Finding Grace at the Center

Year 1978
Type Book
Genre contemplative spirituality
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers interested in where centering prayer began; a short early statement, not a full guide to the practice.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 1 of 5 light

One of the first published presentations of centering prayer, by Keating with Basil Pennington and Thomas Clarke. Of most interest for the method's beginnings.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 4 of 5
Sociological 1 of 5
Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A short book by Thomas Keating, M. Basil Pennington and Thomas E. Clarke, published by St. Bede's Publications in 1978 (68 pages). Keating and Pennington were Trappist monks of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, two of the three monks who shaped the method that became known as centering prayer, and the book is one of the earliest published presentations of it. Later editions carry the subtitle The Beginning of Centering Prayer (SkyLight Paths, 2002). It belongs to the years before Open Mind, Open Heart (1986), the book in which Keating set out the method at length.

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Catalog IDW.E319A1.X

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