The first portrait of spiritual luminary Thomas Keating’s remarkable
evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized
modern-day Christian mystic. In the first four decades of his life as
a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified
psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from
contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and
beatitude. As one of the key innovators of the meditative practice of
Centering Prayer, he fashioned a powerful on-ramp to the Christian
contemplative tradition. Yet, as beloved author and Keating disciple
Cynthia Bourgeault shows, that was not the end of Keating’s
story—his evolution as a spiritual thinker and mystic continued in
ways few have explored in depth. In this unique blend of biography,
personal experience, and close reading of his late works, Bourgeault
illuminates Keating’s remarkable spiritual development from the late
1980s until his death in 2018. She explores: Keating’s increasing
engagement with nondual spiritual practice His contributions to
interspiritual dialogue The evolution of his early teaching on the
movement from “false self” to “true self,” to that from
“true self” to “no self” His final “dark night of the
spirit” and passage through death New evidence that he never left
Christianity but carried it with him to new places These profound
final stages of Keating’s spiritual journey demonstrate how readers
might find their own way as modern mystics, fundamentally at home and
at peace in the universe.
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The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic
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ISBN
9780834846012
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Random House Publishing Services
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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