Description
SPIRITUAL WRITINGS ON MARY explores a collection of writings on Mary, the mother of Jesus dating from the time of the Hebrew Bible prophecies to the present. Selections from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an include sacred poems, prayers, hymns and songs, scriptural passages and prose pieces illustrative of the unbroken river of reflection, devotion and love that Mary has inspired throughout the centuries. Selections also include contributions from wisdom and spiritual writers, visionaries mediaeval thinkers and modern theologians from a wide range of Western and Eastern backgrounds including Dante, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Angela of Foligno, Paul Claudel, Herbert A. Kenny, Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure and Hans Kung. With facing page commentary that opens up these texts to people of all faiths and backgrounds, SPIRITUAL WRITINGS ON MARY helps readers to experience the beauty and mystery surrounding Mary, while learning about her timeless effect on the human soul.
About the Author
Mary Ford-Grabowsky is an award-winning author and teacher in the field of theology and spirituality. After receiving her doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary, she taught in the religious studies department at Regis College, edited the journal Fellowship in Prayer, and became academic dean at the University of Creation Spirituality in the San Francisco Bay area. Among her books are Stations of the Light, Sacred Voices*, WomanPrayers*, Prayers for All People, and Sacred Poems and Prayers of Love (*selections of One Spirit Book Club). An experienced lecturer, workshop leader, and radio and television speaker, she is featured on the widely-acclaimed CD produced by the BBC, Hildegard von Bingen in Portrait, and her interview with "New Dimensions" radio in California was reproduced on a four-disc set called Women of Wisdom. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. Andrew Harvey is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Son of Man. His memoir A Journey in Ladakh was praised as "one of the best books available on the Western experience of Tibetan spiritual life." His just-published memoir Sun at Midnight was praised by Deepak Chopra, who said, "for those who have gone through the dark night of the soul and for those seeking a genuine understanding of spirituality, this is a very inspiring story." Harvey is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Born in India, he was the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford. He has devoted the past thirty years of his life to study and experiencing the world's spiritual traditions and is widely recognized as one of our greatest communicators of mysticism and contemplative living today.
Book Information
ISBN 9781594730016
Author Mary Ford-Grabowsky
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,US
Publisher Jewish Lights Publishing
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm
About the Author
Mary Ford-Grabowsky is an award-winning author and teacher in the field of theology and spirituality. After receiving her doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary, she taught in the religious studies department at Regis College, edited the journal Fellowship in Prayer, and became academic dean at the University of Creation Spirituality in the San Francisco Bay area. Among her books are Stations of the Light, Sacred Voices*, WomanPrayers*, Prayers for All People, and Sacred Poems and Prayers of Love (*selections of One Spirit Book Club). An experienced lecturer, workshop leader, and radio and television speaker, she is featured on the widely-acclaimed CD produced by the BBC, Hildegard von Bingen in Portrait, and her interview with "New Dimensions" radio in California was reproduced on a four-disc set called Women of Wisdom. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. Andrew Harvey is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Son of Man. His memoir A Journey in Ladakh was praised as "one of the best books available on the Western experience of Tibetan spiritual life." His just-published memoir Sun at Midnight was praised by Deepak Chopra, who said, "for those who have gone through the dark night of the soul and for those seeking a genuine understanding of spirituality, this is a very inspiring story." Harvey is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Born in India, he was the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford. He has devoted the past thirty years of his life to study and experiencing the world's spiritual traditions and is widely recognized as one of our greatest communicators of mysticism and contemplative living today.
Book Information
ISBN 9781594730016
Author Mary Ford-Grabowsky
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,US
Publisher Jewish Lights Publishing
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm
