Summary

When he loses his son and his wife in childbirth James is totally bereft. An introduction to a hermit gradually changes his life irrevocably. Although the Hermit turns out to be a Roman Catholic, James finds he can completely identify with his profound spirituality, precisely because it is so scriptural and drawn from the same Christian Masters who had originally inspired him.

 This book comprises in one volume The Hermit, The Prophet and The Mystic, last published in separate volumes by Hodder and Stoughton in England and by Alba House in America. All the reviews of these books therefore can be read as endorsements of Wisdom from the Western Isles too. However David has spent over a year rewriting the earlier works to make them far more ecumenical and simplifying them to make them more readable for a lay readership as they have been fused into one book. All obscure passages have been eliminated and more material has been added making the book into what he sees as his life’s work. Indeed the work has taken the author forty years of personal lived experience of the spiritual life and almost as many years rewriting and honing it contents.   Interest in prayer and the spiritual has risen to new heights in recent years however many odd and exocentric misinterpretations of the authentic Christian tradition have mislead all too many serious searchers into spiritual cul-de-sacs. This book has been written as an engaging page-turner to present the true tradition to a modern readership and to lure those who have been misled back to ancient spiritual traditions that have successfully nourished the faith of Christians from the beginning.

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