Living the Drama of Faith

Doubt is the secret companion of all too many Christians, creeping into souls with the utmost subtlety, leaving prayer hollow and good works sullen and dispirited.

Living the Drama of Faith offers you relief from doubt — and the chance to let your faith take wing. It will bring you to a mature understanding of faith that will help you face doubts and spiritual dryness without fear. You’ll learn to leave behind the false expectations that breed doubt and that derail the faith of many believers. You’ll come to see how darkness and lack of enthusiasm may not mean that you’re losing your faith; they could actually be sure signs of your progress in loving God.

Your new, insider’s understanding of faith will make your own faith tougher and less vulnerable to assault. Indeed, Romano Guardini will show you how to stop being troubled by doubts and to let your faith grow — in the ways God wants it to grow. As you pray and live with the wisdom here, you’ll begin to develop the abiding faith that marks every truly happy soul.

Let Romano Guardini show you:

• Crises of faith: when to expect them — and how you can grow holier through them
• How a stronger faith will help you grow in all the other virtues
• Three authentic forms of faith that will draw you nearer to God
• Disillusionment: how you can defeat this ever-present scourge — once and for all
• The action of the Holy Spirit in your soul: how you can become aware of it
• Why you’ll come to know God only insofar as you come to love Him
• Three faces of God: how your experience of each can inform your faith and make it more powerful
• How study can both inform and strengthen your faith
• Dogma: how it can challenge your faith and ensure that it grows in the proper direction
• The unbreakable bond between faith and the sacraments: are you depending on it enough?
• How knowledge and experience will confirm the reality of what you believe in
• Does your faith feel cool, unenthusiastic? Why this may not be a sign of spiritual trouble
• How faith can help you make sense of Church teachings — even difficult ones
• And much more to nurture the seeds of faith that God has placed in your soul!

“A penetrating glimpse into the mystery of that communion with God which we call faith.” 
- Worship