Diversity of Centering Prayer

This text relates to the practice of Centering Prayer - which involves the daily practice of meditative prayer to enhance one's spiritual life - to different religious practices and the various conceptual backgrounds out of which Centering Prayer has arisen. It explores the historical aspects of Centering Prayer and the Christian contemplative tradition and how Centering Prayer has been used with other disciplines, such as psychology. The contributors to this volume in the Centering Prayer series are Cynthia Bourgeault, George F. Cairns, Thomas Keating OCSO, Ernest E. Larkin OCarm, Kay Lindahl, M. Basil Pennington OCSO, Gustave Reininger, Eugene Taylor Sutton, and Lyla Yastion.

Preface	p. 7
Centering Prayer: A Living Tradition	p. 11
Practicing Centering Prayer	p. 16
Contemplative Prayer Forms Today: Are They Contemplation?	p. 27
Centering Prayer as Radical Consent	p. 39
"Oh, Freedom!": Contemplative Dimensions of African-American Spirituality	p. 51
The Art of Dialogue and Centering Prayer	p. 65
"Where Two or Three Are Gathered": Centering Prayer and the Small Group Process	p. 77
Introducing Centering Prayer into the Curriculum at an Ecumenical Seminary: A Call to Personal and Systemic Conversion	p. 111
Forgiving the Unforgivable	p. 123
The Method of Centering Prayer	p. 129
Finding Peace at the Center	p. 136
Contributors	p. 140
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