Title: I Will Give Them a New Heart: Reflections on the Priesthood and the Renewal of the Church  Author: Conrad W. Baars  ISBN: 0-8189-1245-6  Paperback: xxxv + 268 pp.  Price: $18.95 + shipping  To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master, Visa or American Express card ready. To order online click here.

Addressing the needs of the faithful necessitates addressing the needs of those who bring Christ to us in a special way - priests, religious and consecreated persons. In a time burdened with doubt, mistrust, and suspicion of the Church and those who serve her, Dr. Baars presents profound insight to aid laypersons, priests and religious in order to help usher in a new springtime of life into the Church. "In seeking remedies for the trials and scandals that plague the Church in the world, the lessons contained in this book should be placed in the hands of every bishop and major religious superior. The analysis of the mental and emotional causes and effective remedies of these problems presented by Anna Terruwe and Conrad Baars have been praised by Pope Paul VI and John Paul II. In basing their scientific principles upon revelation, the teaching of the Church and the philosophies of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi, they present lessons that obviously are founded upon a message presented by God through His beloved disciple John: that 'God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son'... and that this 'God of Love' is the Source of Affirmation and healing." Rev. Gervase Cain, T.O.R.

 

Conrad W. Baars, M.D. (1919-1981) was a native of the Netherlands but practiced psychiatry in the United States from 1946 until his death. Educated at Oxford University and the University of Amsterdam Medical School, Dr. Baars served in the anti-Nazi underground in Belgium, France, and Holland during World War II. Captured by the Nazis he spent two years in Buchenwald Concentration Camp. During the Korean War he served in the American Army as a medical officer. He discovered Dr. Anna A. Terruwe's work on energy and frustration neuroses in the mid-1950s and developed and promoted it throughout his psychiatric career. His books include Born Only Once, Feeling & Healing Your Emotions, The Psychology of Obedience, The Unquiet Heart (Alba House, 1991), and his autobiography, Doctor of the Heart (Alba House, 1996). Dr. Baars and Dr. Terruwe co-authored Psychic Wholeness and Healing (Alba House, 1981). Reviews Top of Page