Name: For God Alone
Price: 12.5 GBP
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Author: Bonnie Thurston
ISBN: 9780232527605

Bonnie Thurston is the author of many books and articles about spirituality and prayer. In For God Alone she shows us, clearly and practically, how to pray. The result is a unique introduction to prayer that will encourage all Christian readers seeking to deepen the life of prayer. For God Alone introduces three traditional trajectories of Christian prayer: oration, meditation, and contemplation. Thurston guides the reader from familiar "voiced prayers" through the prayer of thought and intellect to the less familiar prayer of quiet or listening. Thurston concludes each chapter with practical exercises for the practice of prayer, suggestions for further reading, and space for reader's notes. Drawing material from both Eastern and Western traditions, For God Alone is learned but conversational in tone and thoroughly accessible to the general reader. Adult education classes in various denominations will profit from reading this book. It will also be used in practical ministries courses, spirituality courses, and courses in the theology and practice of prayer.

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This is not to be dismissed as just another contribution to the glut of 'how to pray' books. The author describes her experiences with humility, common sense, honesty, encouragement and tact; '...prayer is a subject in which everyone gets an "A" .' (p. 7). A welcoming 'Introduction' is followed by nine chapters, each of which stands on its own, such as a ‘Definition of Prayer’, 'Praying with Words', 'Toward an Anthropology' and 'a Cosmology' of prayer, 'The Jesus Prayer' and 'Praying with the Body'. The book is not, as she says, exhaustive of the methods of prayer. Most chapters end with a 'Conclusion' and 'For Further Reading and Exploration'. 'Summary Notes' conclude the book, including practical suggestions about and observable results of prayer. 'Notes' on the chapters and a 'Select Bibliography' could do with a bit of tidying up. Bonnie Thurston writes with an engaging and conversational style, bringing in quotations and other sources as part of her own reflections. She emphasises that prayer is a gift from God - a gift she has received and which she wishes to share with us all in a way that is right for each person.

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