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The enneagram, a Christian perspective, Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert ; translated by Peter Heinegg

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-280) and index

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The enneagram

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Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert ; translated by Peter Heinegg

a Christian perspective

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

Preface : A mirror of the soul / Andreas Ebert -- Preface : Discernment : how to see, how to hear / Richard Rohr -- PART I : The sleeping giant. A dynamic typology -- The mystery of the number 153 -- Ramon Lull, 1236-1315 -- Breakthrough to the totally other -- A cardinal wakes up -- A sobering aha-experience -- Gifted sinners -- The truth is simple and beautiful -- People are creatures of habit -- Obsessions -- The way to self-worth -- Wrong ways and ways out -- The three centers : gut, heart, head -- The nine faces of the soul -- -- PART II : The nine types. Preface to part II : Original sin / Richard Rohr -- Type one : The need to be perfect -- Type two : The need to be needed -- Type three : The need to succeed -- Type four : The need to be special -- Type five : The need to perceive -- Type six : The need for security -- Type seven : The need to avoid pain -- Type eight : The need to be against -- Type nine : The need to avoid -- -- PART III : Inner dimensions. Repentance and reorientation -- Idealized self-image and guilt feelings -- Temptation, avoidance, resistance -- The triple continuum -- Growing with the enneagram -- Jesus and the enneagram -- The enneagram and prayer -- The end of determinism -- An enneagram sermon on Christmas / Dietrich Koller -- The repentance no one regrets : perspectives on spiritual work / Dietrich Koller