Eyes of the Heart : Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice

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 , she guides readers through a new way of spiritual observation - through the lens of a camera - and in receiving images. not simply taking them.