Lectio Matters
Before the Burning Bush
Published on 1. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8146-3505-6 (ISBN)
Description
Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature.
InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.
InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Collegeville, MN
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8146-3505-6 (9780814635056)
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Persons
Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. From 1994 through 2004, she served as executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which fosters dialogue among monastics of the world's religions. In addition to the volumes of the Matters Series, she is the author of Islam Is . . . : An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion and Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation.
Content
Contents
Iconographer's Preface xi
Rebecca Cown
Foreword xix
Laurence O'Keefe, OSB
Introduction: Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush xxiii
Chapter 1: The Text of the Book of Jonah: The Actual Reading of the Tex t 1
Chapter 2: The Literal Voice Studied by the Logical Senses of the Mind 7
Chapter 3: The Meaning of the Text: The Symbolic Voice Is Grasped by the Intuitive Senses 25
Chapter 4: The Moral Voice: Heard and Heeded by the Personal Senses 51
Chapter 5: More on How We Get There from Here: Further Teaching on the Moral Dimension 91
Chapter 6: Encountering God: The Mystical Voice Is Received by the Spiritual Senses 172
Appendix: Catechesis on Confession 201
Afterword 208
Michael Casagram, OCSO
Notes 211
Select Bibliography 232
Iconographer's Preface xi
Rebecca Cown
Foreword xix
Laurence O'Keefe, OSB
Introduction: Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush xxiii
Chapter 1: The Text of the Book of Jonah: The Actual Reading of the Tex t 1
Chapter 2: The Literal Voice Studied by the Logical Senses of the Mind 7
Chapter 3: The Meaning of the Text: The Symbolic Voice Is Grasped by the Intuitive Senses 25
Chapter 4: The Moral Voice: Heard and Heeded by the Personal Senses 51
Chapter 5: More on How We Get There from Here: Further Teaching on the Moral Dimension 91
Chapter 6: Encountering God: The Mystical Voice Is Received by the Spiritual Senses 172
Appendix: Catechesis on Confession 201
Afterword 208
Michael Casagram, OCSO
Notes 211
Select Bibliography 232