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Title: Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom ISBN: 0-8091-1509-3 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful and Moving Book
Comment: For anyone who is seeking a deeper prayer life, whether as one who is beginning a journey or someone who is well along the path of faith, this work is an undescribably rich gift from Metropolitan Anthony to the reader. As I read each chapter, I found myself challenged and encouraged to take my prayer life more deeply inward.
Metropolitan Anthony does not just introduce techniques or give situational advice to finding a fuller prayer life, He challenges the reader to examine an entirely different way of looking at the source of deep and effective prayer. Unlike many evangelical books on the topic, Metropolitan Anthony seeks to teach us how to fish (to use the well worn cliche) so that we may be fed for a lifetime.
I encourage anyone who reads this review to buy this book, read it slowly, over time and allow it to enrich your relationship with God.
Rating: 5
Summary: So Much Wisdom In So Few Pages
Comment: Though hailed as a primer for "people who have never prayed before", this book, written by Archbishop Anthony Bloom, is nothing short of spectacular. The book's orinigal title, "School of Prayer" is more appropiate because this book should be utilized by all Christians.
In the last few years, a resurgence of prayer books liek the "Prayer of Jabex" by Wilkinson and "Prayer of Jesus" and "The Covering" by Hannagraff are selling of the charts, this book by Bloom is far more superior than their text. Though only about 144 pages, there is much wisdom and the book should be read slowly after much spiritual contemplation.
It is easy to read, yet it contains so much theological depth that it is truly amazing. The first 20 pages are average as it has an interview with Bloom. The real meat begins in chapter one title "The Absence of God" where Bloom writes, "If you look at the relationship (us and God) in terms of mutual relationship, you would see that God could complain about us a great deal more thann we about Him. We complain that He does make Himself present to us for a few minutes we reserve for Him, but what about the twenty-three and half hours during which God may be knocking at our door and we answer 'I am busy..."
This is just a taste - buy the book for a deep look at prayer. You will forever be thankful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beginning and Ending
Comment: This book is a very short and easy 114 pages.
In it, Metropolitan Anthony manages to produce not only an amazingly clear exposition of Orthodox prayer life, a semi-autobiographical memoir, the beginnings of a modern Christian existential philosophy, and an excellent response to some of the more childish criticisms of religious belief - but, on the whole he produces an excellent piece of literature; full of charming motifs, impassioned narratives, icy-cold journalism, etymologies in partial jest, and mythologies in half seriousness -- All of this emeshed in tentacles of surrealist imagery.
Whether you are an open-minded atheist, a growing Christian looking for practical advice from an elder at prayer, or a thoughtful and critical reader, dissatisfied with two-dimensional dogmatic answers and impatient with ethereal theological theories and jargon, here is an introduction to real Christianity from someone who is not full of it. Rather, he is quite full of humility. (You'll have to read the book to get the joke).
peace, Didymous
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Title: Living Prayer by Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom ISBN: 0872430545 Publisher: Templegate Pub Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Courage to Pray by Anthony, Bloom ISBN: 0809101904 Publisher: Newman Pr Pub. Date: January, 1974 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Word Is Very Near You: A Guide to Praying With Scripture by Martin L. Smith ISBN: 0936384816 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware ISBN: 0913836583 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina by Thelma Hall ISBN: 0809129590 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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