Rooted in God: Personal Prayer as the Soil of Ministry

WYP2636H
Summary
This course focuses on personal contemplative prayer as essential for our relationship with God and the soil out of which healthy and effective ministry grows. The course covers Biblical teaching on prayer; the contemplative tradition arising from the early desert fathers and mothers; spirituality, theology and psychology of prayer; and various Christian traditions of prayer including lectio divina, Ignatian prayer, other forms of scripture prayer, centering prayer, Christian meditation, and the awareness examen.The course concludes with suggestions for planting and growing a prayer-based parish ministry.
Course Syllabus
Session Offered
Winter 2021
Day
Sun
Time
01:00 pm ~ 08:00 pm
Schedule Notes
This class will be taught over 5 Saturdays
Discipline
Pastoral Theology
Online
No
Teaching Method
Lectures
Credits
1