Christian meditation for trauma-based rumination: A two-part study examining the effects of an internet-based 4-week program.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Knabb ◽  
Veola E. Vazquez ◽  
Robert A. Pate ◽  
Fernando L. Garzon ◽  
Kenneth T. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Christian Meditation

Christian meditation for repetitive negative thinking: A multisite randomized trial examining the effects of a 4-week preventative program.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Knabb ◽  
Veola E. Vazquez ◽  
Fernando L. Garzon ◽  
Kristy M. Ford ◽  
Kenneth T. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Repetitive Negative Thinking ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
Christian Meditation

scholarly journals Forming “Mediators and Instruments of Grace”: The Emerging Role of Monastics in Teaching Contemplative Ambiguity and Practice to the Laity

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Paula Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Centering Prayer ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Teaching Role ◽  
Meditation Technique ◽  
Christian Meditation ◽  
Ways Of Being

Drawing from long-term ethnographic research with a global network of contemplative Christians, this paper discusses an emerging teaching role for North American monasteries as the numbers of avowed religious decline. Since the Trappist community of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, first developed the Christian meditation technique called Centering Prayer in the 1970s, monks and nuns have increasingly become teachers, models, and stabilizers of non-monastic practitioners who attempt to transform their ways of being and thinking towards monastic-inspired sensibilities. Their guidance includes the use of face-to-face, literary, and virtual means to teach methods of contemplative intersubjectivity and a commitment to lives based on service, hospitality, and humility, as well as on study and formalized rites. The paper focuses on non-monastics’ strong attraction to monastic teachings on ambiguity as a source of creativity and wonder in uncertain times, as practiced through a combination of cataphatic and apophatic ritual, including Centering Prayer. The number of monastic postulants continues to falter, yet a much larger, “non-gathered” community of non-monastic oblates and neo-monastic contemplatives has grown increasingly reliant on monastics to help provide alternatives. The rising interdependence of monastics and non-monastics may become the basis of a transformation of Christian monasticism and a new concept of religious community.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Letter on Christian Meditation

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Joseph Card. Ratzinger ◽  
Alberto Bovone
Keyword(s):  
Christian Meditation

scholarly journals Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Michael Stoeber
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Insight Meditation ◽  
Christian Meditation ◽  
Transpersonal Theory

This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) and St. Teresa of Avila (1550-1582). It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics, including some comparative reflections of this form of Christian meditation with Buddhist Samatha Vipassanā (calming insight) meditation and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. It also draws on the transpersonal theory of philosopher Michael Washburn, in exploring resistances, obstacles, and goals of such mystical practices.

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