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Lectio Divina - The Sacred Art: transforming words and images into heart-centered prayer by Christine Valters PaintnerBreak open this ancient contemplative practice of listening deeply for God's voice in sacred texts. Drawing on her own experience as a monk in the world, Christine Valters Paintner introduces the foundations for a practice of lectio divina. She closely examines each of the four movements of lectio divina as well as the rhythm they create when practiced as a process. She then invites you to expand your practice beyond traditional sacred texts to a sacred reading of the world through image, sound, nature and life experience.
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Eat This Book: a conversation in the art of spiritual reading by Eugene H. PetersonISBN: 9780802829481
Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations; included here is the inside story behind Peterson's own popular Bible translation, The Message."
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Scripture in tradition : the Bible and its interpretation in the Orthodox Church by John BreckISBN: 0881412260
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
This book offers a fresh look at the way Eastern patristic writers used Scripture in elaborating what would become the body of Orthodox doctrine. It begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of biblical interpretation as they were developed among the Greek Fathers. The second section introduces the reader to the ancient literary form known as chiasmus and shows how important a proper "chiastic" reading of the biblical text can be for revealing its "literal" meaning.
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Opening to God: lectio divina and life as prayer by David G. BennerPublication Date: 2010-09-03
Spiritual director David Benner invites us to discover openness to God as the essence of prayer, spirituality and the Christian life. Prayer is far more than saying words to God; all of life can be prayer when offered to God in faith and with openness. Using the four movements of lectio divina, Benner explores prayer as attending, pondering, responding and being. Along the way he opens us to a world of possibilities for communion with God: praying with our senses, with imagination, with music and creativity, in contemplation, in service and much more.Learn how prayer can be a way of living your life. Move beyond words to become not merely someone who prays, but someone whose entire life is prayer in union with God.
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Too deep for words : rediscovering Lectio Divina by Thelma HallISBN: 0809129590
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Retrieves from obscurity the lost art of contemplative prayer as practiced for sixteen centuries in monastic tradition, and provides 500 thematically arranged scripture texts as rich resources for this intimate prayer.
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Praying the Word : an introduction to lectio divinaPublication Date: 1999-03-01
Scripture brings the Word of God to us when we read and welcome it in faith as the Word which comes from God and leads to God. Scripture is the means by which we live in God. The ancient monastic (and patristic) way of reading Scripture involves reflection (meditation) and prayer. It is listening to the Word, allowing the Word to become active in our lives. It is, in the words of Saint Jerome, 'opening our sails to the Holy Spirit without knowing on what shores we will land.'
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Transformed by God's Word: discovering the power of Lectio and Visio divina by 
Lectio Divina - The Sacred Art: transforming words and images into heart-centered prayer by 
Eat This Book: a conversation in the art of spiritual reading by 
Scripture in tradition : the Bible and its interpretation in the Orthodox Church by 
Sacred Reading: the ancient art of lectio divina by 
Opening to God: lectio divina and life as prayer by 
Too deep for words : rediscovering Lectio Divina by 
Praying the Word : an introduction to lectio divina