Reawakenings by Thomas Keating

by Thomas Keating

In this book, Father Keating examines key events in the ministry of Jesus, the important parables that were recorded, and the many celebrations of his presence.

Genres: Religion

Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Keating entered the Cistercian Order in Valley Falls, Rhode Island in January, 1944. He was appointed Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado in 1958, and was elected abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusetts in 1961. He returned to Snowmass after retiring as abbot of Spencer in 1981, where he established a program of ten-day intensive retreats in the practice of Centering Prayer, a contemporary form of the Christian contemplative tradition.

He is one of three architects of Centering Prayer, a contemporary method of contemplative prayer, that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in 1975. Frs. William Menninger and Basil Pennington, also Cistercian monks, were the other architects.
n 1984, Fr. Thomas Keating along with Gustave Reininger and Edward Bednar, co-founded Contemplative Outreach, Ltd., an international, ecumenical spiritual network that teaches the practice of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, a method of prayer drawn from the Christian contemplative tradition. Contemplative Outreach provides a support system for those on the contemplative path through a wide variety of resources, workshops, and retreats.
Fr. Keating currently lives at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final sentence is beautiful.

[Frank · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this book. I have always thought highly of Thomas Keating a Monk and priest and founding father of the Centering Prayer movement. But in the very first chapter. He basically says that Jesus did not perform a miracle in the feeding of the 5,000. He passes it off as a cleaver Jesus who got the people to share the food they had and he really did nothing miraculous. It doesn't fit nor track the gospel writing but most of all it places Keating in a very negative position for me and one I can no longer trust. It even places others in his order as questionable. It is too bad because he does offer some very good information in his works but he is now dangerous in my eyes. I no longer recommend his books.