ISSN 1939-3881
3 papers in the library · 9 citations · publishing 2009-2024
CrossCurrents June 1, 2024 Regina Coupar
Abstract: Writing from the perspective of a practicing visual artist, and drawing from my original doctoral research (D.Min., University of Toronto, 2014), I will show that the creation and appreciation of visual art can provide a direct avenue for aesthetic experience relevant to religion. As my historical and contemporary examples suggest, in connection with the theoretical work of (among...
CrossCurrents June 1, 2010 Wakoh Shannon Hickey 6 citations
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique Wakoh Shannon Hickey Twenty‐seven adults are arrayed at the front of a large, sloping lecture hall: some lying on their backs, some upright in free‐standing chairs, some in the tiers of seats bolted to the floor. Most appear to range in age from mid‐forties to mid‐fifties. The lights are dim, most eyes are closed, and except for occasional fidgeting, everyone...
CrossCurrents March 1, 2009 Cynthia Bourgeault 3 citations
Centering Prayer and Attention of the Heart Cynthia Bourgeault In the thirty years now since Centering Prayer first moved beyond the walls of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Massachusetts and became a lay groundswell, it has certainly implanted itself deeply and (one hopes) permanently in the canon of Christian contemplative practice. Yet it still jostles somewhat uneasily against the walls of received...