Give Love and Receive the Kingdom: Essential People and Themes of English Spirituality - Hardcover

Ward SLG, Benedicta

 
9781640600973: Give Love and Receive the Kingdom: Essential People and Themes of English Spirituality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1640600973 ISBN 13: 9781640600973
Verlag: Paraclete Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

From the greatest living expert on the history of English spirituality comes the most expansive collection ever published of her work

“Sister Benedicta is uniquely qualified to write on the beauties and subtleties of Anglo-Saxon writing about the Christian life. These wonderfully crafted pieces give an invaluable introduction to this world of thought and prayer and image.” ―Rowan Williams

From the spirituality of Cuthbert, to Bede and the Psalter, Anselm the monastic scholar, and the depths of Julian of Norwich, from twelfth century hermits, through medieval pilgrimage, and by illuminating seventeenth century preachers, this volume is Benedicta Ward’s magnum opus. With a title drawn from the writings of St. Anselm―a beautiful summary of the Christian life―this book is designed to both inspire and educate.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

SISTER BENEDICTA WARD SLG is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She has written a number of books on early monasticism and on the Middle Ages, and is one of the world's leading writers on the legacy of the Desert Fathers. Her published works include books on the Desert Fathers, the Venerable Bede and St Anseim, and on miracles and relics in mediaeval times. She is a member of the Sisters of the Love of God, an Anglican religious community in Oxford.

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&;The message of these writers is certainly not one of ease and comfortableness, but of faith, hope, and love. Only after wrestling with God, like Jacob in the dark, and being like him permanently wounded, can anyone go towards the brother one has hated and say, &;I see your face as the face of God&; (Gen. 33:10). They all used their own life experience, starting where they were, to express the impact on them of the Gospel through self-knowledge and God-knowledge, by submission and repentance, coming closer always to the reality of God in Christ. They spoke out of lives lived within and on behalf of a world as torn and agonizing and filled with doubt as our own. There are many written sources to draw upon in understanding the inner life of our predecessors in these islands. They were human beings like ourselves, and in exploring their journeys we can be refreshed and encouraged in our own.&; &;from the introduction

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Verlag
Paraclete Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1640600973
ISBN 13 
9781640600973
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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