Biblical commentaries 

Adrian van Kaam, the renowned spiritual writer and one of the world's leading psychologists, uses the Gospel narrative of the meeting of Jesus with the Samaritan woman as a creative and vivid illustration of how Bible reading can be done in an interesting, refreshingly different and spiritually helpful way.
There are, Father van Kaam shows, many spiritual lessons contained in the event recited by St. John. Father van Kaam's poetic as well as practical approach to these lessons offers us many practical applications to our daily life as Christians. Each Chapter summarizes traditional as well as contemporary scriptural insight into one aspect of the event, and ends with an inspiring prayer that capsulizes the lesson of the Chapter. This is a necessary volume for the library of every minister, priest, teacher of religion, retreat master, spiritual director, Director of Formation and indeed every Christian, since it is a valuable tool to help each one arrive at a prayerful presence to the Scriptures.
But it is much more. It is an instruction in formative Scripture reading: it helps the reader learn the art and discipline of a meditative reading of the Scripture and is a fervent call to all Christians to make the Bible an essential part of their lives.