{"id":494,"date":"2007-05-22T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2007\/05\/22\/christian-mysticism\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:40:53","slug":"christian-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/christian-mysticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian mysticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my friend Scott on the phone the other day and I mentioned some books I thought he might like reading. Figured I&#8217;d archive the list here for easy reference. This is definitely not a comprehensive list, just a list of books that have been helpful to me. There&#8217;s another list of books that I&#8217;d <em>like<\/em> to read, but that&#8217;s another post&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/lawrence\/practice.html\">Online version is here<\/a> but if you get hardcopy, be sure to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0940232014\">version with the Frank Laubach essays.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Testament-Devotion-Thomas-R-Kelly\/dp\/0060643617\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-0144767-8920066?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1179897776&#038;sr=8-1\">A Testament of Devotion<\/a> by Thomas Kelly<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Divine-Conspiracy-Dallas-Willard\/dp\/0006281141\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3\/002-0144767-8920066?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1179897888&#038;sr=1-3\">The Divine Conspiracy<\/a> by Dallas Willard (marginally mystical, but awesome nonetheless)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebration-Discipline-Path-Spiritual-Growth\/dp\/0060628391\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-8377349-4184109?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1179898333&#038;sr=1-1\">Celebration of Discipline<\/a> by Richard Foster<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t go wrong with either Henri Nouwen or Thomas Merton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everything-Belongs-Gift-Contemplative-Prayer\/dp\/0824519957\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-8377349-4184109?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1179898636&#038;sr=1-1\">Everything Belongs<\/a> by Richard Rohr<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/ugolino\/flowers.html\">The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/kempis\/imitation.html\">Imitation of Christ<\/a> by Thomas a Kempis<\/li>\n<li>Lots more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/index\/mysticism.html\">mysticism category of CCEL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are so many others I&#8217;d like to list, but some are hard to find. Maybe another list another day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my friend Scott on the phone the other day and I mentioned some books I thought he might like reading. Figured I&#8217;d archive the list here for easy reference. This is definitely not a comprehensive list, just a list of books that have been helpful to me. There&#8217;s another list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-7Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}