Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809148677)

Now in a new edition, this thought-provoking book by popular author Richard Rohr offers a critique of religion as a system that often creates an alternative, pious world without really challenging oppression, materialism, and sectarianism in our modern world. Religion, he says, without this contemplative stance, is often part of the problem. Drawing from Jesus' parable of the rich man, Rohr believes that religion can only rediscover itself as a transformational system if it passes through the eye of a needle, if it overcomes its own temptation to power, wealth, and fundamentalism. A true contemplative stance crosses boundaries, is not concerned with who's in and who's out. It is not a worthiness competition. In fact, the accessibility of the contemplative awareness to all is, Rohr believes, the key to the Gospel message: The kingdom of heaven is hidden in plain sight. +

Author: Richard Rohr
ISBN-10: 0809148676
ISBN-13: 9780809148677
Publisher: Paulist Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.42w x 0.29d