Living with the Mind of Christ
by Stefan Gillow Reynolds, DLT, £12.99
Contemplative Christianity is an obvious precursor of modern “mindfulness,” suggests Stephen Reynolds, but it has been somewhat occluded of late thanks, in part, to creeping secularism. He presents us with the intriguing proposition that now may be precisely the right time for secular mindfulness to be brought into close contact with Christianity at its most profound.
Reynolds pays due homage to the long genealogy of mysticism, demonstrating how it covertly seeds what we have come to recognise as secular mindfulness today – an essentially therapeutic practice addressing issues of mental health and wellbeing in a world which often seems to work against these attributes.
