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Author Plekon, Michael, 1948- author.

Title Uncommon prayer : prayer in everyday experience / Michael Plekon.

Publication Info. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prayer in many places -- The prayer of theologians and others: Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Heather Havrilesky, and Sara Miles -- The prayer of a hermit: Thomas Merton -- The prayer of poets: Mary Oliver, Christian Wiman, and Mary Karr -- The prayer of forgetting and remembering: a list and a map -- The prayer of darkness: Barbara Brown Taylor -- The prayer of care for those in need: Maria Skobtsova and Dorothy Day -- The prayer of pirogi making and other food adventures: the communion of community -- The prayer of the classroom: encounter and listening -- The prayer of one's life: Paul Evdokimov and Seraphim of Sarov -- The prayer of contemplation and action: Richard Rohr -- The prayer of incarnation.
Summary In Uncommon Prayer: Prayer in Everyday Experience, Michael Plekon wants to change our minds on what constitutes prayer. In doing so, he makes a theological claim that to understand different aspects of the Christian life as prayer, one encourages everyday life to be understood as carrying religious import; prayer and the religious life are not restricted to special places and times, but are open to all believers at all times. Plekon examines the works of diverse authors, including many who have challenged the status quo of institutional churches. He asks us to listen to what poets, writers, activists, and others tell us about how they pray at work and at home, with colleagues, family, and friends, in all the experiences of life, from joy to suffering, sadness to hope. Among them are Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Heather Havrilesky, Sara Miles, Thomas Merton, Mary Oliver, Christian Wiman, Mary Karr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Dorothy Day, Maria Skobtsova, Paul Evdokimov, Seraphim of Sarov, and Richard Rohr. Plekon argues that prayer encompasses a much wider variety of activity than formal and liturgical prayers and that, by recognizing such aspects of prayer, the believer is made more receptive to transformative aspects of prayerful attitudes.
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Subject Prayer -- Christianity.
Prayer -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Plekon, Michael, 1948- Uncommon prayer. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016 9780268100001 (DLC) 2016023749
ISBN 9780268100032 (electronic book)
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9780268100018 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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