Ordinary Graces: Christian Teachings on the Interior Life

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  • Author : Lorraine Kisly
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780609806180
  • ISBN : 0609806181
  • Label : Crown Publications
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Crown Publications
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 270
  • Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 7.90 inches (Length) x 0.50 pounds (Weight) x 5.10 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2002-04-04
  • Publisher : Crown Publications
  • SKU : G0609806181I2N00
  • Studio : Crown Publications

"I wanted to find the living core of [the Christian] tradition", the editor of this collection has said. As publisher of the excellent Buddhist periodical Tricycle, and as editor and publisher of Parabola magazine, Kisly has had her hand in shaping two of the most informative (and formative) spiritual journals of recent times, which should make her well qualified for the journey. And here she has indeed assembled a rich and challenging collection of Christian texts, with a particularly strong representation from Eastern Orthodoxy. We get not only the usual suspects (Merton, Augustine, Wesley, Newman, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Julian of Norwich) but also Paul Evdokimov, Anthony Bloom, Nicholas Berdyaev and Theophan the Recluse, along with passages from the great Medieval mystics of the Western church: Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Jan Van Ruusbroec and Catherine of Sienna, among many others.Arranged in 10 "cycles", the brief selections (ranging from a paragraph to a few pages) move from an emphasis on the natural world through discussions of loving one's neighbour and the nature of sin to concluding cycles on "Holy Fire"--the dwelling of the divine in us--and the paradox of "Having Nothing, Possessing All Things". What we discover throughout is that the "ordinary graces" of the title are in fact available to all, and are indeed ordinary, even though they demand everything from us. Surrender is the book's underlying message: not a new one for a Christian audience, but one rarely expressed with such passion and depth as in the writings represented here. Readers already familiar with Kathleen Norris' The Cloister Walk and the anthologies of Stephen Mitchell, such as The Enlightened Heart, will find rich--if challenging--rewards here as well. --Doug Thorpe

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