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Praying Like the Catholics?
Dyck, A.E.
2017
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Dyck, A. E. (2017). Praying Like the Catholics? Enriching Canadian Mennonite Brethren Sprituality through Spiritual Direction, Lectio Divina, and the Taizé Community.
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x TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS ……….…….……... v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……….………... viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ……….……….. x Chapters: INTRODUCTION ………... 1
1. LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY MENNONITE BRETHREN SPIRITUALITY: ISSUES AND QUESTIONS ………... 20
Transformation: Initial Requirement with Ongoing Effects ………..……….…… 21
The Word of God: The Authority for Experiencing Transformation ……….…… 31
Praise and Worship: Encountering God Together ……….…….…… 42
Summary ……….…… 55
2. EXPERIENCES OF CONVERSION AMONG MENNONITE BRETHREN …………... 58
The Beginning of New Life ……….…… 59
The Overflow of Renewal ……….……. 65
A Routinized Experience ……….….. 73
Reducing the Pattern ……….….. 81
Summary ……….…… 89
3. EXPERIENCES OF SCRIPTURE READING AMONG MENNONITE BRETHREN .…….. 92
Communal Contexts for Conversion ……….……. 92
Authoritative Instruction ……….…… 100
Scholarly Methods ……….…. 110
Summary ……….… 118
4. EXPERIENCES OF SINGING AMONG MENNONITE BRETHREN ……….. 122
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Choral Expressions of Life with God ……….… 130
Valuing Art and Heart ……….… 136
Summary ……….…….… 149
5. IGNATIAN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CONVERSION ……… 152
Preface: Notes for Spiritual Directors ……….… 155
Week One: Initial and Ongoing Confession for Interior Knowledge ……… 161
Week Two: Imitating Christ with Allegiance and Discernment ……….… 168
Week Three: Life-changing Encounters with Christ in His Passion ……….. 174
Week Four: Joyful Resurrection Life for the World with Love ……….. 179
Ignatian Conversion ………. 185
Ignatian Spiritual Direction Among Mennonite Brethren: Encountering and Responding to God ……… 186
Summary ……….………. 197
6. BENEDICTINE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SCRIPTURE READING ……….. 203
Obedience as Listening: Fundamental Humility ……….… 205
Divine Rhythms: Prayer, Work, and Reading ……… 212
Community Life: Disciplines for Discipleship ………... 221
Hospitality: Love and Grace ………... 230
Benedictine Scripture Reading ……… 237
Benedictine Lectio Divina Among Mennonite Brethren: Hearing the Spirit for Transformed Living ………... 238
Summary ………... 249
7. TAIZÉ CONTRIBUTIONS: SINGING AND LIVING TOGETHER ………... 253
Simplicity for Reconciliation: Foundations ……….... 255
Provisionality: New Community Challenges ………. 262
Inner Life, and Global Communion: Wellsprings ……….. 275
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Taizé Influences Among Mennonite Brethren ……….….. 286
Summary ………. 293
CONCLUSION ……….... 298
