Ebook {Epub PDF} Amen: What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief by Gretta Vosper

 · Amen. Part Five: In a World in Need Prayer, Vosper says, is not the final answer. What the world needs now is “empact”, the ability to empathically impact others within and beyond our communities and the world around us. We need to get in right relationship with ourselves, our communities, and our planet.  · Vosper doesn't seem to grapple successfully of whether prayer has any future in our world, nor does she explore if prayer is, and always has, been a waste of time. The book is an exercise in tap-dancing, with lots of "ifs, buts and maybes ". It's as /5.  · Amen: What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief: Author: Gretta Vosper: Publisher: Harper Collins, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects.

Amen: What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief by Gretta Vosper. Paperback consider the idea of praying regularly as nothing more than a waste of time. In Amen, Gretta Vosper examines these diverse positions in light of the harsh realities of unanswered prayer, the secular critique of supernatural intervention, and the need for a. In Amen, Gretta Vosper, United Church minister and author of the controversial bestseller With or Without For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. JW: From Amen: What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief (p ), you say: Prayer is a contract for hope, not results When we enter into prayer, we become a participant in that story, a party to its contractual promise, and we can be deeply, powerfully, physically, and emotionally soothed as a result.

Amen. Part Five: In a World in Need Prayer, Vosper says, is not the final answer. What the world needs now is “empact”, the ability to empathically impact others within and beyond our communities and the world around us. We need to get in right relationship with ourselves, our communities, and our planet. In Amen, Gretta Vosper, United Church minister and author of the controversial bestseller With or Without For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. Vosper doesn't seem to grapple successfully of whether prayer has any future in our world, nor does she explore if prayer is, and always has, been a waste of time. The book is an exercise in tap-dancing, with lots of "ifs, buts and maybes ". It's as if she can't nail down her own views on the subject.