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Le Point Vierge

Philip Krill
Le Point Vierge Book PDF

Author : Philip Krill
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781665515306

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‘At the Center of our being is a point of pure truth, ‘ wrote Thomas Merton, ‘ a point or spark which belongs entirely to God...This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.’ Merton called this Center Point, Le Point Vierge the Virginal Point. Here, we and God are untied in a Mystery of inexpressible Presence. LE POINT VIERGE: Meditations on the Mystery of Presence is a year of daily meditations exploring the Mystery of Presence as we experience It in the Virginal Point in our hearts. Practicing Presence is a sure and certain way to make fresh contact with God. God is not an Object of our understanding but a Mystery of Presence encountered in the Virginal Point of our hearts. It is hoped that by reading LE POINT VIERGE, the reader will discover the truth of St. Augustine’s words: ‘You, O God, were more inward to me than my most inward parts and higher than my highest’ (Confessions 3.6.11).

Le Point Vierge

Philip Krill
Le Point Vierge Book PDF

Author : Philip Krill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1665515295

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LE POINT VIERGE: Meditations on the Mystery of Presence is a year of daily meditations exploring the Mystery of Presence as we experience It in the Virginal Point in our hearts. Practicing Presence is a sure and certain way to make fresh contact with God. God is not an Object of our understanding but a Mystery of Presence encountered in the Virginal Point of our hears. It is hoped that by reading LE POINT VIERGE, the reader will discover the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'You, O God, were more inward to me than my most inward part and higher than my highest' (Confessions 3.6.11).

Evelyn Underhill

Annice Callahan
Evelyn Underhill Book PDF

Author : Annice Callahan
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761808493

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Evelyn Underhill by Annice Callahan Pdf

This book explores Evelyn Underhill's spirituality for daily living by describing aspects of her life and writings that are relevant for contemporary Christians in their daily living. It combines scholarly research and pastoral applications. The first part focuses on three influences on her life: experiences and images, her study of the mystics, and her work with spiritual guides. The second part discusses Underhill's spirituality for daily living based on a study of her letters, retreats, and other spiritual writings. The third part presents her legacy for the third millennium: her study of mysticism, her spiritual guidance, and her spirituality for daily living. This work highlights aspects of her life with which readers may identify, for example: her own return to the Anglican communion after fourteen years; her ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox church and her lifelong attraction to the mystical and sacramental aspect of Roman Catholicism; her study of Sufi mystics bringing her into interfaith dialogue; her pacifist stance in World War II; and her prophetic contribution to the Anglican church as a woman spiritual director, retreat preacher, theologian, spiritual writer, and spiritual resource for today.

Purity of Heart and Contemplation

Bruno Barnhart,Yuese Huang
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Author : Bruno Barnhart,Yuese Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X004592803

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Purity of Heart and Contemplation by Bruno Barnhart,Yuese Huang Pdf

This is the fruit of a weeklong intermonastic dialogue held at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. Chinese traditions of Taoism, Confucianism, and Chan Buddhism are included, in addition to Zen Buddhism and Hinduism. Encounters between Christian and Hindu or Buddhist monastics have been occurring for several decades, most notably signalized in the 1998 book The Gethsemani Encounter. The themes purity of heart and contemplation are central to the monastic quest and they are also universal, offering a meeting point, an area of spirituality that is shared by all the traditions involved.

Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton Spiritual Master Book PDF

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809133148

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Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master by Thomas Merton Pdf

Includes excerpts from "Seven storey mountain", "Conjectures of a guilty bystander" and many other works including a chronology of Merton's life.

The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton

Monica Weis
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Author : Monica Weis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813140193

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“Delightful . . . a superb guide to the ecological themes of Merton’s life and writings.” ?The Christian Century Nature was always vital in Thomas Merton’s life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings. Throughout his life, Merton’s study of the natural world shaped his spirituality in profound ways, and he was one of the first writers to raise concern about ecological issues that have become critical in recent years. In The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton, Monica Weis suggests that Merton’s interest in nature, which developed significantly during his years at the Abbey of Gethsemani, laid the foundation for his growing environmental consciousness. Tracing Merton’s awareness of the natural world from his childhood to the final years of his life, Weis explores his deepening sense of place and desire for solitude, his love and responsibility for all living things, and his evolving ecological awareness. “Explains how Merton evolved from a nature enthusiast . . . to one of the world’s most respected ecological stewards.” ?Louisville Courier Journal

When God Comes Down

Rev. Dr. James A. Harnish
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Author : Rev. Dr. James A. Harnish
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426765155

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When God Comes Down is a five-week study, providing one lesson for each week of Advent and one for Christmas. Each lesson includes a key Scripture, a brief reflection, discussion/reflection questions, a brief prayer, and a focus for the coming week. In this study, Harnish explores the meaning of the incarnation...God with us in human flesh. Often our Advent/Christmas journey is focused on us – our memories, feelings, relationships and experiences. This study puts the focus on God’s action in Jesus Christ. It encourages participants to think more deeply in terms of the biblical, theological, and spiritual meaning of the Nativity and to apply it to their own life experiences. The study looks at the stories of the primary biblical characters in the birth stories through whose lives the miracle of incarnation happened: Zechariah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. Harnish also looks at a traditional character in nativity plays, one who is not mentioned in the Bible, the innkeeper. Through all these characters, he helps us claim for ourselves the reality of God's presence with us.

In Search of the Healing Spirit

Nass Cannon
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Author : Nass Cannon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666755534

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The late Dr. Nass Cannon Jr. (MD) was a physician for the indigent poor for over forty years and an internationally renowned scholar of the theologian and monk, Thomas Merton. In Search of the Healing Spirit follows a narrative arc across several essays of Dr. Cannon’s analysis and reflections on life and Thomas Merton’s theological contributions. First articulated by Dr. Cannon at the outset of his journey to serve the poor, the guiding principle of the book is an exploration of what it means to be broken and called to heal each other, ourselves, and the world. As Dr. Cannon writes, “I am a physician who views his root identity as one called to heal. Yet, I experience myself as broken, as one admonished by the phrase, ‘Physician, heal thyself.’ Perhaps you, too . . . experience yourself as a broken healer. Let us together explore some notions regarding the healer as broken, examine the nature of healing, and consider the relationship of the healer to one healed.” From this position as a broken healer, which implicitly embodies Merton’s contemplative spirituality, Dr. Cannon’s meditations over the course of his life of service increasingly weave in Merton’s contributions in search of the true self on such pressing—and universal—topics as grief and loss, the eternal nature and healing power of love, and to do what we can for each other with the time we are given. Dr. Cannon’s writings engage a twenty-first-century audience with insights—drawn from fifty years of study—that can aid lay persons, clergy, and academics to better understand what it means to be a broken person and through that brokenness to heal themselves and the world.

Catholics in Interreligious Dialogue

Anthony O'Mahony,Peter Bowe
Catholics in Interreligious Dialogue Book PDF

Author : Anthony O'Mahony,Peter Bowe
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852446403

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Catholics in Interreligious Dialogue by Anthony O'Mahony,Peter Bowe Pdf

This volume brings together a wide-ranging and engaging series of studies that witness to the depth of theological reflection that the contemporary Christian monastic and scholarly community are engaged in as the religious traditions seek to understand and relate to each other in a global context. (Catholic)

The Theology of Louis Massignon

Christian Krokus
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Author : Christian Krokus
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813229461

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The Theology of Louis Massignon by Christian Krokus Pdf

In The Theology of Louis Massignon, author Christian Krokus argues that Louis Massignon’s achievements in Christian-Muslim understanding, his activism on behalf of Muslim immigrants, refugees, and Middle Eastern Christians, as well as his developing understanding of Islam must be understood in the light of his Catholic convictions in relation to God, Christ, and the Church. With ample references to primary works, many translated into English for the first time, Krokus offers a comprehensive account of the main points of Massignon’s religious thought that will prove essential to theologians and historians working on questions of Christian-Muslim dialogue, comparative theology, and religious pluralism.

Thomas Merton and the Celts

Monica R. Weis
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Author : Monica R. Weis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781498278454

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Thomas Merton and the Celts by Monica R. Weis Pdf

Thomas Merton and the Celts offers a new lens through which to view Merton's life and spirituality. By examining unpublished letters, notebooks, and taped conferences for the Trappist novices--previously unavailable to the general reader--the author breaks new ground in Merton studies, revealing Merton's growing fascination with his Welsh ancestry, Celtic monasticism, and early Irish hermit poetry. Merton, having immersed himself in reading about Celtic Christianity--not just about liturgy, but about household rituals, illuminated manuscripts, high crosses, and hermit poetry as well--recognized in these ancient hermits who lived on "water and herbs," experienced kinship with creatures, and wrote poems about the birds a mirror of his own desires. Indeed, in a profound way and at a deep level, Merton discovered himself in Celtic Christianity.

The Only Mind Worth Having

Gardner Fiona
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Author : Gardner Fiona
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718844745

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In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is the only mind worth having and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. Shedemonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus' command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a sense of childhood spirituality is the path towards spiritual maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from innocence to experienceto organised innocence, or from dependence to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.

Mystics

William Harmless
Mystics Book PDF

Author : William Harmless
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195300383

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Mystics by William Harmless Pdf

In Mystics, William Harmless, S.J., introduces readers to the scholarly study of mysticism. He explores both mystics' extraordinary lives and their no-less-extraordinary writings using a unique case-study method centered on detailed examinations of six major Christian mystics: Thomas Merton, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, and Evagrius Ponticus. Rather than presenting mysticism as a subtle web of psychological or theological abstractions, Harless's case-study approach brings things down to earth, restoring mystics to their historical context.

Mystical Hope

Cynthia Bourgeault
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Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Hope
ISBN : 9781561011933

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In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal.

Answering the Contemplative Call

Carl McColman
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Author : Carl McColman
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506485805

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The mystical path is not some sort of static experience for the select few, says Carl McColman, rather, it is a living tradition, a rich and many-layered dimension of spirituality that is in large measure a quest to find the mysteries at the heart of the universe, paradoxically nestled within the heart of your own soul. McColman first introduced readers to Christianity's lost mystical roots in his popular book, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism. Now McColman is back with Answering the Contemplative Call, to show readers how to apply the riches of the mystical tradition to daily living. McColman quotes from the great mystics of the Christian tradition who have also traveled this path, including Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill and more. In Answering the Contemplative Call, McColman offers a practice that will help readers come to a place meaning and purpose in their lives.