Download e-book for iPad: Uncommon Prayer: Prayer in Everyday Experience by Michael Plekon

By Michael Plekon

In unusual Prayer: Prayer in daily event, Michael Plekon desires to switch our minds on what constitutes prayer. In doing so, he makes a theological declare that ordinary points of the Christian existence are most sensible understood as prayer, wherein encouraging us to work out that daily life incorporates spiritual import; prayer and the spiritual lifestyles aren't constrained to important locations and instances, yet are open to all believers constantly. Plekon examines the works of numerous authors, together with many that have challenged the established order of institutional church buildings. He asks us to hear what poets, writers, activists, and others let us know approximately how they pray at paintings and at domestic, with colleagues, family members, and acquaintances, in the entire reviews of existence, from pleasure to soreness, disappointment to pray. between them are Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Heather Havrilesky, Sara Miles, Thomas Merton, Mary Oliver, Christian Wiman, Mary Karr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Dorothy Day, Maria Skobtsova, Paul Evdokimov, Seraphim of Sarov, and Richard Rohr. Plekon argues that prayer features a a lot wider number of job than formal and liturgical prayers and that, via spotting such facets of prayer, the believer is made extra receptive to transformative facets of prayerful attitudes.

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