To Dare the Our Father

A Transformative Spiritual Practice

John Shea (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2018
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-4560-4 (ISBN)

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The Lord’s Prayer accompanies the lives of Christians. When we are happy or sad, when we eagerly wait for a child to be born or silently keep watch as an elder dies, alone in the woods or together in liturgy, filled with gratitude or emptied by grief, driven to praise or dragged to repent, the Our Father finds its way to our lips.

To Dare the Our Father recognizes and respects these experiences but it envisions praying the prayer as a more sustained and challenging undertaking. How does praying the Our Father inform our thinking, feeling, willing, and acting? How does it become for us a transformative spiritual practice? John Shea explores these questions and more to discover what it looks like to become people of prayer.

John (Jack) Shea is a consultant with decades of experience in providing theological and formation services to parishes and faith-based organizations. He has published over twenty books of theology and spirituality (including Liturgical Press’s popular Spiritual Wisdom of the Gospels series), three novels, and three books of poetry. He lectures nationally and internationally on storytelling in world religions, faith-based health care, contemporary spirituality, and the spirit work movement. Visit jackshea.org to learn more.

Contents

Preface
A Personal Preface
Chapter One
Praying Someone Else’s Prayer: A Meditation Text
Chapter Two
Seven Challenges of Transformative Spiritual Practices
Chapter Three
Seven Challenges of Praying the Our Father
Chapter Four
The Identity of the Ones Praying
Chapter Five
The Mission of the Ones Praying
Chapter Six
The Strategies of the Ones Praying
Chapter Seven
Transformations and the Emergence of Spirit
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2018
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 210 mm
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8146-4560-7 / 0814645607
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-4560-4 / 9780814645604
Zustand	Neuware