Bede Griffiths - The New Creation in Christ

Bede Griffiths

Meditation and CommunityThe New Creation in Christ

• Volume 1  The Monastic Ideal, According to John Main  ...the call of the monk, and hence humanity as a whole - insofar as there is an archetype of the monk in every human being- is to open to one's eternal potential in God, in the the new creation whose center is Christ. - Bede Griffiths
• Volume 2     The Extension of the Monastic Ideal to the Laity...a monk's lectio divina, meditating on the sacred scriptures, could lead to true contemplation, but again, it is not properly contemplative insofar as it is a method that can easily be distracting whereas pure prayer is beyond words. - Bede Griffiths
• Volume 3     The Way of Meditation With a Mantra.....the art of the mantra consists of the repetition of a sacred word or verse which has the effect of 'centering' the person, of unifying all the faculties of focusing them on the indwelling presence of God. - Bede Griffiths
• Volume 4      Mantra Meditation in the Eastern Tradition ...to sacrifice is 'to make a thing sacred' and ancient people understood that the universe was based on sacrifice, a turning of things over to God.  - Bede Griffiths
• Volume 5     The Future of Contemplative Life in the Church ...the monastic order is the prophetic order in the church.  The gospel is primarily not a word to be preached but the spirit to be communicated. - Bede Griffiths
  

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