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Author : Laurence Freeman
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254190
A collection of essays that demonstrate the breadth and depth of John Main's thought and it's increasing relevance in the world.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254169
A reissue of this classic collection of writings by John Main, exploring the benefits of silent prayer and Christian meditation
Author : Sicco Claus
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643915115
Pilgrimage into God: A Study of John Main's Meditation-Oriented Spirituality is a comprehensive investigation of the heritage of the Benedictine monk John Main (1926 -1982). This founder of a worldwide movement for Christian meditation understands meditation as an intentional transcending of all mental processes. Contrary to popular opinion, which associates meditation uniquely with Eastern traditions, Main considers meditative practice to be essential and central to Christian faith. This study not only explores Main's views on practise, but also looks into his theology, his understanding of spiritual growth and the (ideal) contexts for achieving such growth. It does this by critically situating Main's spiritual teaching within the Christian tradition and exploring its relation to Charles Taylor's interpretation of the modern spiritual condition. This study also aims at exploring how Main's heritage may contribute to illuminating Christian spiritual life today.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781608335145
Author : John Main OSB
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848255593
Fully Alive is a new, previously unpublished collection of talks by one of the 20th centurys most influential spiritual teachers: the Benedictine monk, John Main OSB, who reintroduced the practice of contemplative prayer to the church in the West lost since the era of the Desert Fathers. While living as a monk in India, he was struck by the meditative quality of Eastern religions and sought to introduce the prayer of silence into his own Benedictine tradition. In what was a radical move at the time, he created an open monastic community where lay people came to learn meditative prayer. This, like his other bestselling books, is made up of the simple and inviting talks that drew hundreds of groups right up to his death in 1982. Today, through the worldwide network he founded (the World Community for Christian Meditation) and other emerging groups like Young and Contemplative, many people continue to discover the transformative power of being silent before God.
Author : Sarah Bachelard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317064596
Moral life gathers its shape, force and meaning in relation to an underlying sense of reality, imaginatively conceived. Significant contemporary writing in philosophy appeals to the concept of ’transcendence’ to explore what is deepest in our moral experience, but leaves this notion theologically unspecified. This book reflects on the appeal to transcendence in ethics with reference to the Resurrection of Jesus. Bachelard argues that the Resurrection reveals that the ultimate reality in which human life is held is gracious, forgiving and reconciling, a Goodness that is ’for us’. Faith in this testimony transforms the possibilities of moral life, both conceptually and in practice. It invites our participation in a goodness experienced non-dualistically as grace, and so profoundly affects the formation of the moral self, the practice of moral judgement and the shape of moral concepts. From this perspective, contemporary philosophical discussion about 'transcendence' in moral thought is cast in a new light, and debates about the continuity between theological and secular ethics gain a thoroughly new dimension. Bachelard demonstrates that placing the Resurrection at the heart of our ethical reflection resonates with the deepest currents of our lived moral experience and transfigures our approach to moral life and thought.
Author : Glen Lehman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000294095
Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems. When a social system has external elements imposed upon it, or presented to it, political problems are likely to emerge. This book demonstrates that what is needed are connecting social elements with a natural affinity to bring people together despite their differences. This book is different from others in the field. It provides new insights by critiquing the extant understandings of accountability and expands the possibilities by building on Charles Taylor’s philosophies. Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on authenticity and expressivism which are found to provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the world, and a starting point for rethinking the way individuals and communities ought to be dealing politically with accountability and ecological crises. The argument builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from interpretivism, liberalism, and postmodern theory. The book will be of interest to researchers in environmental philosophy, critical perspectives on accounting, corporate governance, corporate social reporting, and environmental accounting.
Author : Ferran Requejo,Camil Ungureanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317637271
In contrast with the progressive dilution of religions predicted by traditional liberal and Marxist approaches, religions remain important for many people, even in Europe, the most secularised continent. In the context of increasingly culturally diverse societies, this calls for a reinterpretation of the secular legacy of the Enlightenment and also for an updating of democratic institutions. This book focuses on a central question: are the classical secularist arrangements well equipped to tackle the challenge of fast-growing religious pluralism? Or should we move to new post-secular arrangements when dealing with pluralism in Europe? Offering an interdisciplinary approach that combines political theory and legal analysis, the authors tackle two interrelated facets of this controversial question. They begin by exploring the theoretical perspective, asking what post-secularism is and looking at its relation to secularism. The practical consequences of this debate are then examined, focusing on case-law through four empirical case studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, philosophy, religion and politics, European law, human rights, legal theory and socio-legal studies.
Author : Kevin Maddy
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643965035
Approaches to Monasticism in the Context of Christian Responses to Modern Culture is a study of how the values and practices of monasticism are being shaped by the shift to a cultural understanding of Christianity in modern times. The values and practices of traditional monasticism are contrasted with those of various expressions of new monasticism against the background of a multicultural and fluid social environment in an effort to find some reciprocal illumination. The study aims to describe monasticism in terms of authenticity and lived religion. Kevin Maddy was educated at Cambridge University and has recently completed a PhD at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He currently works in Canterbury as an Anglican parish priest, and is a probationary member of the Society of the Resurrection.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254152
Turns to the source and focus of all the author's inspirational teaching about prayer - the presence of Christ. He describes this prayer as the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus and his Father.
Author : John Main (O.S.B.)
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781853117374
The Benedictine monk John Main was one of the most profoundly influential spiritual teachers of recent times. His belief that the desert tradition of meditative prayer practised by the earliest monastic communities had an immediate and contemporary relevance gave rise to the vision of a totally new kind of community, one made up of men and women scattered throughout the world yet united in their daily practice of Christian meditation. It was to be, literally, a monastery without walls.
Author : Camil Ungureanu,Paolo Monti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351391740
What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of, the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion. Key features of this book include: Analyses of different political traditions: liberalism, republicanism, deliberative democracy, feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and interculturalism; Critical discussions of key contemporary philosophers, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Susan Moller Okin, Martha Nussbaum, Will Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas, and Bhiku Parekh; A pluralist approach that questions the strict divide between analytical and continental political philosophy; Discussion on the place of religion in politics from multiple perspectives by drawing on a plurality of political contexts, both Western and non-Western; Analyses of legal and political cases related to different religious traditions, for example, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. This comprehensive text will be of great use to students of religion and politics in the fields of political and legal theory, and religious and theological studies, while also offering critical insights and arguments that will be of interest to the experts in the field.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Modern Spiritual Masters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570754152
John Main (1926-1982) was an English Benedictine monk who pioneered the practice of Christian meditation. His work inspired the foundation of the World Community for Christian Meditation and a network of hundreds of meditation groups around the world. Contents include: - Holy Mystery - Being with God - Letting go - Embracing the world - One hundred sayings on prayer, God, and love.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848253698
An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.
Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848254053
A collection of short quotes, which are intended as springboards for contemplation, are drawn from his talks, letters, journals and other unpublished sources. They are gathered around a number of themes relating to the practice of Christian meditation including: Peace, Purity of heart, Contacting the centre, Truth, Expectations, Distractions, Union with God, and Hope. As well as being a rich spiritual treasury for meditation, this is a resource for anyone looking for profound and beautiful spiritual quotations.