This is the 20th anniversary edition of Continuum's best-selling spiritual classic, which has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions (Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese). The new edition consists of a substantial new preface, an expanded ...
In the course of numerous workshops and retreats Father Keating is asked many questions regarding contemplative practice. How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually? What obstacles will I encounter along the way? How does it work? As Keating answers, this book is "an attempt to provide a road map, as it were, for the journay ...
Following upon Open Mind, Open Heart, which presents a profound formation in Christian prayer, this book demonstrates the contemplative dimension of Christian worship. Here Father Keating recovers the deeper sense of the liturgical year and shares a theological and mystical perspective on the major feasts of the annual cycle. The reader is ...
The author stirs the imagination with insightful commentary on the parables. Although originally told to people in a vastly different world, these stories are timeless and have much to say to all of us here and now.
This reader brings together for each day of the year three prayer practices for contemplative living: first, a brief "active prayer"; second, spiritual reading; and, third, Lectio Divina. The brief introductory prayer sentences are from various sources - the Bible and traditional prayers of the church or of well-known spiritual writers. The ...
This beautiful gift book contains over 140 brief selections from four of Father Keating's most popular works, including the best selling "Open Mind, Open Heart". An application of this book is using it as a 'minute book,' a recommendation of Father Keating's. He suggests one carry in pocket or purse a 'series of short readings - a sentence or two, ...
Keating discusses the principles of contemplative prayer--the retreat into the "inner room" mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6. In the inner room, God acts as a divine therapist, healing us and forcing us to recognize how many barriers we put up between ourselves and God. Steiner Books
Known to many Christians for his work as a founder of the Centring Prayer movement, Thomas Keating stands in the tradition of Thomas Merton as an exponent of meditation and inter-religious dialogue. In this book he discusses the "awakenings" that spiritual growth can bring about.
In the darkest hour of the darkest age, Christian monks developed a meditation tradition unique in the Western world. A 14thcentury author described their profound mystical experience as entering "the cloud of unknowing." Yet during the 500 years after this great monastic flowering, this precious tradition-and the direct path to union with God it ...
Keating examines key events in the ministry of Jesus, the important parables recorded, and the many celebrations of his presence, in these incisive Scriptural reflections. A valuable and inspiring companion for one's meditative journey from one of America's best spiritual writers.
In this book, Father Thomas Keating explores the tragedy of September 11 from the perspective of Christ-consciousness and its continuing emergence in the world. Even as he describes the attacks of that day as the culmination of all of the last century's growing violence and disregard for innocent life, he shows us how to recognize the resultant ...
This volume contains three works by Thomas Keating on centring prayer. "Open Mind, Open Heart" aims to lead the reader into a deep, living relationship with God. Keating gives an overview of the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, and step-by-step guidance in the method of centring prayer. Special attention is paid to the ...
It can be a purley intellectual exercise in the Aristotelian or Platonic sense where the soul focuses on certain values like goodness or being in an effort to reach the highest understanding of these values.
Back in print with a new Introduction. The freshness of this approach to the practice of prayer is as valuable today as it was when first published in 1981.
Some of the leading practitioners of centering prayerthe contemporary expression of the Christian contemplative tradition as developed by the desert fathers and mothers and elaborated by mystics such as saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avilawrite about the many and varied benefits of this dynamic and intimate means of connecting with the ...
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Abbot Joseph Boyle, Father Theophane Boyd, Father William Meninger, and Abbot Thomas Keating as they ...
An examination of contemplative prayer, and its impediments. Meninger, a Trappist monk, uses the 14th-century spiritual work, "The Cloud of Unknowing," as the text around which he frames his own book.
The talks on which this book was based were given at the John Main Seminar in 1998, the annual international event of the World Community for Christian Meditation. Previous presenters have included the Dalai Lama, Jean Vanier, Bede Griffiths, and William Johnston. Father Keating's enlightening commentary on the contemplative meaning of the gospel, ...
In his final book--a lasting testament to his love for the Holy Land and the Jewish and Palestinian people--the beloved Cistercian monk, who passed away in 2005, meditates on his travels to Nazareth, Mt. Sinai, and other sites in the Holy Land. Six photos. Map. (Catholic)
Working from the experiences of the later mystics Keating offers the spiritual sense of scripture elaborated by the Fathers and Mothers of the Church, which has been used repeatedly to illustrate insights useful to the various stages of spiritual development. This rich storytelling tradition traces a spiritual journey, outlining a way of listening ...
As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes centre stage. This collection presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools which promote a critical ...
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A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament, and other early Christian literature; a translation and adaptation of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der übringen urchristlichen Literatur, 4th rev...
