Growth to Maturity
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1997-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
This essay is constituted of six chapters. It is quite clear that from the introduction
itself the precise goal of this essay, as to be able to live as fully and meaningful as
possible. The chapter on love extensively deals with the different aspects of love.
r-Try person has a natural built in tendency to move towards the direction of love.
Growth in love is something like physical growth. As an infant goes through
different stages of growth and achieves maturity so too a person goes through
different stages of the emotional growth and becomes a perfectly matured and
balanced person. The following chapter deals with the aspect of forgiveness. To put
it briefly this chapter explains our deep characteristics of our Christian faith and
human maturity which lie entirely on our ability to forgive unconditionally,
irrespective of the painful hurt we have been subjected to. The fourth chapter is on
freedom. The aim of this chapter is to make one free from all that keeps us as
slaves: salves to one's own passions, addictions, inclinations, and one's own undue
attachment to things and persons. This kind of freedom which one would like to
pursue in one's life best explained from the lives and thoughts of people who have
made themselves free to choose good and execute them in their lives. The following
Jiapter is on truth.The chief aim of this chapter is to uncover the inner calling of
each one to be truthful to God, to oneself and to the society at large. In this chapter
on truth I have made extraneous efforts to enrich this essay drawing examples and
inspirations of those who set aside their lives for truth. The concluding chapter is
nothing but a synthesis of the four themes I have dealt within this essay. These
four themes are judiciously selected in order to re-orientate one's entire outlook to
life into one of an integrated personality.
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Maturity, Growth, Becoming a Loving Person, Love and Self, long journey to love, emotional aspect of love, growth of love, Love as a deal, Dynamics of love, Becoming a Forgiving Person, Challenges to forgiveness, Context for reconciliation, The attitude of forgiveness, Becoming a Free Person, Human freedom and God, St. Paul's Understanding of freedom, Truth and human life, Dynamics of truth, Truth in scripture, Our adherence to truth, Gandhi and Truth