The Book Depository Earth, Our Original Monastery by Christine Valters Paintner
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Description: Earth, Our Original Monastery : Paperback : SORIN BOOKS : 9781932057201 : 193205720X : 03 Apr 2020 : In Earth, Our Original Monastery, Christine Valters Paintner, shares how living contemplatively with an appreciation for the natural world can make readers more aware of the presence of God in every aspect of their lives. She explores monks, mystics, and saints who have experienced the goodness of the Divine in nature and invites readers to find solace and spiritual revelation in the wonder of God's creation--. The Book Depository Earth, Our Original Monastery by Christine Valters Paintner - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9781932057201
MPN: 193205720X
GTIN: 9781932057201
Author: Sue Denim
Rating: 5
Review: Earth, Our Original Monastery, helps us to find and know our rightful place in relationship with Earth. Each chapter engages our senses to penetrate, sink into, and rest in this finding and knowing. Using her extensive knowledge and practice, Christine shows us how Earth is the origin of our ideas of Cathedral, Scripture, Saints, Spiritual Directors, Icons, Sacraments, and Liturgy. Each chapter looks at how Earth gives in meaningful ways. By slowing down to engage with the transformative, creative, and inviting practices, we have the opportunity to draw closer to this giving, and to receive. Earth can speak with us if we learn to listen. Chapter by chapter, Christine lays before us expansive reviews and analyses, weaving activities to engage the senses in surprising and delightful ways. John, her husband, brings new insights to familiar texts, opening us further to how things might be. Contemporary and ancient mystics, saints, legends, and practices are accompanied by herbal teas, balms and body scrubs! The subtext of this book might be Earth saying, “Hello, come on in, you belong here, and you’re welcome”. Christine explains how a right relationship with Earth will naturally lead us to act to correct the dangerous ecological imbalances that we are experiencing today.
Author: Educated Consumer
Rating: 2
Review: I enjoyed this book and underlined a lot to think about, but there were too many sections that bordered on weird and worshiping the Earth for me. I think the extra parts that are added by the author and her husband could be left out and then I would have rated it higher. I believe that creation has God's fingerprints all over it. I believe there are many things that we can learn from nature. I don't want to worship nature though, and I felt like this was headed down that path on several occasions.
