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An exchange of letters on prayer between British diplomat Mark Allen and Carmelite nun Ruth Burrows. 'I had to read some books, looking for help. Some set out to teach how to pray. I was very interested in these because they appeared to offer to take the problem head on. But somehow they didn't. They offered techniques about how to sit quietly and about some people finding it helpful to create a ""praying corner"" in the home. All this seemed like other people's Christmases - nice, of course, but happening at arm's length. At a deeper level, I had a horse sense that concentrating on creating a state which I might enjoy and be able to say I had mastered, I could not accept that there wasn't something more than this to prayer.' Thus Mark Allen, on his own view of the problem of prayer at the time when he first met Ruth Burrows. The friendship that followed led to a correspondence and, in due course, led to this book - to these Letters on Prayer, in which cant and technique and simple nostrums are eschewed, but prayer and faith are discussed both in depth and in a language we can all understand.

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Author:   Sir Mark Allen ,  Ruth Burrows OCD
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Sheed & Ward Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.159kg
ISBN:  

9780722049303

ISBN 10:   0722049307
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   09 January 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

I What is Prayer? II Relationship the key III Faith IV Seriousness about the natural ground of faith V Scripture VI Faith and fidelity VII Affirming objective truth VIII A knowledge which is lived IX The test of charity X Petitionary prayer XI Desire and motive in prayer XII Petitionary prayer XIII Methods and Distractions XIV Prayer and Liturgy XV Personhood and self-surrender XVI Prayer - taking us to the edge XVII The barrier of fear and letting go in trust XVIII 'Who is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?' XIX Responding to the holy spirit XX Conversion and conviction XXI Immortality and our choice XXII Accepting purification XXIII Reassurance and communication XXIV Consolations and where God reveals his will XXV Consolations, hearing the word and the demands of love XXVI Hope - patience in waiting in faith XXVII The road so far XXVIII Faith and accepting God's love XXIX Prayer is faith XXX Prayer and love XXXI A living love - a living prayer

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Mark Allen studied Arabic at Oxford and worked in the Foreign Service 1973-2004. He served in the UAE, Egypt and Jordan and his work took him all over the Arab world. He is a special advisor to BP plc and a senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was made CMG in 2002 and knighted in 2005. Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite Nun from Quidenham in Norfolk, UK. She is the author of a number of bestselling books including Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Essence of Prayer.

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