Bøger af Father Thomas Keating

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". This title includes spiritual readings that come from Father Keatings books and one audiotape, with a month's worth of readings derived from each work.

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 glossary, some changes in terminology, and a reordering of several chapters.

This work sets out the actual stages of Centering Prayer. In the course of numerous workshops and retreats, Keating is asked many questions regarding contemplative practice. How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually? And what obstacles will I encounter along the way?

Thomas Keating, author of Open Mind, Open Heart and father of the centering prayer movement, reflects on his life and Christian practiceIn these conversations with film maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Thomas Keating OCSO - bestselling author, Trappist monk and founder of the Centering Prayer movement - looks back on his long life and spiritual development. Following on from his previous books Invitation to Love, Open Mind, Open Heart and The Mystery of Christ, Father Keating now turns his attention to the themes of awakening, the nature of true happiness and the character and purpose of death. World Without End also contains an interview with Abbot Joseph Boyle OCSO, who presides over the monastery where Father Keating is resident, high in the Rocky Mountains in Snowmass, Colorado. Verboven's insightful questions probe into the depths of Father Keating's spirituality, discussing identity, transformation, silence, nature and the cosmos - themes universal and applicable to all those searching for a deeper and more meaningful life.

"Under the influence of Christian mystics such as St. John of the Cross, Keating weaves a narrative account of spiritual development that will be of...interest to spiritual directors and seekers." -Booklist

Based on the talks given at the John Main Seminar in 1998, the annual international event of the World Community for Christian Meditation, this book gives a commentary on the contemplative meaning of the gospel, particularly the story of the siblings from Bethany, Martha, Mary, and Lazarus which fits into the tradition of Christian teaching.

This book, with its ecumenical group of contributors, celebrates Centering Prayer as a common ground for Christian unity. It marks the first time that people other than William Meninger, Basil Pennington, and Thomas Keating (the three Trappist monks who distilled Centering Prayer from the Christian contmeplative heritage) have written in depth on Centering Prayer, its benefits and effects in daily life and ministry. There are pieces by Thomas R. Ward, Jr., Gustave Reininger, Thomas Neenan, David Walton Miller, Paul Lawson, Sarah Butler, David Forbes Morgan, Sandra Casey-Martus, and Jim Clark.

Twentieth anniversary edition of a best-selling spiritual classic, outlining the stages of the journey that begins when Centering Prayer is seriously undertaken.