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Reading To Live : The Evolving Practice of Lectio Divina /
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of prayerful reading, is a font whose waters are waiting to quench the thirst of spiritual seekers, both beginners on the spiritual journey and experienced travelers. The art of holy reading transforms lives. Through the practice of lectio individuals and communit...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Trappist, Ky. :
Liturgical Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The problem of spiritual illiteracy. Various approaches to reading
- Digital text
- The printed book
- Scholastic text
- The monastic book
- A method of retrieval
- The art of Lectio divina : beginning of a Christian spiritual practice. Judaism and religious reading
- Beginning of a Christian approach to reading
- Origen, the master reader
- The spread of a Christian practice. Women scholar-readers
- Augustine, reading, and the self
- The evolution and regularization of a practice. The desert tradition
- Early eastern cenobitic forms of monasticism
- Cassian and western monasticism
- Rule of Benedict, rule of the master, and reading
- The ups and downs of a practice. Eleventh- and twelfth-century reform
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Hugh of St. Victor and the Didascalicon
- Guigo II and The ladder of monks
- The eclipse of Lectio
- The revival of a practice. Toward a revival of Bible reading
- The revival of Lectio divina
- The phenomenology of reading and Lectio divina
- Social science, psychology, and Lectio divina
- Theological perspectives, narrative, and Lectio divina
- Learning Lectio divina today
- Lectio as actualizing the Word
- Lectio as group activity
- Conclusion: Lectio : the once and future practice.