Against an Infinite Horizon: The Finger of God in Our Everyday Lives
Filled with personal anecdotes, healing wisdom, and fresh reflections on scripture, Against an Infinite Horizon, one of Fr. Ronald Rolheiser’s most beloved books, leads us to a deeper experience of the beauty and poetry of Christian spirituality.
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Rolheiser points readers to the proximity of God in the seeming insignificance of life. He sheds new light on issues such as marriage and family life and the presence of God, loneliness and sexuality, language and prayer, and most of all, the all-encompassing, unconditional love of God.
AcknowledgementsPreface1Seeing the creature against the horizon of the creator - the bigger picture12Visible, perceptible, effective proximities of God - being blessed into life163The torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable - loneliness, longing, and sexuality314Receive, give thanks, break, share - the eucharist as the sustenance of daily life465A good fireplace, a warm house, moral companionship, and sacramental sex - the sacrament of marriage616From womb to womb, mother to mother - mortality, death, resurrection767Walking justly and not just piously - the call to social justice908Walking honestly and finding our souls among the little ones - the call to humility1059Structure and soul, anger and grief, men and women - the river of gender12010A love beyond our understanding - the wild, unconditional love of God13511Poets, imagination, the mother tongue, and religious language - paschal imagination15012Praying in life and letting life pray through us - a Vespers for the world165
