his Hindu friends who put him on the path to mysticism; to his Buddhist teachers who broke open his limited views of the divine; to Viktor Frankl, Desmond Tutu, and other enlightened guides who led him to a far more meaningful spiritual life; and to St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises continue to shape his reflection and prayer life.
Each short chapter in this book will draw readers with an open mind and a longing heart into a closer relationship with God and will encourage them to experience the infinite breadth of God in a deeply personal way.
 

From the Back Cover:

Deepen your experience of God by moving from religion to relationship

Do you have a relationship with God, or do you just have a religion? Do you know God, or do you just know about God? Do you believe in a God without limits, or have you placed God in a box and sealed the lid?
    In How Big Is Your God? Indian Jesuit priest Paul Coutinho asks each of us to carefully consider questions such as these. With his warm sense of humor and a talent for telling just the right story to drive home a point, Coutinho guides us to reconsider who God is and how we can have fellowship with God beyond anything we have imagined.
    The immensely powerful yet eminently readable wisdom in How Big Is Your God? will move us past religion as we know it and toward a relationship with God that can change the way we think, love, and live!

“Coutinho draws on Eastern religious traditions, blending them with his own Catholic practice to challenge and deepen readers’ understandings of God.”
Publishers Weekly

“If you have ever suspected that ‘religion’ is way too small a container for the mystery we call God, this book is for you!”
Margaret Silf, author of Inner Compass

Deepen your experience of God by moving from religion to relationship

Do you have a relationship with God, or do you just have a religion? Do you know God, or do you just know about God? Do you believe in a God without limits, or have you placed God in a box and sealed the lid?
    In How Big Is Your God? Indian Jesuit priest Paul Coutinho asks each of us to carefully consider questions such as these. With his warm sense of humor and a talent for telling just the right story to drive home a point, Coutinho guides us to reconsider who God is and how we can have fellowship with God beyond anything we have imagined.
    The immensely powerful yet eminently readable wisdom in How Big Is Your God? will move us past religion as we know it and toward a relationship with God that can change the way we think, love, and live!

“Coutinho draws on Eastern religious traditions, blending them with his own Catholic practice to challenge and deepen readers’ understandings of God.”
Publishers Weekly

“If you have ever suspected that ‘religion’ is way too small a container for the mystery we call God, this book is for you!”
Margaret Silf, author of Inner Compass
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0829432949
• ISBN 13: 9780829432947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184