Simeon Leiva-Merikakis

Pierced by Love

Christian Living

“The monk in me skips with delight on delving into this comprehensive exploration of lectio divina by Hans Boersma. The book is exceedingly modest, conversational in tone, and yet impressively profound. It is obviously the rich fruit of both long study in the Christian (especially monastic) tradition and long personal practice of lectio. Boersma refuses to dichotomize between exegesis and mysticism, and he rightly loses interest in any approach to the revealed text that is not ultimately headed toward union with God. Desire for God, thirst for the living Christ, is Boersma’s key to biblical anthropology, and this vision everywhere informs his interpretation and application of the divine words.”

Sent Forth

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

“This slender volume, as its title indicates, is a handbook mirroring one way of living the mission of the Lord Jesus in the world today. The subject of this book, then, is the missionary method of the Saint John Society. A breath of the fervor of the early church and of the Acts of the Apostles generously blows throughout this text. The freshness and vigor of its atmosphere clearly derives from the hands-on practice of the apostolate rather than from theory.”