Patricia D. Brown
Autor de Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to the Presence of God
Sobre El Autor
The Author Patricia D. Brown, Ph.D., founder and director of Spiritworks Inc., is an ordained United Methodist minister, pastoral theologian, and associate professor of educational ministries and Christian formation in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University.
Obras de Patricia D. Brown
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- female
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Miembros
- 257
- Popularidad
- #89,245
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 15
Searching Prayers: Examples of Lord's Prayer, Lectio Divina, Journal prayers, Pilgrimage, Icon, Novenas, Prayers for the Dead.
Experiential Prayers: e.g. Fasting, Breath, Benediction, Blessing, Tallith--prayer shawl, Centering, Meditation, Anointing for Healing.
Relational Prayers: Adoration, Affirmation, Confession, Examen, Daily Office, Tongsung Kido, Prayer Walks (Emmaus, Stations of the Cross).
Innovative Prayer: With Our Bodies, Labyrinth, Home Altars, Ignatian (Guided Imagination), Beads, (Rosary, Chaplet), Mandalas, Dance (described in 2d c Acts of John--circle surround dancer).
Did Jesus dance? Brown cites one of our favorite verses--Matthew 11:16-17 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'." Brown takes this verse as an invitation from Jesus to become a "dancing people." [312]
The closing Benediction is Philippians 4:6-7. "Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus."… (más)