POEM

FindCenter AddIcon
Book Image

Ave generosa

By Hildegard von Bingen
Poems Author Image

This twelfth-century hymn pays homage to the divine communion between God and unadulterated souls, as symbolized by his blessing of the Virgin Mary.

In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.

Read on www.poetry-chaikhana.com

FindCenter Video Image

The Cloud of Unknowing: A Book of Contemplation

Evelyn Underhill was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Her legacy as a pivotal figure in Christian mysticism endures today.

Book
Evelyn Underhill
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition

With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America.

Book
James H. Cone
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Life of the Spirit: And the Life of Today

In untechnical language, the author indicates the characteristic experiences which are fundamental to the spiritual life in all great religions and the way in which these express themselves in the modern world-view of history, modern psychological inquiry, institutional religion, education, and the...

Book
Evelyn Underhill
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The School of Charity

These meditations, based upon the principle articles of the Nicene Creed, were originally presented by Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941) at a retreat she conducted at her beloved Pleshy, a small village in England that was the site of her conversion to the Christian faith.

Book
Evelyn Underhill
1991
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Deep Is the Hunger

Meditations by Howard Thurman on timeless religious themes: A Sense of History, A Sense of Self, A Sense of Presence, and For the Quiet. Originally written for the bulletin at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco.

Book
Howard Thurman
1978
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Sermons on the Parables

Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was one of the finest thinkers and most influential preachers of his era. Yet Thurman's importance goes well beyond his influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the freedom struggle.

Book
Howard Thurman, David B. Gowler, Kipton E. Jensen
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Way of the Mystics

Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.

Book
Howard Thurman
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Jesus and the Disinherited

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised.

Book
Howard Thurman
1996
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

What Jesus Meant

In what are billed “culture wars,” people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. But in this New York Times-bestselling masterpiece, Garry Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program. He was far more radical than that.

Book
Garry Wills
2007
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageI gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Quote
C. S. Lewis
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Christian Mysticism