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Praying with the Grain

How your personality affects the way you pray

Pablo Martinez author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SPCK Publishing

Published:20th Jan '12

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Psychiatrist and pastor Dr Pablo Martinez explains how our temperament and personality affect our prayer life.

Why do so many struggle to pray? Dr Pablo Martinez, a medical doctor and psychotherapist, suggests that our basic personality type strongly affects how we pray, and what we pray about. Extroverts may struggle to develop a regular prayer life; introverts will be more likely to set time apart. Thinking types find prayer more satisfactory if accompanied by pen and paper; feeling types may long for intimacy with God; intuitive types tend to be innovators and visionaries, and may have a more mystical bent; sensation types often have a particular capacity for spontaneous prayer; and so on. The purpose of this book is to help us understand, and work with, our own spiritual path.

`A profound, practical and personal book in which the skill of the psychiatrist and the gentleness of the pastor are combined … I cannot imagine any reader failing to be helped by it, as I have been myself.’ -- John Stott

ISBN: 9780857211521

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 14mm

Weight: 198g

176 pages

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