LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kenneth bragan

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kenneth bragan

  • New Directions Towards Christian Renewal
    Kenneth Bragan
    Kenneth Bragan believes Christianity is approaching a time of change, one that is under pressure from changing world views. The religion is changing from a largely belief-based faith to one that is more experience-based.“I present Thomas Merton as an exemplar of the latter and Laurence Freeman as an advocate of meditative Christianity, which increases in importance as it receiv...
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  • Women Who Wrote for Their Lives
    Kenneth Bragan
    Women Who Wrote for Their Lives: The Healing Power of Creative Writing was inspired by author Janet Frame, the late New Zealand writer who penned novels, poetry, and short stories, as well as her own powerful autobiography.Frame’s dramatic personal history included years of psychiatric hospitalisation. Born in 1924, Frame passed away in 2004. During her early life, patients wit...
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  • Natural Spirituality, Thomas Merton, and Christian Renewal
    Kenneth Bragan
    Kenneth Bragan has previously written a psychological study of the life of Thomas Merton as well as a book stressing the importance of Merton’s spirituality.In this new book, he uses neuroscience to place Merton’s spirituality in the context of natural spirituality and uses this as a way of opening a door to Christian renewal. He writes, “Neuroscience may be offering a new and ...
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  • The Rising Importance of Thomas Merton’s Spiritual Legacy
    Kenneth Bragan
    The current renewed interest in mystical experience, which stems in part from the neuroscience claim that there is a spiritual doorway in the brain, provides the grounds for placing the spiritual legacy of Thomas Merton in the context of natural spirituality, where it fits comfortably. His journals demonstrate clearly the important part that mystical experience (what he called ...
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  • Subjectivity
    Kenneth Bragan
    Subjectivity: The Hidden and Neglected Side of Human Nature addresses the important issue of psychology’s failure to embrace subjectivity to any great extent. The book also takes up the challenge of formalizing a subjective science based on living data and sure intuition, as suggested by D.H Lawrence.Philosophical and theological understandings of the nature of 'being' are expl...
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  • The Making of a Saint
    Kenneth Bragan
    How could a man who had an emotionally deprived and traumatic childhood find the strength later in life to enter a monastery and become a spiritual master?The Making of a Saint is the true story of the American priest and Catholic writer Thomas Merton, who lived from 1915 to 1968. He wrote more than 70 books on spirituality, pacifism and social justice, and his words influenced...
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