Reading with God: Lectio Divina
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Reading with God: Lectio Divina
By (Author) Dom David Foster
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
22nd December 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Spirituality and religious experience
Theology
248.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
176
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
236g
Description
David Foster is a Benedictine Monk of Downside Abbey and chaplain to Downside School. He has always been concerned to bring the riches of the monastic tradition to lay people as they struggle to live the Christian life in the modern world. Lectio Divina or the art of spiritual reading is an art which is all but lost outside monastic communities. But following St Benedict's opening command in his Rule to 'listen', attending to the word of God through the printed text is an art which needs to be rediscovered in a world in which we are surrounded by a cacophony of sound and noise. David Foster has written a masterly guide to this art.
Reviews
'David Foster's book is a welcome aid in praying with scripture. Foster's book on Lectio Divina or 'godly reading' offers the reader a way of coming to terms with reading and praying the Bible. It is a handbook that offers a practical guide for grounding one's life on the Bible....Foster's gradual introduction to reading scriptuer is ideal for the beginner. The book should prove useful to seminarians and students of theology. Their inital encounter with scripture in the breviary and in study can be quite overwhelming. This book ought to allow one to appreciate and to be pastorally challenged by the Word of God. Finally, pastors may find this book useful as a basic text for instructing people on reading scripture.' The Furrow, Martin Whelan, October 2006
Mentioned title in The Tablet, 2008.
'intelligent, well-written spirituality in the Catholic tradition...It is a work that will help Christians of all traditions to use scripture to deepen their relationship with God' * Church of England Newspaper *
Quotes from author about title, in The Tablet, 18 Feb 2006 -- Mary Blanche Ridge * Tablet, The *
Author Bio
Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the Benedictine College of Sant Anselmo in Rome.
