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    • Our vision
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    • Books on Spirituality
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    • Pamphlets and Chapters
    • Educational websites
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    • 1. Learning to survive
      • origins
      • into gaping jaws
      • from the pincers of death
      • my father
      • my mother
      • my rules for survival
    • 2. Thinking for myself
      • seeking love
      • learning to think
      • what kind of priest?
      • training for battle
      • clash of minds
      • lessons on the way to India
    • 3.1 MISSION IN INDIA – building ‘church’
      • St John’s Seminary Hyderabad
      • Andhra Pradesh
      • Jyotirmai – spreading light
      • Indian Liturgy
      • Sisters’ Formation in Jeevan Jyothi
      • Helping the poor
    • 3.2 MISSION IN INDIA – creating media
      • Amruthavani
      • Background to the Gospels
      • Storytelling
      • Bible translation
      • Film on Christ: Karunamayudu
      • The illustrated life of Christ
    • 3.3 MISSION IN INDIA – ‘body’
      • spotting the octopus
      • the challenge
      • screwed up sex guru
      • finding God in a partner?
      • my code for sex and love
  • LIFE STORY 1976-1998
    • 4. Mill Hill Society
      • My job at Mill Hill
      • Recruitment and Formation
      • The future of mission
      • Returned Missionaries
      • Brothers and Associates
    • 5.1 HOUSETOP LONDON
      • Planning my work
      • Teaching
      • Pakistan
      • Biblical Spirituality
      • Searching God in our modern world
      • ARK2 Christian Television
    • 5.2 RELIGIOUS SECTS
      • Sects & Cults
      • Wisdom from the East?
      • Masters of Deception
    • 5.3 VIDEO COURSES
      • Faith formation through video
      • Our Spirituality Courses
      • Walking on Water
      • My Galilee My People
      • Together in My Name
      • I Have No Favourites
      • How to Make Sense of God
  • LIFE STORY 1999-2025
    • 6. My Resignation
      • Preamble
      • Publicity
      • Reaction in India
      • Mill Hill responses
      • The Vatican
    • 7. JACKIE
      • childhood
      • youth and studies
      • finding God
      • Mission in India
      • Housetop apostolate
      • poetry
      • our marriage
      • tribute to Jackie
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    • Jackie’s life story
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Books on Spirituality by John Wijngaards

Home Books on Spirituality by John Wijngaards

review references are incomplete

Books 1 – 10 are in Academic Book list

11

ONLINE

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF GOD, Sheed & Ward (USA) and Housetop (UK) 1995.

Won a Catholic Press Association of America award in 1996. Indian edition in 1998. Has been translated into Dutch (Kok, Kampen1999).

UK edition

12, 13 & 14

ONLINE

UK editionUK editionThree biblical study books for parishes and schools:

  1. MY GALILEE, MY PEOPLE, Housetop 1990, 208 pgs.;
  2. TOGETHER IN MY NAME, Housetop 1991, 208 pgs.;
  3. I HAVE NO FAVOURITES, Housetop 1992, 208 pgs.

Local language editions of these books have been published in Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, French Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, India, Korea, the Philippines, Colombia, the USA (Paulist Press).

UK edition

15

ONLINE GOD WITHIN US, Collins Fount Original, London 1988, 176 pgs; USA edition: Templegate, Illinois 1990.

Reviewed in: Sunday Plus, 9 July 1989, p. 1; Review for Contemplatives Autumn 1989.

‘GOD WITHIN US’ CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

UK edition

16

ONLINE

INHERITING THE MASTER’S CLOAK, Creative Biblical Spirituality, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana 1985, 191 pgs.

Indian Edition, ATC, Bangalore 1986; Chinese edition, Taipei 1987; Philippino edition, Divine Word Publications, Manila 1987. Won a Catholic Press Association Award for “Best Adult Spiritual Reading” (1986).

Reviewed in: Emmanuel 92 (1986) pp. 418-419; Spirituality Today Spring 1987, pp. 89-90; The Way January 1987, p. 70; Pulpit Digest 46 (1986) p. 442; Sisters Today March 1986, p. 421; Modern Liturgy 13 (1986) p. 32; Prairie Messenger 6 October 1986, p. 15; The Catholic SUN 30 July 1986; Zealandia 10 August 1986; St Cloud Visitor 31 October 1985.

UK edition

17

ONLINE THE SEVEN CIRCLES OF PRAYER, McCrimmon, Great Wakering 1987, 46 pp. UK edition

18

ONLINE JESUS FOR EVER. FACT
AND FAITH
, Catholic Truth Society, London 1987; Indian edition by St. Paul’s , Bombay 1987.

Online sections of Jesus for Ever:

  1. Faith and Science
  2. Historicity of the Resurrection
  3. Reliability of the Gospels
  4. Who was Jesus?

‘JESUS FOR EVER’ CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

UK edition

19

ONLINE

EXPERIENCING JESUS, “Scripture, the witness of saints and mystics, and a life of prayer show the way”, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame Indiana 1981 (2 printings totalling 26,000 copies), 176 pgs.

Published in India as Come and See, TPI, Bangalore 1981 (3 prints, 15,000 copies). Chinese edition, Hong Kong 1984; Philippino edition, Divine Word Publications, Manila 1987; Dutch edition, Unistad, Antwerp 1991.

Indian edition reviewed in: Indian Journal of Theology vol 30 (198o) pp.228-229; US edition RP Bookreview vol 5 (January 1982) no1, p.1; Book Nook February 1982, p. 1; The Priest, vol 38 (February 1982) p. 46; The Universe, April 23 1982; New Covenant, April 1982 pp.28-29; Good News, May 1982; Mississippi Today, May 21, 1982, p.12; Homiletic & Pastoral Review, July 1982, pp. 78-79; Theology Digest 1982 p. 100; Review of Books and Religion, vol 10 (1982) p. 13; Companion, January 1983 pp. 22-23.

UK edition

20

READING GOD’S WORD TO OTHERS, ATC, Bangalore 1973, 104 pgs; McCrimmons, Great Wakering 1981; Dutch edition, KBS, Boxtel 1974.

Indian edition reviewed in ATC News 2 (1973) p. 18; New Leader 2s-9-1973; The Living Word 79 (1973) pp. 383-384; Clergy Monthly 38 (1973) pp. 89-90; Dutch edition De Bazuin 31 Januari 1975; Werkboek voor Liturgiegroepen 1975, p. 20; UK edition The Tablet 23 January 1982, p. 89; The Universe, 22 January 1982; The Clergy Review May 1982, pp. 226-227; Liturgy, vol 6 (1982) pp. 132-133; Word Event vol 13 (1983) p. 30.

UK edition

21

GOD’S WORD TO ISRAEL, A Treatise on the Historicity of the Old Testament, Theological
Publications India, Ranchi 1971 (3 editions).

22

ONLINE

BACKGROUND TO THE GOSPELS, St. Paul’s Publications, New Delhi 1970; enlarged edition by TPI, Bangalore 1978, 344 pgs. (in India 8 printings totalling 30,000 copies).

UK edition, McCrimmons, Great Wakering 1979 (3 printings); Indian local language editions in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi; USA edition, Servant Publications, Ann Arbor 1980; Pakistan edition (Urdu), Rawalpindi 1992.

1974 Indian edition reviewed in: New Testament Abstracts 22 (1978) p. 215; 1980 UK edition The Tablet 26 April 1980; the Sower 4 (1980) pp. 6-8; Association of Religious Education 1980; 1983 US edition Homiletic & Pastoral Review April 1984, pp. 78-79; Catholic Digest 1984.

UK edition

23

BRATHUKU BAATA, Meditations on Old Testament Laws, translated into Telegu by P. Innayya and G. Balthazar, published by Amruthavani, Secunderabad 1978, 198 pp.

24

MUKTI MARGAMU, Course for adult catechumens, written in Telegu with the help of students of St. John Seminary, Amruthavani, Hyderabad 1976, 394 pp.

25

ONLINE CHRIST’S IDEA OF AUTHORITY, Meditations on Scripture. Amruthavani, Hyderabad 1975, 67 pp. ; Telugu edition as “Srisabhalô Âdikâram“, Secunderabad 1976. UK edition

26

ONLINE WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM SECULAR EFFICIENCY?, Thoughts for Those Engaged in the Apostolate,
St. Paul Publications, New Delhi 1969, 100 pp.
UK edition

Overview of all publications:

Academic books Books 1 – 10
Spirituality for a wider audience Books 11 – 26
Fiction & screen plays Books 27 – 28
Articles in magazines and newspapers
Pamphlets & Chapters in Books

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

  • » FOREWORD
  • » Part One. LEARNING TO SURVIVE
  • » origins
  • » into gaping jaws
  • » from the pincers of death
  • » my father
  • » my mother
  • » my rules for survival
  • » Part Two. SUBMIT TO CLERICAL DOGMA — OR THINK FOR MYSELF?
  • » seeking love
  • » learning to think
  • » what kind of priest?
  • » training for battle
  • » clash of minds
  • » lessons on the way to India
  • » Part Three (1). INDIA - building 'church'
  • » St John's Seminary Hyderabad
  • » Andhra Pradesh
  • » Jyotirmai – spreading light
  • » Indian Liturgy
  • » Sisters' Formation in Jeevan Jyothi
  • » Helping the poor
  • » Part Three (2). INDIA – creating media
  • » Amruthavani
  • » Background to the Gospels
  • » Storytelling
  • » Bible translation
  • » Film on Christ: Karunamayudu
  • » The illustrated life of Christ
  • » Part Three (3). INDIA - redeeming 'body'
  • » spotting the octopus
  • » the challenge
  • » screwed up sex guru
  • » finding God in a partner?
  • » my code for sex and love
  • » Part Four. MILL HILL SOCIETY
  • » My job at Mill Hill
  • » The future of missionary societies
  • » Recruitment and Formation
  • » Returned Missionaries
  • » Brothers and Associates
  • » Part Five. HOUSETOP LONDON
  • » Planning my work
  • » Teaching teaching
  • » Pakistan
  • » Biblical Spirituality
  • » Searching God in our modern world
  • » ARK2 Christian Television
  • » Part Five (2) New Religious Movements
  • » Sects & Cults
  • » Wisdom from the East?
  • » Masters of Deception
  • » Part Five (3). VIDEO COURSES
  • » Faith formation through video
  • » Our Spirituality Courses
  • » Walking on Water
  • » My Galilee My People
  • » Together in My Name
  • » I Have No Favourites
  • » How to Make Sense of God
  • » Part Six (1). RESIGNATION
  • » Publicity
  • » Preamble
  • » Reaction in India
  • » Mill Hill responses
  • » The Vatican
  • » Part 6 (2). JACKIE
  • » childhood
  • » youth and studies
  • » finding God
  • » Mission in India
  • » Housetop apostolate
  • » poetry
  • » our marriage

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