Flourishing Imagination, Sound Theology

This piece is about Imaginative Contemplation, sometimes known as Visualisation Meditation or, if you are a Catholic, Ignatian Prayer (of which more later). Normally I am a hardcore contemplation kind of person. That is, I wait upon God using nothing but the bare word or silence. However, if you are going to commit to devoting …

Imaginative Prayer, Dark Contemplation

When He sat down at table with them, He took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and offered it to them; whereupon their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and with that, He disappeared from their sight.(Luke 24:30-31) The visible Jesus who accompanied the disciples to Emmaus was less comprehensible to them than the …