Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers
10 best books like Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers (Rowan Williams): The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation, Christianity Rediscovered, A Jonathan Edwards Reader, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
| Author | Bernard McGinn |
| ISBN | 0812974212 |
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Nancy Klein Maguire |
| ISBN | 1586483277 |
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation...
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For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of...
| Author | Christine Valters Paintner |
| ISBN | 1933495294 |
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in lifepoets...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0060613998 |
I need this type of books so badly. I am reading it slowly taking it all in. Today I am up to page 20 since English is my second language. I kept saying, yes, yes, to almost everything she said. Here are some things I liked in her book:
-The spirituality we develop affects the way we image God.
-The...
| Author | Martin Laird |
| ISBN | 0195307607 |
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with...
| Author | Vincent J. Donovan |
| ISBN | 1570754624 |
Donovan’s book gives readers much to ponder regarding how the message of Jesus is presented. From his work with the Masai in Tanzania, he came to realize that often the gospel message carries much cultural accretion that is not present in the New Testament, such as Western hierarchical authority...
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 0300098383 |
Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America’s greatest theologian and philosopher.
"Jonathan Edwards remains unequaled among...
| Author | Belden C. Lane |
| ISBN | 0195315855 |
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.
Interweaving...
For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0819221333 |
"We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don't. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn't one of them. It's time to think and speak...
| Author | Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| ISBN | 1557252866 |
This book took more time to read than its thickness would suggest because it is the type of material one needs to marinade in. I am already applying some if the principles, though not as holistically as the book suggests.
There are two things that rub me a little bit the wrong way about this book,...
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0804206120 |
This is a quick read, and certainly a much more accessible introduction to Barth's thought that the infamous and multi-volumed Church Dogmatics. Very early in the three essays we see Barth's confusion in the midst of theological history: he claims that Kierkegaard had "no influence" on 19th century...
Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation
In the course of numerous workshops and retreats Father Keating is asked many questions regarding contemplative practice. How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually? What obstacles will I encounter along the way? How does it work? As Keating answers, this book is "an attempt to provide...
Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0867166592 |
Only when the two come together, inner and outer authority, do we have true spiritual wisdom. We have for too long insisted on outer authority alone, without any teaching of prayer, inner journey and maturing consciousness. The results for the world and for religion have been disastrous….I offer...
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
| Author | Christopher Jamison |
| ISBN | 0814631681 |
In Finding Sanctuary Abbot Christopher Jamison, host of the BBC television series The Monastery, suggests the teachings of St. Benedict are a tool for everyday life 'for those who are religious and for those simply searching for spiritual guidance.
The Monastery involved five non-monks...
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
| Author | Kyriacos C. Markides |
| ISBN | 0385500920 |
An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda.
In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections,...
The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
| Author | Jamie Arpin-Ricci |
| ISBN | 0830836357 |
Blessed are the poor in spirit . . .So begins the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' great message to everyone with ears to hear. St. Francis of Assisi heard its message and challenged the church and empire of his day by ordering his life around it--giving up his power, wealth and privileges; claiming the poor...
Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from Patristic Era with Commentary
| Author | Olivier Clément |
| ISBN | 1565480295 |
I first read this book for a graduate class in Early Christianity at SLU in fall 2008. If I had to "blame" a single work for making me fall hopelessly in love with theology in general and patristics in particular, I would choose The Roots of Christian Mysticism.
Why? Clément not only demonstrates...
Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 1587431319 |
This was my first introduction to both Hauerwas and "the seven words last words" as a unique study, and, while in the intro he says it's much different than his other work, I didn't find it as moving or insightful as I'd hoped. A few times I wondered at his interpretation of some of the sayings (e.g. Jesus...
We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People
| Author | Gustavo Gutiérrez |
| ISBN | 1570754969 |
After twenty years, We Drink from Our Own Wells remains a classic expression of Latin American spirituality by a pioneer of liberation theology. Starting from St. Bernard of Clairvaux's counsel to root spirituality in one's own experience, Gustavo Gutierrez outlines the contours of a spirituality...
Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve
| Author | Lewis B. Smedes |
| ISBN | 0060675225 |
A Proven Path to Move from Shame to Healing
If you persistently feel you don't measure up, you are feeling shame—that vague, undefined heaviness that presses on our spirit, dampens our gratitude for the goodness of life, and diminishes our joy. The good news is that shame can be healed. With...
