Lectio divina: die Kunst der geistlichen Lesung
Previous publications include The Medieval Saints' Lives: Spiritual Renewal and Old French Literature (Lexington, KY: French Forum, 1995), and The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature, with Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ...
This is not simply a book about how to approach the Bible, because Scripture ultimately wants to lead us beyond itself, to the truth and mystery of Christ that can never be captured fully in the written word.
The book also explores ways of bringing lectio into scripture study and integrating lectio into busy lives.
practice of lectio divina, and we can now more confidently assess the persistence ofthe associated spiritual culture (e.g., in bernard of Clairvaux's sermons and in guigo ii's Ladder ofMonks) long after the original constraints had been ...
The text offered here presents in an easy-to-read and systematic way the "meaning" and the "steps" involved in the practice of lectio divina.