Prayer of Jesus - Prayer of the Heart combines deep insights into the meaning of the Bible, the teachings of the earliest Christian saints, and practical step-by-step information for individuals seeking genuine spiritual transformation. This book will enlighten seekers of truth from all walks of life and assist the Christian world in finding the source of its renewal.

Prayer of Jesus, Prayer of the Heart

Goettmann, Alphonse

Goettmann, Rachel

Nottingham, Theodore

Religion & Spirituality

Paulist Pr

Review The authors present an eloquent interpretation of the Christian way of transformation which will be an eye opener to every reader who is seeking to enter into communion with God through Christ, the Revealer. -- Dr. Charles Ashanin, Ph.D. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French

Spiritual Wisdom and Practice of Early Christianity

Inner Life Pubns

Book by Goettmann, Alphonse, Goettmann, Rachel, Nottingham, Rebecca

Prayer of Jesus - Prayer of the Heart

Nottingham, Rebecca

The Jesus Prayer penetrates everything, freeing us from all the acculturations of the Gospel, re-creating the basis of unity for all Christians and offering them the only possible anchor for a true ecumenism. The Jesus Prayer heals the alienation and distress of humanity, placing its dependence on God alone, substituting the divine life for the little "self" and the interests it must defend. "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20). Here the incarnation continues and completes itself. This book has grown out of lived experience and not out of theory. The Jesus Prayer has been the foundation of our lives for over forty years. But we have not taken a solitary path. This work is the fruit of twenty years of sharing with hundreds of people through retreats and sessions at Bethanie, a "place of rebirth" which we founded on the foundation of the Prayer. A community has been established there which seeks the dynamism of the first communities witnessed to in the Acts of the Apostles who "lived in the Name of Jesus." The Jesus Prayer is a way of life, making us true disciples of Christ. It is a beacon for the people of God, leading them toward the promised land.

The Power of the Name: The History and the Practices of the Jesus Prayer

Christian Books & Bibles

Orthodox Research Inst

In this book, we will consider the fundamental practices of the Christian experience. They are backed by two thousand years of history and a sea of witnesses who, down through the ages, have journeyed on this path that has led them to the summits of wisdom and holiness. The difficulty in the presentation of these "methods" is their inevitable and artificial juxtaposition when they only find their internal and organic coherence in the living Tradition. They are all held together as in a living organism; each element comes at a particular stage in a life that gravitates around its axis: the Christ. That is why we will use a method which will make it possible for the reader not to remain on the exterior as a spectator: the repetition of key ideas. This is a teaching in the form of a spiral, an "eating of the word" where, as in liturgical chants and the experiential method of Scripture, we become that which we "eat" continually, we "are" what we have just read rather than merely "knowing" it. Each chapter is a new approach to the unique Reality. Rather than addressing the intellect, it speaks to the heart.

The Spiritual Wisdom and Practices of Early Christianity