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Praying with the Grain: How your personality affects the way you pray
Pablo Martinez
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Description for Praying with the Grain: How your personality affects the way you pray
Paperback. Psychiatrist and pastor Dr Pablo Martinez explains how our temperament and personality affect our prayer life. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCR1; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194.
Why do so many struggle to pray? Dr Pablo Martinez, a medical doctor and psychotherapist, suggests that our basic personality type strongly affects how we pray, and what we pray about. Extroverts may struggle to develop a regular prayer life; introverts will be more likely to set time apart. Thinking types find prayer more satisfactory if accompanied by pen and paper; feeling types may long for intimacy with God; intuitive types tend to be innovators and visionaries, and may have a more mystical bent; sensation types often have a particular capacity for spontaneous prayer; and so on. The purpose of ... Read more
Why do so many struggle to pray? Dr Pablo Martinez, a medical doctor and psychotherapist, suggests that our basic personality type strongly affects how we pray, and what we pray about. Extroverts may struggle to develop a regular prayer life; introverts will be more likely to set time apart. Thinking types find prayer more satisfactory if accompanied by pen and paper; feeling types may long for intimacy with God; intuitive types tend to be innovators and visionaries, and may have a more mystical bent; sensation types often have a particular capacity for spontaneous prayer; and so on. The purpose of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
SPCK Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857211521
SKU
V9780857211521
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Ref
99-50
About Pablo Martinez
Trained as a medical doctor and psychiatrist, Pablo Martinez works at aChristian hospital in Barcelona. He has also developed a wide ministry as lecturer and counsellor. A former President of the Spanish GBU (the equivalent of the UCCF), he is still deeply involved with student ministry. He is a former Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Spanish Theological Seminary, ... Read more
Reviews for Praying with the Grain: How your personality affects the way you pray
`A profound, practical and personal book in which the skill of the psychiatrist and the gentleness of the pastor are combined … I cannot imagine any reader failing to be helped by it, as I have been myself.’
John Stott
John Stott