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In Uncommon Prayer: Prayer in Everyday Experience, Michael Plekon wants to change our minds on what constitutes prayer. In doing so, he makes a theological claim that to understand different aspects of the Christian life as prayer, one encourages everyday life to be understood as carrying religious...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plekon, Michael, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prayer > Christianity.
RELIGION > Prayer.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
Priere > Christianisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prayer in many places
  • The prayer of theologians and others: Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Heather Havrilesky, and Sara Miles
  • The prayer of a hermit: Thomas Merton
  • The prayer of poets: Mary Oliver, Christian Wiman, and Mary Karr
  • The prayer of forgetting and remembering: a list and a map
  • The prayer of darkness: Barbara Brown Taylor
  • The prayer of care for those in need: Maria Skobtsova and Dorothy Day
  • The prayer of pirogi making and other food adventures: the communion of community
  • The prayer of the classroom: encounter and listening
  • The prayer of one's life: Paul Evdokimov and Seraphim of Sarov
  • The prayer of contemplation and action: Richard Rohr
  • The prayer of incarnation.

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