Christine Valters Paintner: 10 books
Illuminating the Way
Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Popular author of eight books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner explores how the lives and spirituality of twelve monks and mystics offer distinct patterns of thought that will lead you to a deeper understanding of your strengths and areas of growth...
The Wisdom of the Body
A Contemplative Journey to Wholeness for Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
The distorted view of the perfect female body created by popular culture, television, movies, and the media often causes women to become uncomfortable with their own bodies. Christine Valters Paintner, popular author of nine books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, draws from...
The Soul's Slow Ripening
12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
What does God want for your life?
Christine Valters Paintner, bestselling Catholic author and online abbess for Abbey of the Arts, uses reflections, stories, guided activities, prayer experiences, and a variety of creative arts to help you patiently and attentively listen to God’s invitation.
Everyone...
The Soul of a Pilgrim
Eight Practices for the Journey Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The renowned author of eight books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner takes readers on a new kind of pilgrimage: an inner journey to discover the heart of God. Eight stages of the pilgrim's way--from hearing the call to coming home--are accompanied...
The Artist's Rule
Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Christine Valters Paintner, author of Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire, invites readers to discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection. This twelve-week course draws on the insights and practices of Benedictine spirituality to explore the interplay between contemplation...
The Eyes of the Heart
Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
In this first book to explore photography as a spiritual practice from a Christian perspective, Christine Valters Paintner builds on the process of contemplative creativity she introduced online at Abbey of the Arts and in her book The Artist's Rule. She considers how a camera can help readers open...
Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire
The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Organized around "The Canticle of the Creatures" by St. Francis of Assisi, Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire is the first book to consider the ways in which praying with the natural elements can enliven Christian spiritual life. Teacher, artist, and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner...
by Christine Valters Paintner PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Nurture your inner monk & surrender to the natural grace & rhythm of your hearts deepest longings.The whole world is, in fact, a text of sacred revelation. All experience has the potential to be revelatory, and God is singing one unending song seducing each of our hearts. So the call is to listen, to...
Dreaming of Stones
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired by the poet’s time living in Ireland these readings invite you into deeper ways of seeing the world. They have an incantational quality. Drawing on her...
Desert Fathers and Mothers
Early Christian Wisdom Sayings—Annotated & Explained
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.
The desert fathers and mothers were ordinary Christians living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Arabia who chose to renounce...