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Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer; A New Edition of A Lever and a Place to Stand
Richard Rohr
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Description for Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer; A New Edition of A Lever and a Place to Stand
Paperback. Rev. ed. of: A lever and a place to stand: the contemplative stance, the active prayer. c2011. Num Pages: 105 pages. BIC Classification: HRLK; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 152.
Now in a new edition, this thought-provoking book by popular author Richard Rohr offers a critique of religion as a system that often creates an alternative, pious world without really challenging oppression, materialism, and sectarianism in our modern world. Religion, he says, without this contemplative stance, is often part of the problem. Drawing from Jesus’ parable of the rich man, Rohr believes that religion can only rediscover itself as a transformational system if it passes through the eye of a needle, if it overcomes its own temptation to power, wealth, and fundamentalism. A true contemplative stance crosses boundaries, is not ... Read more
Now in a new edition, this thought-provoking book by popular author Richard Rohr offers a critique of religion as a system that often creates an alternative, pious world without really challenging oppression, materialism, and sectarianism in our modern world. Religion, he says, without this contemplative stance, is often part of the problem. Drawing from Jesus’ parable of the rich man, Rohr believes that religion can only rediscover itself as a transformational system if it passes through the eye of a needle, if it overcomes its own temptation to power, wealth, and fundamentalism. A true contemplative stance crosses boundaries, is not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Paulist Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
153g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Mahwah, United States
ISBN
9780809148677
SKU
V9780809148677
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