Contemplative Prayer
A New Framework
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2015
224 pages
978-1-4081-8712-8 (ISBN)
Description
A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.
David Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep (Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language.
He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God's absence can be a threshold of prayer.
David Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep (Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language.
He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God's absence can be a threshold of prayer.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-8712-8 (9781408187128)
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Book
05/2015
Bloomsbury Continuum
€36.08
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Person
Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the Benedictine College of Sant' Anselmo in Rome.
Content
Introduction
1 Religious Experience
2 A Traditional Framework
3 New Starting Points
4 Contemplative Experience
5 Knowing and Unknowing
6 Being and Beyond
7 Prayer of Love and Silence
Conclusion
References
Index
1 Religious Experience
2 A Traditional Framework
3 New Starting Points
4 Contemplative Experience
5 Knowing and Unknowing
6 Being and Beyond
7 Prayer of Love and Silence
Conclusion
References
Index
