Adapting the monastic practice of "lectio divina" (sacred reading) into a form of "visio divina" (sacred seeing), spiritual director and Benedictine oblate Paintner invites readers to a new way of viewing the world through the lens of a camera.
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 introduced on her popular website Abbey of the Arts and in her book The ArtistA fs Rule. She considers how a camera can enable one to see with A gthe eyes of the heart.A h