What is Christianity? Category:  Religion Publisher: Inner Life Publications Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 196 Copyright: Aug 1 1997 A presentation of the original essence of Christianity and its practices aimed at spiritual transformation. Translated from the original French. Excerpt The world has forgotten silence. Yet it is in silence that the world has its origin and its end. God is also silence and, since we are in His image, the depth of our being is silence. This explains the rise of anguish and fear of death at the heart of the noise which reigns in the cities and now reaches the most distant countryside and the last corners of our forests. Technology in its varied forms never ceases to invade everything and slows down for nothing. Tormented by the unconquerable yearning for our original silence, people of our time are beginning to escape into the deserts, in the retreats of monasteries or in exotic vacations, the symbols of a lost world. Faced with this general asphyxiation, it is important to have these breaths of fresh air in order to survive in the short term. But in the long term, we must learn to live fully in each moment and not only during certain spiritual experiences.

An eloquent interpretation of Christian transformation
The authors make
available in this book their own discovery of Christianity as the tradition which bears
witness to the New Covenant which God has written on the hearts of believers. Human
beings will no longer need to teach each other about God, for He will reveal Himself in their
hearts (Jeremiah 31). The translator, Theodore J. Nottingham, has given to the French text
such English idiom that one meets the authors as honored members of both the
English-speaking community and of the Christian spiritual community from whose
experience they write so eloquently.
Dr. Charles Ashanin, PhD