Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality: Making Space for God - Couverture souple

Stead, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0281074860 ISBN 13 : 9780281074860

Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

A much needed book on the value of mindfulness for Christians with a foreword by Professor Mark Williams. May I be safe and protected. May I be at peace in mind and body. May I live with ease and kindness. (Kindness practice, p. 120) We can all engage with such longings - and wish these good things for the people we love. Mindfulness practice is hugely popular these days! But what, Tim Stead asks, does it have to offer Christianity? How might it help us to transform the way we manage stress and open up more completely to the promised 'life in all its fullness'? Key is the definition of mindfulness as being more fully aware of our own experience in the present moment in a non-judgemental way. The author finds that 'distractions', so often the bane of those trying to pray, can be taken note of without our being caught up in or taken over by them. A non-judgemental approach seems entirely consistent with talk of grace, and as Christians we know we can only ever experience God in the present moment. Tim reflects:'If I feel loved entirely without judgement, I will gradually dare to allow every aspect of myself to come into the light of God's gaze and so into relationship with the rest of myself - and this is how healing comes.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Stead has been an ordained Anglican priest for 20 years and is currently Vicar of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, Oxford. He is an accredited mindfulness teacher with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and teaches their eight-week MBCT course as well as running mindfulness courses and retreats in the parish and for clergy in the diocese.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SPCK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0281074860
• ISBN 13: 9780281074860
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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