BOOKS
Christine Valters Paintner, PhD is the author of three books (click the links for more details):
Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness now available from Paulist Press, co-authored with Sister Lucy Wynkoop
BOOKS Coming in Winter/Spring 2010:
Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire: The Christian Practice of Praying with the Elements from Ave Maria Press
*To see the Press Kit for this book, please click here*
Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction from Morehouse Publishing (the Spiritual Directors International Imprint Series) co-authored with Betsey Beckman.
REFLECTIVE ART JOURNALS:
A series of booklets available through the Abbey Shop incorporating reflections on the spiritual life with photography, collage, and other art media by Christine Valters Paintner.
Crossing the Threshold: New Year, New Beginnings
Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write
Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
Crossing the Threshold: New Year, New Beginnings
Season by the Sea: A Contemporary Book of Hours
What is Blossoming Within You?
Callings: Becoming Who You Already Are (Sold Out – No longer in print)
Praying With the Elements: Reflections in Word and Image (Sold Out – No longer in print)
ARTICLES: (Click on the article titles for PDF files or web links)
Mandalas (Part One) at Patheos
Mandalas (Part Two) at Patheos
Creating Personal Altars at Patheos
Illuminated Manuscripts at Patheos
Liturgy as a Feast for the Senses at Patheos
Art and Spiritual Practice at Patheos
Beauty and Spirituality at Patheos
Pray with Music: Audio Divina at Patheos
“The Practice of Contemplation as Witness and Resistance”
Appeared in October 2007 issue of The Way, an international journal of contemporary Christian spirituality
“The Relationship Between Spirituality and Artistic Expression: Cultivating the Capacity for Imagining”
Appeared in the Winter 2007 Issue of the UCLA Spirituality and Higher Education Newsletter
Creativity as a Christian Spiritual Practice: Foundations and Explorations for Ministry”
co-authored with Amy Wyatt
Appeared in the 2006 issue of the Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry
“Using the Arts in Discernment”
Appeared in the September 2006 issue of Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
“Responding to Beauty’s Call: The Shape of an Aesthetic Spirituality”
Appeared in October 2005 issue of The Way, an international journal of contemporary Christian spirituality
“Aesthetics as the Connection Between Spiritual Practice and the Cultivation of Virtue in Hildegard of Bingen’s Theology of Music”
Appeared in the Vol 55, Issue 2 (2004) issue of the American Benedictine Review
“La Estetica Como Vinculacion Entre La Practica Espiritual Y El Cultivo De La Virtud En La Teologia De La Musica De Hildegardis De Bingen”
Appeared in the 2004 issue of Cuadernos Monasticos (151)
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