Silence: A User's Guide, Volume Two

Author: Maggie Ross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625647972
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
To learn to read a text for the portals of silence that are implicit in it is to gain a powerful tool for supporting and expanding one’s silence, and to open the reader to the insight that ensues. The sort of reading proposed in this volume is both costly and rewarding. These pages invite readers once again to look at their own minds, to reflect on what is happening there, and to understand the essential role of silence for being human, and for living our own truth with one another.

Silence: A User's Guide, Volume One

Author: Maggie Ross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725249499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Silence is essential for the health and well-being of humans and the environment in which they live. Yet silence has almost vanished from our lives and our world. Of all the books that claim to be about silence, this is the only one that addresses silence directly. Silence: A User's Guide is just what the title says: it is a guide to silence, which is both a vast interior spaciousness, and the condition of our being in the natural world. This book exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives--what Maggie Ross calls "the work of silence"; it describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares. It shows how the work of silence was once understood to be the foundation of the teaching of Jesus, and how this teaching was once an intrinsic part of Western Christianity; it describes some of the methods by which the institution suppressed the work of silence, and why religious institutions are afraid of silence. Above all, this book shows that the work of silence gives us a way of being in the world that is more than we can ask for or imagine.

Silence: A User's Guide

Author: Maggie Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780232533484
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
To learn to read a text for the portals of silence that are implicit in it is to gain a powerful tool for supporting and expanding one's silence, and to open the reader to the insight that ensues. The sort of reading proposed in this volume is both costly and rewarding. These pages invite readers once again to look at their own minds, to reflect on what is happening there, and to understand the essential role of silence for being human, and for living our own truth with one another.This second volume of Maggie Ross's Silence: A User's Guide offers application to support the process set out in volume one.

Silence: A User's Guide, Volume One

Author: Maggie Ross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625647964
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Writing the Icon of the Heart

Author: Maggie Ross
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620326930
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
The subtitle of Maggie Ross's new book captures its essence, for it is about silence and our need to behold God. Beholding is a notion that we are in danger of losing. It is often lost in translation, even by the NRSV and the Jerusalem Bible. Beholding needs to be recovered both in theology and practice. Ross is very aware of "poor talkative Christianity." There is a twofold plea to enter into silence--for lack of silence erodes our humanity--and to behold the radiance of God. This is a book full of deep questioning and the testing of our assumptions. Throughout there is a great love for the world and for our humanity, accompanied by sadness that we are so easily distracted . . . . We are invited into a silence that is not necessarily an absence of noise, but is a limitless interior space. Ancient texts are used in new and exciting ways, and many of our worship practices are challenged. She is in no doubt that "the glory of the human being is the beholding of God." --adapted from a review in The Church Times (London) by Canon David Adam.

Silent Rosary

Author: Addison Hodges Hart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725272326
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
The twenty mysteries of the rosary are a circular “gallery,” a matrix of theology and spirituality. They can inspire us profoundly. For those seeking a deeper encounter in faith, these mysteries have the power to move us toward contemplation. A lengthy Introduction explains in detail the meaning of the term “mystery” in Christian thought, provides a brief history of the rosary, explains the significance of Mary in the mysteries, explores the importance of “beholding” in the Scriptures and in our spirituality, and explores Christian iconography. The centerpiece of the book is the “gallery” of the mysteries as illuminated by the iconography of Solrunn Nes, each image supplemented with explanatory commentaries by Addison Hodges Hart. The latter incorporate biblical exegesis, pertinent historical details, and insights from classical spiritual writers. The aim is to provide insight into the symbolism and typology of each mystery and to lead the reader into contemplative prayer and action. Throughout, the book unites an outward “beholding” of the mysteries of the rosary with the inner practice of the work of silence.

Word To Silence

Author: Matthew K. H. Leong
Publisher: 马来西亚浸信会神学院
ISBN: 9675073179
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
目錄 Preface by Gary W. Moon Introduction：Word to Silence PART ONE：WHY SILENCE 1. Biblical Foundations2. Theological Basis PART TWO：VOICES ON SILENCE 3. Early Christians4. Contemporary Practitioners PART THREE：ENTERING SILENCE 5. Spiritual Practices6. Facilitating Contemplative Silence Appendices Bibliography

Truth and the Church in a Secular Age

Author: David Jasper
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 033405818X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Exploring the place of Christianity, the Church and their claims to uphold the truth in an age of `post-truth’, Truth and the Church in a Secular Age takes an approach both historical in its depth and contemporary in its concerns.

Be Still and Know

Author: Jenni Ho-Huan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532697589
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
City living is busy, stressful, and noisy. It generates a lifestyle of haste with an addiction to quick fixes. It feels impossible to find quiet, to rest, and to think deeply. Our longing is to experience enduring peace, stronger relationships, and a better sense of our unique place in the world. To do so, we must hunger for life as it is meant to be—connected to its Source and maturing into fullness and fruitfulness. This requires that we become familiar with silence as a place to visit and feel at home in. For it is in silence that we encounter ourselves, others, and God in radical ways. Let this volume, movingly told through personal narrative, help you make your way to the land of silence and be amazed at how it impacts your life as you grow in peace, patience, and passion.

Apocalyptic Patience

Author: Andrew Shanks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350410616
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress. Shanks engages with the philosophy of Jan Patocka; specifically, his Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, which culminate in the concept of the 'solidarity of the shaken'. Such solidarity is quite simply that which empowers the most radically thoughtful openness to others, embattled against even the most repressive closure; a solidarity without any other essential qualification. Split into three distinct parts, Shanks begins by discussing Patocka's philosophico-centric grand narrative, and drawing wider reference to the pre-philosophic origins of Abrahamic religious tradition. This is followed by an exploration of mystical theology, Christian and Islamic; of its decay into 'mysticism', and its influence on Christian and Jewish gnostic traditions. The final third presents a discussion on ethical phenomenology. Analysing the proponents of a 'pathos of shakenness' such as Kierkegaard, Levinas, Løgstrup, he juxtaposes 19th-century thinkers such as Arendt and Hegel with Heidegger and Strauss as he moves through the century, and eventually to the rise of secular public conscience movement.