To Call on His Name: Perspectives on the Jesus Prayer
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
John Gill’s comprehensive study of the Jesus Prayer considers an ancient mystical prayer practice from the Christian East. He discusses the historical development of the prayer and its basis in scripture, patristic spirituality, theology, and psychology. He also compares the Jesus Prayer with prayer practices in the Christian West, demonstrating various similarities and differences. Having developed within the heart of the Christian tradition, the Jesus Prayer is a personal prayer expressing fundamental Christian faith; it is therefore a prayer which can hold universal appeal to Christians of all denominations. The book also includes guidance for those who want to learn to use the Jesus Prayer as part of their spiritual practice and suggestions for further reading.
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- Considers an ancient mystical prayer practice from the Christian East.
- Discusses the historical development of the prayer.
- Compares the Jesus Prayer with prayer practices in the Christian West.
Modestly sub-titled ‘Perspectives on the Jesus Prayer’ this dense little book is in fact a miniature history of Christian spirituality. … This book would be a mine of information for anyone interested in exploring a new form of prayer and there is an extensive bibliography of more academic studies in the Orthodox prayer tradition.
--Kirsty Anderson, Transforming Ministry
- Title: To Call on His Name: Perspectives on the Jesus Prayer
- Author: John Gill
- Publisher: Sacristy Press
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 198
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781789590708, 1789590701, 9781789590715, 178959071X, 1789590728, 9781789590722
- Resource ID: LLS:CLLHSNMPJSSPRYR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-17T02:02:56Z
John Gill is a semi-retired Australian psychiatrist, having conducted a private practice for over thirty years in general adult psychiatry and more recently, medico-legal practice. He has had a longstanding interest in spirituality and meditation. This has led to experimentation with a variety of meditation practices and a three year study program of Hindu and Buddhist texts in Sanskrit language to obtain a Graduate Diploma of Humanities.
In more recent years, after his discovery of the Jesus Prayer, he felt drawn to Eastern Christianity, and he is now an ordained Deacon in the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Australia and New Zealand, where he serves at the parish of St Peter and Paul at Hampton Park, Melbourne. He combines his ministry in the Church with part-time psychiatric practice. John graduated with a Master of Arts degree MA (Theol.) at the University of Divinity in Melbourne in 2016, and lives in Glen Waverley, Victoria with his family.