Three by Eva Bell Werber

Rosie Perera
Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

These books would be ideal for Vyrso. The first was recommended to me by a friend, but I discovered that the author has written two others in a similar style. Devotional works, written as if God himself were speaking heart-to-heart with the reader.

Quiet Talks with the Master

The Voice of the Master

The Journey with the Master

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  • Brian Williams
    Brian Williams Member Posts: 391

    Thanks for the suggestion Rosie, I've passed the request along to our Publisher Relations team to further explore getting the ebooks into our platform. 

  • Brian Williams
    Brian Williams Member Posts: 391

    Thanks for the suggestions Rosie, we did a little more research on the publisher and discovered that they are all about finding spirituality from within and not a Christian publisher. You can read more about their beliefs here: http://www.devorss.com/about_devorss.htm. Therefore, we've decided to not pursue a relationship with them at this time. Thanks again for your suggestion!

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/581155#Comment_581155

    Ah, OK, I see. I hadn't realized that. The friend who recommended the book is a Christian and had quite a profound story of how she came upon this book and how God spoke to her through it. So I thought it was something along the lines of Come Away My Beloved, a classic Christian devotional book (published by Christian publisher Barbour), which is written as if it were God speaking to the reader. I think God can speak to a believer through all kinds of means, including non-Christian "spiritual" books, which these apparently are, but I can certainly understand why this publisher does not fit within the Logos world.

    On the other hand, the concept of communing with God deep within one's own heart/soul instead of "out there somewhere" is not completely foreign to Christian spirituality. Saint Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle is built upon that premise. "Let us consider our soul as a castle, composed entirely of diamonds, or very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions....Seldom do we consider what great things are contained in this soul, or who lives within it....In the centre of all these is the principal room, in which subjects of the greatest secrecy are discussed between God and the soul....As far as I can understand, the gate by which we are to enter this castle is prayer and consideration. I speak of mental as well as vocal [prayer]." And then there's the old favorite Christian hymn, He Lives: "You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart!"

    But poking around a bit in the Kindle version of this first book, I do agree that it's not Christian in its fundamental outlook. Sorry for the distraction. We return to our regularly scheduled programming...

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