Art & prayer : the beauty of turning to God / Timothy Verdon.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, 2014Description: ix, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1612615724 (hardback)
- 9781612615721 (hardback)
- Art and prayer
- Arte della preghiera. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 248.32 V486 | Available | 33111007941673 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Prayer is natural for human beings, a spontaneous impulse common in all people. Yet, beyond instinct, there is a kind of prayer that's conscious and articulate, that we have to be taught. There is an "art of prayer," when faith and prayer become creative responses by which creatures made in the image and likeness of the Creator relate to him with help of the imagination. Timothy Verdon explores these essential interactions in this magnificent book. Richly illustrated, Monsignor Verdon explains that images work in believers as tools that teach them how to turn to God. Art and Prayer explores these interactions in detail, demonstrating that prayer can become a fruit of the sanctified imagination - a way of beauty and turning to God.
"Mount Tabor Books."
Includes bibliographical references and index of illustrations.
Prayer, Life, Art -- Spaces of Prayer -- Liturgical Prayer -- The Prayer of Pleading -- Lectio Divina -- Contemplative Prayer -- In the Hour of Death.
"Prayer is natural for human beings, a spontaneous impulse common in all people. Yet, beyond instinct, there is a kind of prayer that's conscious and articulate, that we have to be taught. There is an "art of prayer," when faith and prayer become creative responses by which creatures made in the image and likeness of the Creator relate to him with help of the imagination. Timothy Verdon explores these essential interactions in this magnificent book. Richly illustrated, Monsignor Verdon explains that images work in believers as tools that teach them how to turn to God. Art and Prayer explores these interactions in detail, demonstrating that prayer can become a fruit of the sanctified imagination - a way of beauty and turning to God. "-- Provided by publisher.