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Part 5: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  Misperception #5: Centering Prayer is “Eastern” Meditation.    Centering Prayer is not Eastern Meditation because it is a method of prayer formulated by several Roman Catholic Trappist Monks using principles drawn from the Catholic and Christian monastic and contemplative prayer tradition through such primary Christian writers as John of The Cross, the unknown author of the [...]

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Part 4: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

by Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.  All Rights Reserved. Misperception #4: Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine inside as your inner, true self. I can understand why some might think that Centering Prayer is about finding the Divine “inside.” Sometimes even the best intended teachers generate more confusion than clarity on this subject. [...]

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Part 3: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  by Rev. Peter Traben Haas    © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.   All Rights Reserved.          Misperception #3: Centering Prayer is dangerous.     Centering Prayer is not dangerous, but it can be disruptive. Centering Prayer is disruptive to the parts of us that wish to resist God’s love and grace. These parts, psychologically speaking, might be called the [...]

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Part 2: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

By Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. Misperception #2: Centering Prayer is not biblical. Centering Prayer is as biblical as you want it to be. While the exact words “Centering Prayer” do not appear anywhere in the Hebrew or Christian Scriptures, the motivation and purpose of Centering Prayer do. For example, [...]

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A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

August 19, 2010 By Rev. Peter Traben Haas © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com. All Rights Reserved. While the contemplative disposition often prefers silence, sometimes it is useful to speak up. In the next several posts, I will respond to 5 major criticisms and misperceptions about Centering Prayer. I will then articulate 3 invitations to Centering Prayer. I [...]

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