Christian Insight Meditation

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“This book lucidly shows us how much Christian insight meditation supports the purifying path to God and self-knowledge. I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking a serious, contemplatively oriented meditation practice aimed at a truer, freer life available to God’s grace moment by moment.”—Tilden Edwards, Founder and Senior Fellow, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation

CHRISTIAN INSIGHT MEDITATION

Following in the Footsteps of John of the Cross

Mary Jo Meadow Kevin Culligan Daniel Chowning

The practice of Christian insight meditation can enliven one’s entire prayer life. It can prepare our hearts to hear God’s word in new ways, set the stage for new insight into the deeper meaning of the words and symbols we celebrate in Christian worship and practice, and help us to grow in the purity of heart, poverty of spirit, and emptiness of self that dispose us for God’s work in our lives. The practice is particularly valuable for taking prayer beyond discursiveness, petition, and thinking. Christian insight meditation is nothing short of a powerful way to “pray always” and practice loving presence to God.

Drawing heavily on the teachings of St. John of the Cross, and also drawing from the illuminating writings of Teresa of Avila, the authors here offer a masterful explication of a practice and path firmly grounded in the meditative technology of Eastern wisdom, yet wholly and vividly Christian in spirit.

book information
  • Paperback
  • 288 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 inches
  • $16.95
  • ISBN 9780861715268
about the author
Christian Insight Meditation

A Sister for Christian Community, Meadow is also vowed to the Theravadan Buddhist nun’s precepts. Mary Jo has studied with Joseph Goldstein and Sayadaw U Pandita. She is a retired university professor in psychology of religion, and has been teaching vipassana since 1987. In addition to simple vipassana instruction, Mary Jo offers vipassana as a method for Christian meditators and those working 12-step recovery programs. She teaches through Resources for Ecumenical Spirituality.

Christian Insight Meditation

Kevin G. Culligan is a leading scholar of spirituality and a founding member of the Institute of Carmelite Studies.

Christian Insight Meditation

Fr Daniel Chowning is a Carmelite friar and priest who studied theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and at the International Centre for Teresian / Sanjuanist Studies in Avila, Spain. He has led Silence and Awareness retreats since 1989. He is an authority on the teachings of John of the Cross as well as other Christian mystics such as Teresa of Avila.

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