The Enneagram A Christian Perspective

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Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Crossroad
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Summary

Richard Rohr and Andrea Ebert's runaway best-seller shows both the basic logic of the Enneagram and its harmony with the core truths of Christian thought from the time of the early Church forward.

Author Biography

Richard Rohr, a Franciscan of the Cincinnati Province, is an internationally known retreat master, speaker, and writer. Presently he is the director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has conducted workshops on the Enneagram for over a decade. Andreas Ebert is a Lutheran minister, hymn writer, and translator into German of books by Richard Rohr, Walter Wink and Jim Wallis.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Mirror of the Soul ix
Andreas Ebert
Preface: Discernment: How to See, How to Hear xv
Richard Robr
Part I THE SLEEPING GIANT
A Dynamic Typology
3(3)
The Mystery of the Number 153
6(8)
Ramon Lull, 1236-1315
14(7)
Breakthrough to the Totally Other
21(1)
A Cardinal Wakes Up
22(1)
A Sobering Aha-Experience
23(2)
Gifted Sinners
25(3)
The Truth Is Simple and Beautiful
28(1)
People Are Creatures of Habit
29(2)
Obsessions
31(1)
The Way to Self-Worth
31(1)
Wrong Ways and Ways Out
32(3)
The Three Centers: Gut, Heart, Head
35(4)
The Nine Faces of the Soul
39(6)
Part II THE NINE TYPES
Preface to Part II: Original Sin
45(4)
Richard Robr
Type One: The Need to Be Perfect
49(14)
Type Two: The Need to Be Needed
63(18)
Type Three: The Need to Succeed
81(17)
Type Four: The Need to Be Special
98(17)
Type Five: The Need to Perceive
115(16)
Type Six: The Need for Security
131(15)
Type Seven: The Need to Avoid Pain
146(16)
Type Eight: The Need to Be Against
162(16)
Type Nine: The Need to Avoid
178(21)
Part III INNER DIMENSIONS
Repentance and Reorientation
199(10)
Idealized Self-Image and Guilt Feelings
209(2)
Temptation, Avoidance, Resistance
211(2)
The Triple Continuum
213(14)
Growing with the Enneagram
227(5)
Jesus and the Enneagram
232(14)
The Enneagram and Prayer
246(1)
The End of Determinism
247(4)
An Enneagram Sermon on Christmas
251(4)
Dietrich Koller
The Repentance No One Regrets: Prespectives on Spiritual Work
255(11)
Dietrich Koller
Notes 266(15)
Index 281(13)
Summary Tables 294

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