Praying with Every Heart
eBook - ePub

Praying with Every Heart

Orienting Our Lives to the Wholeness of the World

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Praying with Every Heart

Orienting Our Lives to the Wholeness of the World

About this book

This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective. "Praying with" offers a distinctive way of praying that can help orient our prayers around the "where" we pray and "with whom" we pray as the locus of the body's and heart's theological praxis. The book helps create language to pray with people and in situations we are not used to praying with; it insists on praying amidst racism, poverty, violence, and suffering; it calls us to pray at night and at the end of the world when we are overcome by fear, hurt, climate disaster, or economic impoverishment; it ventures into interfaith prayer settings; and it claims a sense of "self" that is not discrete, encapsulated in its own thinking or feeling--rather, it understands the notion of the self as entangled with the whole earth and each sentient and nonsentient being. Thus, to "pray with" in this book is to take the location of one's prayer more seriously and, individually and collectively, to gain an awareness of our grounding and positionality, therefore creating a theological structure that assumes both the listening of our own heart and the voices of everything around us.

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Yes, you can access Praying with Every Heart by Cláudio Carvalhaes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Christian Rituals & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Praying with the World at Heart
  6. Chapter 2: Praying Truly, with a Lump in the Throat
  7. Chapter 3: Praying from the Ends of the World
  8. Chapter 4: How to Pray from the Ends of the World
  9. Chapter 5: What Is Common about Our Common Worship?
  10. Chapter 6: Praying with Black People for Darker Faith
  11. Chapter 7: Praying with the People of Axé
  12. Chapter 8: Praying with the Earth
  13. Chapter 9: Praying with Each Other during Infected Holy Week
  14. Chapter 10: Praying with the Night
  15. Chapter 11: Praying with a Lost Heart
  16. Chapter 12: Praying with the End of the World
  17. Conclusion: Orienting Our Hearts to Live Better
  18. Afterword
  19. Bibliography