About this title: The first book to explain the popular Christian practice of the examen prayer. Fr. Gallagher takes us deeper into the prayer Ignatius of Loyola believed was at the center of the spiritual life, showing how relevant it is today.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Crossroad Pub Co
Date Published: 2006-06-30
ISBN-13:9780824523671ISBN:0824523679
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CROSSROADS
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780824523671ISBN:0824523679
Description: New. The first book to explain the popular Christian practice of the examen prayer. Fr. Gallagher takes us deeper into the prayer Ignatius of Loyola believed was at the center of the spiritual life, showing how relevant it is today. read more
"We all long for intimacy. People get married and yet never get intimate. They may stick to each other physically and still, sadly they don't get intimate. This book is about having intimacy on the level of the divine. Fr Gallagher is taking us for a great start as he quotes from Maureen Conroy's book "The discerning heart" a statement that is absolutely indispensable for intimacy to occur with God, same with people. "Growth in relationship with God occurs through mutual self-revelation". Yes, mutual self-revelation and no less! How often wives marry men and the man is like a closed book, a world to his own, etc.! No intimacy in a real sense. In order for this intimacy to occur there has to be mutual self-revelation. Can I tell who I am and not be afraid and still feel secure? This can happen with our Heavenly Father. He took the initiative of self-revelation when he is a hidden God and we can't know everything about him (Isa. 45: 12).
The further I went away from his quote of Maureen Conroy, the less I liked the book for the following reasons: The author "judges" experiences of people in terms of objective and subjective when the whole thing in prayer is purely subjective and there is nothing wrong with that. But because he is the kind of author that gets called onto to give seminars on prayer, he ended up being "methodical", "systematic", etc. Symptoms that strike me as characteristic of American thinking where everything has steps and judged as "valid" or "invalid". Reading this book I felt he is using a yardstick for determining how to do it and do it right. We are talking about spiritual matters. I also disliked the book being writing as if it is a seminary student writing a research paper and he finally gets an A on the paper. Do we treat subjects of spirituality as research papers?!
That is why I am turning instead towards the writings of Maureen Conroy and we shall see."
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