Word into Silence
Title | Word into Silence PDF eBook |
Author | John Main |
Publisher | Canterbury Press |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2013-01-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1848253699 |
An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.
Words for Silence
Title | Words for Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Fruehwirth |
Publisher | Paraclete Press (MA) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Church year meditations |
ISBN | 9781557256010 |
Originating from weekly talks given to a contemplative community of monks and nuns, the meditations in this book aim to help people surrender their lives to God.
Silence and Stillness in Every Season
Title | Silence and Stillness in Every Season PDF eBook |
Author | John Main |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 1997-12-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0826410758 |
Many thousands of people across the world have found their spiritual lives enriches by the daily practice of Christian meditation, the method of silent prayer taught by Benedictine monk John Main. It is a tradition which draws on the ancient wisdom of the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the early Christian Desert Fathers.John Main wrote several books on contemplative prayer before he died in 1982, but this collection is the only one to draw the essence of all his teachings into one volume. Paul Harris has devotedly selected the essential extracts from each of John Main's works and arranged them here in an attractive and practical daily readings format.>
A Book of Silence
Title | A Book of Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Maitland |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1619021420 |
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
Silence
Title | Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-09-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1101638060 |
A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.
Door to Silence
Title | Door to Silence PDF eBook |
Author | John Main |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781853117497 |
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.
The Way of Unknowing
Title | The Way of Unknowing PDF eBook |
Author | John Main |
Publisher | Canterbury Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2013-01-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1848254164 |
A reissue of this classic collection of writings by John Main, exploring the benefits of silent prayer and Christian meditation