Growing in Love and Wisdom

• Uniquely tailors Buddhist meditation techniques to Christian usage
• Includes guided meditations as a practical explanation of the book's arguments
• Written by an author who has practiced as both a Tibetan Buddhist and a Catholic

Readership: The Christian meditation/contemplative community including both practitioners and faculty who teach theology with a spiritual component; scholars of comparative religion; those who engage in religious/spiritual ministry

Susan J. Stabile, Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law

Susan Stabile is the Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis. She is also a spiritual director, trained in the Ignatian tradition.

Introduction
Part I: How We Think about Other Faith Traditions
Chapter 1: The Value of Interreligious Dialogue
Chapter 2: Core Truths that Operate Across Faith Traditions
Part II: Adapting Prayer Practices from Another Faith Tradition
Chapter 3: The Importance of Contemplation and Affective Experience
Chapter 4: Why Look to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation?
Part III: Analytical Meditations and Commentary
Chapter 5: Friend, Enemy, Stranger
Chapter 6: Tonglen
Chapter 7: Kindness of (M)other Sentient Beings
Chapter 8: Exchanging Self and Others
Chapter 9: The Four Immeasurables
Chapter 10: Meditation on Compassion
Chapter 11: Giving the Four Elements
Chapter 12: Perfect Human Rebirth
Chapter 13: Death
Chapter 14: Impermanence
Chapter 15: Overcoming Anger
Chapter 16: The Eight Worldly Concerns
Chapter 17: Taking Refuge
Chapter 18: Emanating as the Deity
Chapter 19: Meditating on the I
Part IV: Other Meditations and Practices
Chapter 20: Meditations to Develop Concentration and Mindfulness
Chapter 21: Other Practices
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for further reading