About this title: In her previous book, Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life, Sister Mary Margaret Funk, elaborating on the teaching of John Cassian, dealt with the eight classic 'thoughts' that distract us from the presence of God. In her new book, casting her net more widely, she treats more than two dozen 'tools' or practices of the spiritual life. Many of these (such as fasting, vigils, ceaseless prayer and manual labour) derive from the desert mothers and fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries, but just as many come from later times: the practices of emptiness based on The Cloud of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum
Date Published: 2004-07-30
ISBN-13:9780826416551ISBN:0826416551
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum
Date Published: 2004-07-30
ISBN-13:9780826416551ISBN:0826416551
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: continuum., new york.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780826413512ISBN:082641351X
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. no marks or defects in book. dust jacket is rumpled at front top center, a spot of moisture got on it. glued binding. paper over boards. 176 p. audience: general/trade. kathleen norris is quoted on the back of dust jacket: "although talk of 'desert monks' may seem exotic, the good news about the practices of meditation that meg speaks of in this book is that they are open to anyone....a young mother or father, a single man or woman, might find this as useful as ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
Date Published: 2004-07-30
ISBN-13:9780826416551ISBN:0826416551
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: 11/1/2001
ISBN-13:9780826413512ISBN:082641351X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CONTINUUM
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780826416551ISBN:0826416551
Description: New. Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations. Redirecting thought away from such weed... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780826413512ISBN:082641351X
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