The Challenge of Faith

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The Challenge of Faith

by: John Powell

In today's world, we strive for meaning and achieving authentic spirituality. Perhaps the scope of our faith journey is without parallel in any period of history. Author John Powell, S.J., addresses this quest for meaning in The Challenge of Faith. In facing the question of faith, Powell emphasizes that we need an open mind, one that is willing to rethink, revise and re-evaluate. Stepping out into faith is the moment of choice that marks an inner awareness of what God is doing in our lives.

Over a career spanning thirty years, John Powell has sold more than fifteen million books that have been translated into twenty-two languages.

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Binding: Paperback

ISBN 13: 9780883474259

ISBN 10: 0883474255

copyright:January 1998 108 Pages Publisher:Thomas More

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About the author 

John Joseph Powell, (September 22, 1925, Chicago, Illinois – September 24, 2009, Clarkston, Michigan) was a Jesuit priest and author, and brother of Rita Donlan and William Powell.

He received elementary-school education at the John B. Murphy public school in Chicago. In June 1943, Powell graduated from the Loyola Academy in Chicago. In August 1943, he entered the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio. In the fall of 1947, he began a three-year course in philosophy at West Baden College, and enrolled in Loyola University, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree the following June. He began graduate work at Loyola in 1948 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1956.

Powell worked at West Baden University (1961-1965), the Bellarmine School of Theology of Loyola University (1965-1968) and Loyola University (1968-2001)^] where he became an associate professor of theology and psychology. Powell was a proponent of humanistic Catholicism and wrote many books mostly dealing with psychology and Catholic theology, and conducted spiritual retreats along with his counseling work.