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Praying with Every Heart
Orienting Our Lives to the Wholeness of the World|
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| Verlag: | Wipf And Stock Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 26.08.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781725273016 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 290 |
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Beschreibungen
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.
Cláudio Carvalhaes is Associate Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of
<i>Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the Ends of the World</i> (2020);
<i>What’s Worship Got to Do With It? Interpreting Life Liturgically</i> (2018);
<i>Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives—Only One Is Holy</i> (2015); and
<i>Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality</i> (2013).
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<i>Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the Ends of the World</i> (2020);
<i>What’s Worship Got to Do With It? Interpreting Life Liturgically</i> (2018);
<i>Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives—Only One Is Holy</i> (2015); and
<i>Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality</i> (2013).
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“Describing prayer as a way to ‘gain a consciousness of who we are in solidarity with the world we live in and the earth that hosts us,’ Carvalhaes asks us to orient our lives to the wholeness of the world through praying with every being, every heart. He lays out for us an intimate story that begins with his mother’s teaching around prayer and takes us through the words and aspirations of people working for liberation across the globe. . . . This is a book that deeply honors people, their shared speech, heartfelt requests, and courageous efforts. It must be read slowly, lingered over, digested, and metabolized. We must get wet here with their words, like a walk through morning dew that leaves us soaked with the dignity of so many voices struggling for recognition and freedom.”
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<br> —Kosen Gregory Snyder, Union Theological Seminary
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<br> “A worthwhile contribution to the field of prayer as liturgical practice. This book exposes us to other ways of understanding prayer using contextual, holistic, and liberational approaches. The use of practical examples and artwork makes the book unique. It also brings home people’s lived experiences. I commend the author for embodying marginalized communities in this work. This volume is relevant to both faith communities and academics.”
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<br> —Lilian Cheelo Siwila, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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<br> “In this
<i>colono</i> mother’s book about prayer, Professor Carvalhaes leads us to Dona Esther: ‘Mother teach us to pray, just as Jesus taught his disciples.’ And mother Esther will tell us, ‘When you pray, make sure that you pray with every heart.’ My late mother, a ritual-maker herself, would surely dance her
<i>amen</i> to this new and refreshingly revolutionary catechism on prayer.”
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<br> —Ferdinand Anno, Union Theological Seminary–Philippines
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<br> —Kosen Gregory Snyder, Union Theological Seminary
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<br> “A worthwhile contribution to the field of prayer as liturgical practice. This book exposes us to other ways of understanding prayer using contextual, holistic, and liberational approaches. The use of practical examples and artwork makes the book unique. It also brings home people’s lived experiences. I commend the author for embodying marginalized communities in this work. This volume is relevant to both faith communities and academics.”
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<br> —Lilian Cheelo Siwila, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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<br> “In this
<i>colono</i> mother’s book about prayer, Professor Carvalhaes leads us to Dona Esther: ‘Mother teach us to pray, just as Jesus taught his disciples.’ And mother Esther will tell us, ‘When you pray, make sure that you pray with every heart.’ My late mother, a ritual-maker herself, would surely dance her
<i>amen</i> to this new and refreshingly revolutionary catechism on prayer.”
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<br> —Ferdinand Anno, Union Theological Seminary–Philippines
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