Theosony

by Ni Riain, Noirin

• ISBN13: 9781856077231
• ISBN10: 1856077233
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Columba Pr

Summary

Irish spiritual singer and Christian scholar, Noirin Ni Riain proposes a rich imaginative, refreshing new way of listening for and interpreting the Divine 'sound of sheer silence'. From Socrates, through Abraham, Jesus Christ, Patrick to you, the mos

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Theosony And Theology
Two intentions and two premises	p. 14
The Cinderella of the Senses	p. 17
'Reading between the lines'	p. 24
'Singing from the same hymn sheet'	p. 27
Introducing and defining 'Theosony'	p. 31
'Amazing grace, how sweet the sound...'	p. 41
The critical, the obedient, the clairaudient ear and its audience	p. 47
Summary	p. 52
The Human Ear
Biological and Acoustic Facts	p. 56
The Human Ear: a miraculous little apparatus	p. 62
Listening -'a psychological act'	p. 66
Brain/Mind considerations	p. 69
Neurotheology	p. 72
'The grain of the voice'	p. 78
Three theosonic conversion stories	p. 81
Socrates: midwifery and the daimonion	p. 92
Socrates and Christ: Men of the Word	p. 95
theosony and scripture	p. 100
The reader and the voices of the Pages	p. 109
The oral / aural nature of scripture	p. 115
Contingency and continuity	p. 121
'Off by heart'	p. 125
Simone Weil on memorisation	p. 129
Folklore, poetry, storytelling and literacy	p. 133
Towriteistohear-Toread is to hear	p. 139
Theosony -the metaphor	p. 143
Theosonic Scriptural Events	p. 149
'In the beginning was the Word ...'	p. 149
Hearing the Risen Christ	p. 156
Naming and names	p. 161
'The wind/ spirit/breath...'	p. 170
Summary	p. 175
Theosony and Silence
Introduction	p. 178
Towards a phenomenology of silence	p. 183
Silence and Divine Discourse	p. 190
Silence-'Avirtue,have it if you can...'	p. 196
Silence - Thebook-ends of Scripture	p. 200
Summary	p. 205
Theosony and Religious Experience
TheosonicReligious Experience	p. 210
Athreefold classification of Theosonic Religious Experience in Scripture	p. 219
Ten aspects of Theosonic Alertness	p. 231
Conclusion	p. 239
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