
Wounded in Spirit
A 25-Day Illustrated Advent Devotional for the Grieving with Scriptures and Stories Drawn from the Works and Lives of Artists, Poets, and Theologians
David Bannon(Author)
Paraclete Press
Published on 30. October 2018
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-64060-145-1 (ISBN)
Description
Depression and suicides spike at Christmas, as loneliness and the memories of lost loved ones invade the background cheer. My own father died in mid-December, before his twenty-fourth birthday, an untimely death that forever cast a pall over our family's Christmases. We know, all of us, the dissonance of which Simeon spoke to Mary: of love splattered with blood, of consolation that proves diffused and fleeting. Art brings that dissonance to the foreground, with a poignancy that wounds the spirit like a sword.
--Philip Yancey, from the foreword
--Philip Yancey, from the foreword
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Language
English
Place of publication
Orleans
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64060-145-1 (9781640601451)
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David Bannon is the author of two previous books on grief: Wounded in Spirit: Advent Art and Meditations (Paraclete Press, 2018) and Songs on the Death of Children: Selected Poems from Kindertotenlieder (Toplight/McFarland, 2022). He taught college for many years and has been interviewed on The Discovery Channel, A&E, The History Channel, NPR, Fox News, and in The Wall Street Journal. David and his wife currently live in South Carolina.