David Torkington
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David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker, who specializes in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology.
David Torkington
6M ago
This book on Prayer, written by David Torkington, is a precious help for all who seriously desire to pray in a godly manner and to live a life of grace-filled supernatural union with God. This book does not whitewash the evidence of the real historical situation in which Catholics are currently living, and this is ..read more
David Torkington
6M ago
In a talk that I have just recorded in a series I am giving on prayer, I tell how, as the Director of the Diocesan Retreat and Conference Centre in London, I handed out an anonymous questionnaire to priests who attended the courses from 1972 to 1981. I was horrified to discover that no priest ..read more
David Torkington
9M ago
A rare and ancient book on mystical theology that was so small and dishevelled that the censors must have overlooked it in the noviciate library, gave me the advice that I needed. “When sweet meditation” it said, “leads you into dark contemplation, be sure that you give to your new prayer exactly the same time ..read more
David Torkington
10M ago
The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek and it means to be wrapped in God. The first part of the spiritual adventure on which we have embarked leads us onwards to be wrapped in God when meditation reaches its climax. But this is only first enthusiasm that reaches its high point in what I have ..read more
David Torkington
11M ago
A famous Benedictine mystical writer, William of St Thierry, who was a personal friend and follower of St Bernard, said, “You will never love someone unless you know them, but you will never really know them unless you love them”. We can only come to know God in such a way that we can love ..read more
David Torkington
11M ago
Editors do not like repetition or self-indulgence, nor for that matter do readers. However, I am not a novelist trying to entertain, but a teacher trying to make known the Good News. But it has been so watered down and diluted, that it is only Good News for those who want to live it superficially ..read more
David Torkington
11M ago
Many of the great theologians and scripture scholars who preceded and had such an influence on the Second Vatican Council had for the historical reasons that I have shown, been deprived of mystical spirituality in their training. Unfortunately, therefore, it played little if any part in that Council. There was another reason too that reinforced ..read more
David Torkington
1y ago
The Resurrection, means that Jesus has been swept up out of the world of space and time in which he lived before, not to leave us alone, but to be closer to us than ever before, as he promised ‘even to the end of time.’ Before the Resurrection Jesus was limited by the physical body into which ..read more
David Torkington
1y ago
I do not believe that the Enlightenment could have taken off at the beginning of the seventeenth century if the Reformation had not taken place at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The reformers encouraged their followers to doubt everything that they thought they knew about the faith that had been thrust on them and ..read more
David Torkington
1y ago
The new activity centred congregations founded in and after the sixteenth century were in such a hurry to get out into the fray that they were not fully equipped for the task ahead of them. They were over eager to win back the Church from the Protestant heresy, win for the Church new converts, evangelise  ..read more