Overview
'A holy place...is a place that becomes a ""gateway to heaven""', writes Chris Cook, 'a place in which we are aware of the presence of God.' These places may be geographical or architectural, or they may be metaphorical: places of loss, or achievement, or transition. This book explores prayer in holy spaces: physical places where we can go to be nearer to God. It is focused on one particular place - Durham Cathedral (voted the country's best-loved building) - but it is designed to enable the reader to explore prayer in other holy places also. It is a practical guide to prayer which takes into account different personality types as well as the physical environment, and uses all of these to help the reader to draw closer to God.
Full Product Details
Author: The Revd Professor Christopher C.H. Cook (Durham University, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Mowbray
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781906286200
ISBN 10: 1906286205
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 May 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Language: English
Reviews
'You don't have to visit Durham Cathedral to enjoy Chris Cook's Finding God in a Holy Place... This is more than a celebration of one place and a guide to responding to other places and states.'--,
Selected by Church of England Newspaper as 'a perfect book for summer reading', June 2010 A book to revive a tired soul or breathe life into a dead one. Northern Echo, June 2010 --, --Sanford Lakoff 'You don't have to visit Durham Cathedral to enjoy Chris Cook's Finding God in a Holy Place... This is more than a celebration of one place and a guide to responding to other places and states.'--Sanford Lakoff 'I think it is an intellectual's handbook and a particular personal spiritual guide to Durham Cathedral... He will touch many who know the building well... Professor Cook has managed to give the reader a great deal of rewarding background to the spiritual life, architecture and history of the building.'--Sanford Lakoff
A book to revive a tired soul or breathe life into a dead one. Northern Echo, June 2010 --, Selected by Church of England Newspaper as 'a perfect book for summer reading', June 2010 'You don't have to visit Durham Cathedral to enjoy Chris Cook's Finding God in a Holy Place... This is more than a celebration of one place and a guide to responding to other places and states.'--Sanford Lakoff --Sanford Lakoff 'I think it is an intellectual's handbook and a particular personal spiritual guide to Durham Cathedral... He will touch many who know the building well... Professor Cook has managed to give the reader a great deal of rewarding background to the spiritual life, architecture and history of the building.'--Sanford Lakoff
Author Information
Christopher C.H. Cook is Emeritus Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health, in the Institute of Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK
