Commitment: Key to Christian Maturity

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Living commitment -- Call and commitment -- Living commitments faithfully -- From commitment to consecration -- Commitment and the threefold path -- Obedient living as laity -- Living poverty as laity -- Living chastely as Christian lay people -- Healing power of the threefold path -- Love and commitment -- Marital love -- Romantic love - prelude to committed love -- Dispositions of committed marital love -- Marital sexuality and spirituality -- Maturing in Christian love -- Living a committed single life in the world -- Living community -- Living community as laity -- Forming community in the Holy Spirit -- Commitment and human work -- Work consciousness in Christian laity -- Faith and work in the western world -- Functionalism and formative commitment -- The deleterious effect of homogeneity on lay formation -- Specialization as eroding spiritual unfolding -- Cultural obstacles to commitment -- Laity in the workplace -- Commitment and prayerful living as laity -- Daily deepening and spiritual frigidity -- Spiritual disciplines as avenues to committed living -- Prayer life of the laity.