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Your friends at The Crossroad Publishing Company n Recent and Noteworthy . 22 n Lives . 25 n Classics . .. 27 n Mysticism . 28 n Offerings . 31 2 WWW .CONTEMPLATION-aNd-commUNITY .NET WWW .CROSSroADPUBLISHING .COM 3 A Gathering of Fresh Voices Just Published “This vital and essential volume is for readers who sense that the evolution of individuals, Jessica M . Smith and Stuart Higinbotham, organizations, communities, religions, and creation is rooted in contemplative living. The Editors authors provide definitions, instructions, and tools as well as highlight the transformative Contemplation and gifts of a regular contemplative practice that emerge from and move beyond silence, Community stillness, solitude, and body prayer. Christian and other forms of meditation, existent before A Gathering of Fresh Voices for a Living Tradition and during Biblical times, nurtures a listening to Spirit rather than egoistic voices thereby igniting an awakening of oneness and wholeness. The beautiful stories, scholarly discourse, Upon their gathering at St . Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, in and research evidence illuminate repeatedly how contemplation reconnects us to each other August 2017, the contributors of this and the Source of all thereby empowering healing, resilience, dignity, and strength.” volume, along with colleagues around the NEW — Lerita Coleman-Brown, Ph.D., author of When the Heart Speaks, Listen world, gathered from four contemplative centers - The Center for Action and NEW Contemplation, Contemplative Outreach, Editors: Jessica M. Smith and Stuart Higginbotham The World Community for Christian Meditation, and the Shalem Institute for Foreword: Tilden Edwards Spiritual Formation . They came alongside Contributors: Sarah Bachelard, Thomas Bushlack, Sicco Claus, Leonardo Correa, their founders, Lawrence Freeman, Richard Phileena Heuertz, Bo Karen Lee, Kirsten Oates, Mark Kutolowski, Mark Langhurst, Rohr, Tilden Edwards, and Father Thomas Keating . This unprecedented gathering Matthew Wright, offered participants a chance to wonder Afterword: Margaret Benefiel and practice together, peering into what might be emerging for the future of Christian contemplative life . New Contemplative Exchange Founders and Facilitators 978-0-8245-5051-6 Crossroad “If you want to understand the history of Tilden Edwards $19 95. pb / 264 pages Christian spirituality, read the great mystics Laurence Freeman, OSB of the church. But to get a sense of the Thomas Keating, OCSO future of contemplative Christianity, read Richard Rohr, OFM this book...” Margaret Benefiel — Carl McColman “Death and resurrection is the core of Christian faith and even takes us into the heart of the Trinity. So, Christians today shouldn’t be frightened or angry about the passing away of so From the Table of Contents: much of formal Christianity. And yet, to live in hope we need to identify the signs of the new and fuller life that are already emerging. This book is such a sign of a new form of universal • GROUNDING in PRACTICE Contemplative Practices Christianity. The contributors express an exciting vision of a courageous, inclusive and prophetic The Value of Learning Contemplation in Community Contemplative Christianity witnessing to the ends of the earth the change of heart and mind Celebrating the Discipline of Prayer that humanity is called to embrace. Christianity is an ongoing revolution. Today we are seeing The Power of Conetmplative Symbols how contemplative consciousness is its power-source.” • TRANSFORMATION in COMMUNITY — Lawrence Freeman, OSB,The World Community for Christian Meditation A Primary Concern for Oneness: Contemplation and Leadership in Congregations Creating Strategy with a Conetmplative Ethos Imaginative Contemplation and the Gift of Compassion “This book fills an important gap in contemporary literature on contemplative practices. It provides • EMBODIMENT, COMPASSION and HEALING an irenic collection of diverse voices, practices, points of view about the methods and goals of Contemplation in the Bible: Where? When? How? contemplation. Allowing each voice its space, it enhances our sense of what contemplation can be Contemplation and Social Justice for individual seekers and as a force for good in society. I especially appreciate its willingness to Contemplation and the Connections of Life draw together contemplative practice and social good and to celebrate the beautiful diversity of Embodied Contemplation Beatrice Bruteau: prophet of a New Revelation approaches to communities and practices of transformation.” — Wendy Farley, Ph.D., San Francisco Theological Seminary 4 WWW .CONTEMPLATION-aNd-commUNITY .NET WWW .CROSSroADPUBLISHING .COM 5 Thomas Keating Thomas Keating ”This book is an attempt to outline the principles of that spirituality for “Father Keating and his those in the Christian fellow monks decided to community who are try to teach an ancient eager to incorporate a way of developing a loving contemplative dimension disposition of the heart. TEACHERS into their lives.” It was a practice that was deeply rooted in the history of Christianity and of many other religions, but to many believers it was new Thomas Keating ”This book is also for Thomas Keating Thomas Keating TEACHERS and original. They called Fr. THOMAS KEATING The Heart of the World Christians who have turned Meditations on the Parables Intimacy with God An Introduction to Contemplative it “centering prayer” and (1923-2018) East for spiritual experience of Jesus “This is perhaps Keating’s most readable and was a founder of the Christianity suggested that it was not and who now would like to Fr. Thomas Keating, the internationally- enlightening work. Filled with insight and Centering Prayer movement, The Christian heritage is rich in integrate that experience known Centering Prayer teacher, unlocks the just for monks; it was for practical advice, it offers sound wisdom on an author, a teacher, and contemplative wisdom literature and radical, transformative power of the parables, everyone.” the way that Centering Prayer can deepen our a monk who worked practices. This classic book is essential to into their Christian bringing the significance of Jesus’s message intimacy with God.” — Spiritual Book News for many years to foster a deeper understanding of the spiritual background. Finally, it is to our lives. Keating’s spiritual depth and —America Magazine center of Christianity. Thomas Keating 978-0-8245-2529-3 Crossroad understanding among the addressed to those of other cultural understanding inform the parables $16.95 pb / 232 pages world’s religions . 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Keating traveled the world to speak with laypeople a course that will take us and communities about Father Keating played a progressively closer to our contemplative Christian major role in popularizing divine goal as we learn to practices and the psychology what is now known as touch God, first with the of the spiritual journey . Since the reforms of Vatican centering prayer, a method of words of our lips, then with II, Fr . Keating was a core silent prayer that allows one reflections of the mind and participant in and supporter to rest in the presence of God. with the feelings of the of interreligious dialogue . He Over the years, his thoughts heart.” helped found the Snowmass Interreligious Conference, crystallized into what friends —Living Prayer which had its first meeting said became one of his Thomas Keating in the fall of 1983 and favorite sayings: “Silence Thomas Keating Thomas Keating continues to meet each