Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1947-05-11
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Australia
Breve biografia: David Johnson is a Member of Queensland Regional Meeting of the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. David is a geologist with both industry and academic experience, and wrote The Geology of Australia, specifically for the general public. He has a long commitment to nonviolence and opposing war and the arms trade, and has worked with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. David delivered the 2005 Backhouse Lecture to Australia Yearly Meeting on Peace is a Struggle. He was part of the work to establish the Silver Wattle Quaker Centre in Australia in 2010.

There is a VIAF record for this author BUT Wikipedia link in VIAF are incorrect, and belong to the American Swimmer "David Charles Johnson".

Amazon's Look-inside-the-Book for Geology of Australia shows Library of Australia CIP data as "Johnson, D.P. (David Pete)"

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Surrendering into Silencde: Quaker Prayer Cycles di David Johnson

The traditional Quaker experience is that the Spirit of God communicates directly to each and every person, especially when we spend time in silence, and is experienced mainly as an Inward Light in the conscience. Readers are urged to sit and feel for the underlying spiritual message of these written experiences of our Quaker ministers and elders as well as of the selected excerpts from the Scriptures.

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PAFM | Oct 26, 2020 |

A Quaker Prayer Life di David Johnson

"This short book, 67 pages of actual text, is an articulate, lyrical, and inspirational guide to the prayer of inward silence and stillness as practiced in the Quaker tradition. It is a practical book rather than theological or argumentative. That is to say it is an actual manual that individuals can use to put this type of prayer into practice. For Quakers, it is a great resource. For non-Quakers it is a valuable addition to the practice of contemplation which you may want to integrate into your own contemplative practice.

The author, David Johnson, by using numerous quotations from early Quaker sources, places the prayer of inward silence at the heart of the Quaker tradition. Johnson has clearly spent much time with these early sources and is able to present the essence of the method of the prayer of inward silence in a way that is accessible. His writing is easy to follow, clear, and the instructions will benefit both newcomers and those who have engaged in this style of prayer for many years." - Jim F. Wilson, on Amazon.… (altro)

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LloydLeeWilson | 1 altra recensione | May 1, 2017 |

A Quaker Prayer Life di David Johnson

So: Do Quakers pray? Is meditation prayer? Is waiting worship prayer? These are the questions I was thinking about when I began this book. Johnson collected a wide variety of primary sources discussing Inner Light and the benefits of waiting on the Divine, but I felt the book wasn't addressing my questions until the "Appendix--Techniques That Some Have Found Helpful."

Johnson clearly put much time and effort into assembling this book, but I am driven to ask him: "What canst thou say?" I hope he will mature as a writer and become brave enough to tell us!

Even with this criticism this book is well worth reading. Four stars, easily.
Had I read the book remembering the actual title, "A Quaker Prayer LIFE" I would have read it with a different slant. So, for my mistake, I have upgraded it to 4.5 stars.… (altro)

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kaulsu | 1 altra recensione | May 4, 2014 |

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