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Title: Intimacy With God by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0-8245-1588-9 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As Close As Your Own Heart
Comment: I've just finished Intimacy With God, in which Father Keating quotes (very briefly) Carlos Castaneda.
I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined a Roman Catholic priest finding worthy anything Castaneda said. I'm impressed.
The book is an excellent introduction to the concept of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, and its emergence to meet the needs of disaffected Catholics (and later, Protestants) seeking a more meaningful, deeper connection with the divine. Keating explains the practice in clear terms and in the context of Christian doctrine. For someone like myself, it has introduced a way of praying that combines my core beliefs and spiritual roots in Christianity with the meditative aspects that the Eastern religions foster (and to which I am drawn).
I also find appealing his use of Centering Prayer as a relationship with God, the "Divine Therapist," which implies the friendship, trust, and intimacy inherent in psychotherapy. The process of contemplative prayer is to consent to God healing us, by resting in Its presence while the Holy Spirit manifests Herself in us. In the state of deep rest, undigested emotional material arises (due to relaxed defenses) from the unconscious and is evacuated, bringing one a step closer to intimacy -- union in love -- with God. Keating remarks that this is a lifelong process and practice. He clarifies the distinction between clinical depression and the periods of "dark nights of the soul" which imply that the transformation is occurring. He also recognizes that while psychology and spirituality overlap, each "has a distinct emphasis and integrity that needs to be respected."
Many of Keating's words enlightened me, but this statement is one I want to note, because it presents a simple truth: "All spiritual exercises are designed to reduce the monumental illusion that God is absent. Not so. We just think so. Since the way we think is the way we usually act, we live as if God were absent. Whatever we can do to contribute to the dissolution of that confusion furthers our spiritual journey."
For those curious to learn more about Christian prayer, for their own journey or simply to learn more about what Christians believe and live, I highly recommend this book
Rating: 5
Summary: INTIMACY WITH GOD AN INTRODUCTION TO CENTERING PRAYER
Comment: INTIMACY WITH GOD by Father Thomas Keating is one of the best books I have ever read about prayer. First and foremost Father Keatings book provided me with a safe haven to feel issues that I have felt since I was an orphan as a young boy. This book gave me affirmation and insight to my feelings about not only who God is but what it means to have a personal relationship with God in a hectic world. As I read this book the little boy in me felt God's loving arms and presence surround me and I felt an inner peace and excitement in what I was reading. As a Protestant Pastor I would strongly recommend this book by Father Keating to anyone who I may meet for a brother in Christ has written a very sensitive, loving book. If one desires to have a more intimate realtionship with God and not the world then read this book. The worse thing that may happen is you may stop and think about your priorities. By the end of the book you may also be thinking about what has been missing in my life that I need? The best thing is you may feel God's loving arms and presence in your life as you read and reflect. Reflect on where is God in my life? Maybe its time to take the step and find out! God be with you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Falling in Love
Comment: Keating talks about a love relationship with God. What is important is your INTENTION. As one who has desired union with God more than anything else all my life, this is a welcome book. For those of you who have plunged into divers religions searching for God this is the direction to go. Keating though fails to mention the preamble to union with God, namely justification with God through Faith in Christ. It is assumed you have found an initial peace with God, and this is the GROWTH of that peace to envelope your whole being and merge you in God. For those in christainity who have had a lot of high experiences but no steady relationship this book is for you. DO it!!! as keating says, and it will do you!! Enough cannot be said about the book, an excellent combination of psychology, philosophy, christainity, and sociology. An introduction to the practice of forsaking all to be with your sweetheart, living in you.....God
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Title: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0826406963 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation (Wit Lectures.) by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0809138824 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation by Thomas Keating ISBN: 082640698X Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Keating ISBN: 0826410618 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Centering Prayer in Daily Life and Ministry by Thomas Keating, Gustave Reininger ISBN: 0826410413 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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