Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice
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- Paperback
- Digital (E-Book)
Ave Maria Press
March 25, 2013
978-1933495545
Description
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 “the eyes of the heart.”More than a book on photographic technique, Eyes of the Heart is about cultivating photography as a spiritual practice. Adapting the monastic practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) into a form of visio divina (sacred seeing), spiritual director and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner invites readers to a new way of viewing the world–through the lens of a camera. Paintner guides readers through six themes connecting the medium of photography with the Christian spiritual life. Each theme provides a photographic journey in which the reader does not simply take images, but receives images and learns to see with “the eyes of the heart” (Eph 1:18). Photos by the author are included.
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Supplemental Materials
Virtual Book Tour
Guest Posts
“Tending the Moments” hosted at June Mears Driedger
“Quieting the Mind through Contemplative Photography” hosted at A Photographic Sage
“Contemplative Photography in a Time-Obsessed Culture” hosted at Expressive Prayer
“Planning a Personal Retreat” hosted at A Sacred Journey
“Bless the World with Your Eyes” hosted at Consecrate the Day
“Learning to Trust What Shimmers” hosted at Holy Ordinary
“Seeing Ourselves with Eyes of the Heart” hosted at Ronna Detrick
“Practicing Resurrection through the Eyes of the Heart” hosted at Anam Cara
Audio Interviews with Christine
@ Sacred Life Arts with Dana Reynolds
@ A Congruent Life with Andy Gray
Written Interviews with Christine
Seeing With Eyes of the Heart: A Q&A at Patheos (as part of the Patheos Book Club)
@ A Year of Rejoicing hosted by Louise Gallagher
@ Anam Cara hosted by Tara Owens
@ Faith Squared hosted by Liz Rasmussen
@ Idealawg hosted by Stephanie West Allen
@ Always We Begin Again hosted by Judy Smoot and Michael Landon
@ Catherine Anderson Studio hosted by Catherine Anderson
Reviews and Reflections
@ Spirituality and Practice
@ Image Journal of Religion and the Arts
@ Doc Hollywood by Craig Detweiler (as part of the Patheos Book Club)
@ Living a Holy Adventure by Bruce Epperly (as part of the Patheos Book Club)
@ A Musing Amma by Elizabeth Nordquist (as part of the Patheos Book Club)
@ This Ordinary Adventure by Adam Jeske (as part of the Patheos Book Club)
@ Profoundly Superficial by Annie Wright
@ Find Hope by Mary Benton
@ Shot at Ten Paces by Kate Kennington Steer
@ GodSpace by Christine Sine
@ A Photographic Sage by Patricia Turner
@ Sense of the Faithful by Peg Conway
@ Holy Ordinary with Brent Bill
@ Melanged Magic with Evelyn Jackson
@ Provoking Beauty by Leanne Shawler
Praise for the Book
