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Eyes of the Heart

by Christine Valters Paintner
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In this first book to explore photography as a spiritual practice from a Christian perspective, Christine Valters Paintner builds on the process of contemplative creativity she introduced online at Abbey of the Arts and in her book The Artist’s Rule. She considers how a camera can help readers open “the eyes of the heart.”More than a book on photographic technique, Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice is about cultivating photography as a spiritual practice.



Adapting the monastic practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) into a form of visio divina (sacred seeing), spiritual director and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner invites readers to a new way of viewing the world—through the lens of a camera. Paintner guides readers through six themes connecting the medium of photography with the Christian spiritual life.



Each theme provides a photographic journey in which the reader does not simply take images, but receives images and learns to see with “the eyes of the heart” (Eph 1:18). Photos by the author are included.



Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Seeing with Eyes of the Heart

2. Practices and Tools to Cultivate Vision

3. The Dance of Light and Shadow

4. What Is Hidden and What Is Revealed?

5. The Symbolic Significance of Color

6. What Is Mirrored Back?

7. Discovering the Holy within Us

8. Seeing the Holy Everywhere

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

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