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John Skinner
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Echoing The Silence
$16.18What is prayer? How may we approach our Maker in a simple, direct way? In listening to the Silence within.
Educated by the Jesuits from the age of nine, John Skinner left school to join the Society of Jesus. For thirteen year, he followed their formation, especially the Ignatian method of prayer. But ahead of ordination, he changed course.
Returning to his former train twenty years on, he managed to spend a bare fortnight living, praying, and working alongside the Carthusians. This time led to an invitation to those outside the cloister to deepen their own experience of prayer.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Book Of Margery Kempe
$19.00Though a familiar name, little was known about the English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) for hundreds of years except that she had an association with the great Julian of Norwich. This all changed in 1934 with the discovery of The Book of Margery Kempe in a library where it had lain hidden for four hundred years. Finding Margery’s own story was important not just because of the light it shed on her life, but it also turned out to be the first known autobiography in the English language. Even more intriguing to the experts of the day, this unique document was written by a woman.
But if anyone had expected to find her anything like her cloistered contemporary, Julian, they were in for something of a surprise. Far from being a typical holy woman, Margery Kempe was married and mother of fourteen children. Moreover, she had been a woman of substance, even running a large brewery for a time. After turning to religion, she traveled thousands of miles around the known world on pilgrimages to distant lands.
Beyond the circumstances of her life, what’s most compelling about the text is the inner Margery that emerges. Her account of spiritual awakening, far from being a blissful episode is instead full of conflict and recrimination. What good was this new way of life if it caused her such trouble? Was this really the only way to lead a holy life? Margery remained unsure of the answers. But her patience in her struggle is a wonder to behold, and an example for us today.
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Revelation Of Love
$15.00Few texts have had held such interest or been the object of such enduring devotion as has Julian of Norwich’s 14th-century classic A Revelation of Love. This great work–along with The Cloud of Unknowing and Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle–form the very heart of Western mysticism, and each generation has cherished its beautiful poetry and profound account of a soul’s quest for the divine. This new translation of Julian’s mystical writings offers today’s reader immediate access to this most powerful spiritual of books written in English. Julian’s message of God’s intimate and enabling love is revealed as both beguiling and inescapable. The poetry and rhythmic structure of the original Middle English text are respected, yet it is given fresh immediacy since it is now rendered in inclusive language for the first time ever. Moreover Julian’s key ideas are easily identified-even by newcomers to her unique system of thought-by means of an original and authoritative linking commentary at the head of each key chapter, as well as continuing support from highly informative footnotes and a detailed glossary of the main terms used.
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