A Hunger for God: Ten Approaches to PrayerWilliam A. Barry, Kerry A. Maloney A Hunger for God: Ten Approaches to Prayer gathers some of the best essays from tow years of a public series on prayer at Boston College. The authors, representing a variety of academic disciplines, probe the mysteries and possibilities of prayer for person who year to find God. |
Contents
The Universe at Prayer What Does It Mean to Pray? | 1 |
Ignatian Prayer | 10 |
A Jesuit Looks at Jesuit Prayer | 11 |
Ignatian Prayer from a Womans Perspective | 18 |
Women and Spirituality | 19 |
Ignatian Spirituality | 23 |
Spiritual Exercises | 24 |
Ignatius Images and Experience | 25 |
Changing Images of God Throughout a Life of Prayer | 67 |
The Drama That Is Prayer A Psychoanalytic Interpretation | 76 |
The Freudian Critique of Prayer | 78 |
The Contribution of the NeoPsychoanalytic Movements | 79 |
The Interrupted and Yet Completed Life of Etty Hillesum | 82 |
Prayer in Many Places | 97 |
Thoughts About Science and Prayer | 98 |
Prayer and Work | 117 |
Conclusion | 33 |
Ignatian Contemplation The Use of Imagination in Prayer | 34 |
Development Through Prayer | 44 |
Prayer and the Stories We Use to Imagine Our Lives | 45 |
Praying Through the NonChristian | 130 |
Notes | 143 |
Contributors | 148 |
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