Contemplative Prayer

A New Framework

Dom David Foster (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-4081-8710-4 (ISBN)

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A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

David Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep (Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language.

He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God’s absence can be a threshold of prayer.

Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.

Introduction

1 Religious Experience
2 A Traditional Framework
3 New Starting Points
4 Contemplative Experience
5 Knowing and Unknowing
6 Being and Beyond
7 Prayer of Love and Silence

Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2015
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	244 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-4081-8710-8 / 1408187108
ISBN-13	978-1-4081-8710-4 / 9781408187104
Zustand	Neuware