A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation

by Martin Laird

Book Overview

"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence."
In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence and sound, and transcends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195378725
• ISBN13: 9780195378726
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.3"