Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic

Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic - Paperback

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Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic - Paperback

Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic - Paperback

by Cynthia Bourgeault
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The first portrait of spiritual luminary Thomas Keating's remarkable evolution, in the last decades of his life, into a fully realized modern-day Christian mystic.

In the first four decades of his life as a Trappist monk, Thomas Keating created a comprehensive, unified psychospiritual pathway leading from healing to holiness and from contemporary psychological wellness to classic mystical sanctity and beatitude. As one of the key innovators of the meditative practice of Centering Prayer, he fashioned a powerful on-ramp to the Christian contemplative tradition. Yet, as beloved author and Keating disciple Cynthia Bourgeault shows, that was not the end of Keating's story--his evolution as a spiritual thinker and mystic continued in ways few have explored in depth. In this unique blend of biography, personal experience, and close reading of his late works, Bourgeault illuminates Keating's remarkable spiritual development from the late 1980s until his death in 2018. She explores:

  • Keating's increasing engagement with nondual spiritual practice
  • His contributions to interspiritual dialogue
  • The evolution of his early teaching on the movement from "false self" to "true self," to that from "true self" to "no self"
  • His final "dark night of the spirit" and passage through death
  • New evidence that he never left Christianity but carried it with him to new places

These profound final stages of Keating's spiritual journey demonstrate how readers might find their own way as modern mystics, fundamentally at home and at peace in the universe.
ISBN9781645471844
Author Cynthia Bourgeault
PublisherShambhala
GenreBiography and Religion & spirituality
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic - Paperback

Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic - Paperback

By Cynthia Bourgeault

About Cynthia Bourgeault

Modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader, Cynthia Bourgeault divides her time between solitude at her seaside hermitage in Maine, and a demanding schedule traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom path. She is the founding Director of both The Contemplative Society and the Aspen Wisdom School. Cynthia is the author of eight books: The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, The Wisdom Jesus, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Mystical Hope, The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Chanting the Psalms, and Love is Stronger Than Death. She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles and courses on the Christian spiritual life. She is a past Fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and an oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery in Big Sur, California. Cynthia continues to contribute to The Contemplative Society in her role as Principal Teacher and advisor. She passionately promotes the practice of Centering Prayer, and has worked closely with Thomas Keating, Bruno Barnhart, Richard Rohr, as well as many other contemplative teachers and leaders within the Christian tradition as well as other spiritual paths.

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