{"id":3015,"date":"2007-12-21T00:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/divine-embrace-12.html"},"modified":"2007-12-21T00:20:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:20:59","slug":"divine-embrace-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/divine-embrace-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Divine Embrace 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If any one chp summarizes Robert Webber&#8217;s take on spirituality, chp 8 of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDivine-Embrace-Recovering-Passionate-Ancient-Future%2Fdp%2F0801065550%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1195748796%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Divine Embrace<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em> is it.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nThe spiritual life is a full, active and conscious participation in the purposes of God for life in the world. It is incarnational in that it is embodied participation in this world and this life &#8212; family, work and leisure. We are to imitate the life of Jesus.<br \/>\nIt is trinitarian, creational, revelational, incarnational, cruciform, resurrectional, ecclesial, liturgical, baptismal, eucharistic, missiological, pneumatological, and eschatological.<br \/>\nIt is a dying to sin and death and a rising to new life born of the Spirit.<br \/>\nWe put off and we put on &#8212; off by guarding heart, mind, will, senses, eyes, ears, tongue, imagination, and memnory and we put on love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any one chp summarizes Robert Webber&#8217;s take on spirituality, chp 8 of The Divine Embrace is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-and-formation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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