Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush
Overview
Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature. In Lectio Matters, respected spiritual director Mary Margaret Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and lower our brow to the ground.
Top Highlights
“There are more voices and more senses in inspired literature, but these four voices (literal, symbolic, moral, mystical) received by four senses (literal, allegorical, moral, anagogical) will provide a little method to go deeply and devoutly into contemplative prayer.” (Page xxix)
“One of the pillars of spiritual teaching in Eastern Christianity is deification (Greek: theosis” (Page xi)
“Lectio divina is a sustained immersion into a revelatory text” (Page xxv)
“The goal of lectio divina is to indeed become that living offering to God through” (Page xxxi)
“The spiritual senses do not develop unless we discipline the carnal senses.30” (Page 171)