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The gratitude factor [electronic resource] : enhancing your life through grateful living / Charles M. Shelton.

By: Publication details: Mahwah, N.J. : Hidden Spring, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 184 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781616436292 (electronic bk.)
  • 1616436298 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gratitude factor.DDC classification:
  • 241/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4647.G8 S54 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Why gratitude? -- Grateful reasoning -- Exploring gratitude -- Growing in gratitude -- Jesus as God's gratitude and the call to graced goodness -- Glossary : the vocabulary of gratitude.
Summary: Helps readers to reflect on the role of gratitude in their lives and to cultivate this virtue for their own benefit. The first author to offer a critique of gratitude through an explanation of various types of gratitude, Charles Shelton uses his skills as a clinical psychologist to present insights into the human experience of gratitude based on his own research. The exercises, strategies, and reflection questions threaded throughout the book give it a practical dimension that facilitates the reader's growth. Shelton's highly original reflection on Jesus as a grateful person lends a spiritual dimension to his work. This book will benefit individual readers as well as serve as a resource for spiritual direction workshops, spiritual formation courses, or ministry formation programs.--From publisher description.
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Helps readers to reflect on the role of gratitude in their lives and to cultivate this virtue for their own benefit. The first author to offer a critique of gratitude through an explanation of various types of gratitude, Charles Shelton uses his skills as a clinical psychologist to present insights into the human experience of gratitude based on his own research. The exercises, strategies, and reflection questions threaded throughout the book give it a practical dimension that facilitates the reader's growth. Shelton's highly original reflection on Jesus as a grateful person lends a spiritual dimension to his work. This book will benefit individual readers as well as serve as a resource for spiritual direction workshops, spiritual formation courses, or ministry formation programs.--From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-184).

Why gratitude? -- Grateful reasoning -- Exploring gratitude -- Growing in gratitude -- Jesus as God's gratitude and the call to graced goodness -- Glossary : the vocabulary of gratitude.

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