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Reflections on the Unknowable

By Thomas Keating
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Reflections on the Unknowable distils over seventy years of monastic experience and more than three decades of writings on centring prayer by Fr. Thomas Keating. The book explores deepening intimacy with God and engaging with the Christian contemplative tradition. The first section features an extensive interview discussing divine concepts such as astonishment, playfulness, and transformation accessible to those open to God. The second section offers thirty-one concise homilies covering subjects from the Trinity and Epiphany to spiritual evolution, interior silence, poverty, and the beauty found in chaos.
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A distillation of over seventy years as a monastic and more than three decades of writing on centring prayer, Reflections on the Unknowable is Fr. Thomas Keating's latest volume on how we might develop our intimacy with God and our experience of the Christian contemplative tradition.

The first part of the book consists of a long interview with Fr. Thomas, in which he examines concepts of the divine—including the astonishments, playfulness, and transformation available to the individual willing to open the door to God.

The second section consists of thirty-one brief homilies, which range over topics as diverse as the Trinity and the message of Epiphany, spiritual evolution and cultivating interior silence, and the treasure of spiritual poverty and the beauty of chaos.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781590564370

Publisher: Lantern Books,US

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 June 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Lantern Books,US

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Thomas Keating

About the Author

Thomas Keating is a founding member and the spiritual guide of Contemplative Outreach. He has served on Contemplative Outreach's Board of Trustees since the organisation's beginning and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board. Fr. Keating is one of the principal architects and teachers of the Christian contemplative prayer movement. He is the author of many books and lives at St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado.

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