Monday, January 09, 2006
Moot Workshops | Practicing the Presence of God - the use of contemplative approaches to prayer reframed for today
Much has been said and written about Emerging and Fresh Expressions of Church developing an ancient:future approach to the ancient resources of not only the Anglican Church but 2000 years of the Christian Church. One of the greatest inheritance from the Church before the enlightenment, was with what was called ‘mental prayer’, that people could have transcendent spiritual encounters with Christ and the divine. This was a from of knowing God, not by facts (the obsession of modernity) but knowing God through experience through encounter (as created in the premodern and reframed in to the postmodern). The work shop will draw on forms of contemplation including phrasing, (repetitive self-chants with biblical texts), and other forms of prayer as encounter. This will build on the prayer workshop completed last term, and will relate to the content of some of the draft Guide to Moot’s Shared Way of Life - (formerly Rule of Life).
Venue: St Matthew’s Drawing Room
Date: Tues 10th January 2006
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Time: Around 1 hour.
Venue: St Matthew’s Drawing Room
Date: Tues 10th January 2006
Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Time: Around 1 hour.
