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"""LaBelle's From Strength to Strength is a remarkably successful book at many levels. While composed with scholarly rigor it is easily accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Although not literally a 'how-to' manual of popular piety, it offers many practical and helpful examples and insights for integrating the virtues into daily life. It also combines a historical analysis of these virtues interpreted in the light of contemporary perspectives, disciplines, and sources. I highly recommend this book for both those desiring to teach the virtues to others as well as for those seeking ways to deepen these practices in their own personal and spiritual lives."" --John J. Markey, OP, Professor of Theology, Oblate School of Theology ""Popular books in spirituality often lack depth in that they are not sufficiently grounded in Scripture and in deep wells of Christian tradition. This book is an exception. It is a wonderful work of retrieval, one that makes ancient and forgotten secrets come alive. Drawing on Scripture, the patristic writers, and the medieval mystical tradition, this book reexamines through the long arc of history seven virtues that lie at the center of Christian discipleship so as to let them speak today with their full richness. The book is a wonderful combination of scholarship and bread-and-butter spirituality."" --Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, author of The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality"

LaBelle's From Strength to Strength is a remarkably successful book at many levels. While composed with scholarly rigor it is easily accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Although not literally a 'how-to' manual of popular piety, it offers many practical and helpful examples and insights for integrating the virtues into daily life. It also combines a historical analysis of these virtues interpreted in the light of contemporary perspectives, disciplines, and sources. I highly recommend this book for both those desiring to teach the virtues to others as well as for those seeking ways to deepen these practices in their own personal and spiritual lives. --John J. Markey, OP, Professor of Theology, Oblate School of Theology Popular books in spirituality often lack depth in that they are not sufficiently grounded in Scripture and in deep wells of Christian tradition. This book is an exception. It is a wonderful work of retrieval, one that makes ancient and forgotten secrets come alive. Drawing on Scripture, the patristic writers, and the medieval mystical tradition, this book reexamines through the long arc of history seven virtues that lie at the center of Christian discipleship so as to let them speak today with their full richness. The book is a wonderful combination of scholarship and bread-and-butter spirituality. --Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, author of The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality

LaBelle's From Strength to Strength is a remarkably successful book at many levels. While composed with scholarly rigor it is easily accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Although not literally a 'how-to' manual of popular piety, it offers many practical and helpful examples and insights for integrating the virtues into daily life. It also combines a historical analysis of these virtues interpreted in the light of contemporary perspectives, disciplines, and sources. I highly recommend this book for both those desiring to teach the virtues to others as well as for those seeking ways to deepen these practices in their own personal and spiritual lives. --John J. Markey, OP, Professor of Theology, Oblate School of Theology Popular books in spirituality often lack depth in that they are not sufficiently grounded in Scripture and in deep wells of Christian tradition. This book is an exception. It is a wonderful work of retrieval, one that makes ancient and forgotten secrets come alive. Drawing on Scripture, the patristic writers, and the medieval mystical tradition, this book reexamines through the long arc of history seven virtues that lie at the center of Christian discipleship so as to let them speak today with their full richness. The book is a wonderful combination of scholarship and bread-and-butter spirituality. --Ronald Rolheiser, OMI, author of The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality

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Joseph T. LaBelle, OMI, is a professor of Christian spirituality at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. A Roman Catholic missionary priest, the author has served for several years in pastoral ministry in different regions of the United States. He has also taught in various levels of training for students preparing for consecrated religious life and ministry, and has authored one book and several articles in Christian spirituality and discipleship.

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