How to Turn the Other Cheek and Still Survive in Today's World

by Suzette Haden Elgin

Book Overview

In How to Turn the Other Cheek and Still Survive in Today's World, linguistics expert Dr. Suzette Haden Elgin teaches you the skills to handle the "blows" that come your way without sacrificing your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785272496
• ISBN13: 9780785272496
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Nelsonword Publishing Group
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I found this book useful enough to specficy it for a class.

I'm teaching graduate students in dispute resolution. The information in this book, especially the sensory mode matching, is extremely useful on a practical level.

shows us how to practice what we preach!!

Most people sort of uncomfortably gloss over Jesus' words about turning the other cheek. We think of Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. and conclude that we're not "spiritual" enough to live out his teachings. Or maybe the conflicts we encounter are just too messy, to wrapped up with "the way the world works" to have anything to do with this spiritual stuff. Elgin shows that Jesus was not commanding passivity, but instead encouraging us to respond actively and lovingly to those "difficult" people in our lives -- even those who have power over us. Her approach combines decent biblical wisdom with sophisticated knowledge of human communication to produce a really practical guide to all kinds of everyday conflicts.