Pilgrim Spirituality: Defining Pilgrimage Again for the First Time
Ebook
A pilgrim-themed spirituality for Christian formation, Pilgrim Spirituality resources everyday Christianity, congregational life, social outreach, and religious travel through definitional frames of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is a prominent biblical image. Yet, despite its contemporary resurgence, its capacity for Christian formation remains untapped. While our understanding of pilgrimage has been too narrow, we lack a definitional framework that fosters transformational practice. Definitions matter, thought creates possibilities, and intentionality enhances experience. Recognizing pilgrimage as a comprehensive expression of the Christian life, Pilgrim Spirituality provides tools for perceiving spiritual possibilities, engaging situational context, and interpreting lived experience. Espousing both personal and social holiness, Pilgrim Spirituality gives definitional status to the Other, attends to the self, and seeks the presence of God in the facts in which we find ourselves. Pilgrim Spirituality examines Christian concepts of time, place, and journey, while emphasizing the personal, corporate, incarnational, metaphorical, and tensional character of the pilgrim life. Exploring the motives, experiences, and practices of pilgrimage, Pilgrim Spirituality resources readers in their destinational pursuit of the Christian faith: the union of God, self, and the Other.
“Rodney Aist provides a fascinating theological and sociological look at pilgrimage and how it is a formative as well as transformative journey to God, others, and self. With broad understandings of pilgrimage, Aist helps the reader learn that pilgrimage is an ongoing journey of grace that leads us into the arms of God.”
—Karen P. Oliveto, Bishop, Mountain Sky Episcopal Area, The United Methodist Church
“This book is a masterpiece, rich in detail and full of insight. Rodney Aist unlocks the transformative power of pilgrimage, exploring the full range of its meaning and practice as an expression of embodied faith. Pilgrim Spirituality opens pathways of life, uncovering riches of faith formation that for too long have been cloistered on the margins of Christianity, but today have fresh resonance and power.”
—Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, author of Without Oars: Casting Off into a Life of Pilgrimage
- Title: Pilgrim Spirituality: Defining Pilgrimage Again for the First Time
- Author: Rodney Aist
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666709452, 9781666709445, 1666709441, 9781666709438, 1666709433, 166670945X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666709452
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-03T21:48:22Z
Rodney Aist is a Holy Land scholar with a specialty in pilgrimage and
cross-cultural ministry. The course director at St. George’s College,
Jerusalem, he teaches pilgrimage courses for lay and clergy from around
the world. A Methodist clergyperson, Rodney has served Christian
communities in Arkansas, Scotland, Italy, Jerusalem, and the Navajo
Nation. He is the cohort anchor for a doctor of ministry program in pilgrimage at Drew Theological School.