THE DANGER OF CENTERING PRAYER (This Rock: Novemver 1997) - The Diigo Meta page

• 19 Dec 07
  

  Tom Murphy

  Many people assume centering prayer is compatible with Catholic tradition, but in fact the techniques of centering prayer are neither Christian nor prayer.

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• 14 Mar 05
  

  Catholic

  • In the mid-seventies, Trappist Abbot Thomas Keating asked the monks, "‘Could we put the Christian tradition into a form that would be accessible to people . . . who have been instructed in an Eastern technique and might be inspired to return to their Christian roots if they knew there was something similar in the Christian tradition?"’ (Intimacy with God, 15). Frs. William Menniger and M. Basil Pennington took up the challenge, and centering prayer is the result. In a few short years it has spread all over the world.

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