The Thomas Keating Reader is a wonderful introduction to the extensive writings of Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk who is one of those credited with beginning the Centering Prayer movement. For a quarter of a century, Fr. Keating contributed articles on centering prayer—the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative tradition—to the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition. The Thomas Keating Reader gathers for the first time thirty of those articles (some never published elsewhere) to offer a valuable overview of some of the main strands of Fr. Thomas’ thinking and practice on centering prayer, lectio divina, and interreligious dialogue. It offers a broad introduction to the concepts that have animated Contemplative Outreach and reveals the gifts and challenges of the practice of the spiritual life.
The audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books. A sample is provided here:
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