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Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 9 THE GIFT OF BEING
Lectio Divina the Sacred Art - 9 THE GIFT OF BEING
by Christine Valters Painter
THE GIFT OF BEING The fourth movement of lectio is called contemplatio, which is Latin for “contemplation.” While the whole process of lectio divina is considered contemplative prayer, contemplatio is the culmination of the previous three movements and the time when we enter more…
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
Lectio Divina - Abbreviations and Introduction
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Abbreviations and Introduction With these few elementary notes on lectio divina, we hope to have provided readers with an opportunity to renew or develop a taste for a way of reading Scripture which is as old as the church itself, and which has deep roots in Judaism. I don’t thin…
Lectio Divina - Challenges during lectio divina
Lectio Divina - Challenges during lectio divina
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Challenges during lectio divina There is no doubt that this primacy of holiness and prayer is inconceivable without a renewed listening to the word of God . . . It is especially necessary that listening to the word of God should become a life-giving encounter, in the ancient and …
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
Lectio Divina - God's word and scripture
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
God’s Word and Scripture In the first two chapters of this book I offered some reflections in answer to the question, ‘Why spiritual exegesis?’ In the chapters to come, we will ask who should do lectio divina and look at how and where it is done. Before we turn to this topic, we …
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
Lectio Divina - How the bible has been read
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
How the Bible has been read As we continue to describe an approach to Scripture that can lead us to an encounter with Christ, God’s definitive Word to humanity, it will help to look very briefly at the different ways people have read the Bible over the course of its history…
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
Lectio Divina - Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today? I have spoken about Origen at some length because he is the classic representative of a tradition of interpretation that ‘was the formula for Christian biblical exegesis as it was practised without interruption until the sixtee…
Lectio Divina - Lectio divina: foundations and practice
Lectio Divina - Lectio divina: foundations and practice
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Lectio divina: foundations and practice We have given a brief overview of what lectio divina is and what makes it possible. We are now ready to look at the ways in which this prayerful, ecclesial method of reading the Bible is both traditional and contemporary…
Lectio Divina - Listening
Lectio Divina - Listening
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Listening If we want our time spent with the Bible to be productive, we need to listen intensely, with a listening heart (lev shomea, 1 Kings 3.9). The entire Bible is predicated on the fact that God speaks and people listen. People in the Bible walk by faith and not by sight, be…
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
Lectio Divina - Series Foreword
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
Series Foreword To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but ve…
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
Lectio Divina - The room and the keys
by SPCK - Enzo Bianchi
The room and the keys The Hebrew has passed on a beautiful tradition to us; it has to do with divine Scripture in its entirety. According to this man, all of divinely inspired Scripture, because of the obscurity that is in it, can be compared to many locked rooms in a house. Next…
Lectio Divina - The whole Bible as a unity