Receiving the Day
Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
Published on 24. September 1999
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-7879-4287-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this examination of the spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted in ancient wisdom. She asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, this volume offers a language of attention, poetry, and celebration. Bass encourages us to re-evaluate our understanding of the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christian practice of knowing time as God's gift. Embraced in this way, time need not be wrestled with each day. Instead, time becomes the habitation of blessing.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 200 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-4287-8 (9780787942878)
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Content
Preface; 1. Experiencing the Fullness of Time; 2. This Is the Day That God Has Made; 3. Receiving This Day; 4. The Sabbath Opens Creation for Its True Future; 5. Keeping This Sabbath; 6. The Circling Year Draws Us Into the Story of God; 7. Living in the Story, This Year; 8. Learning to Count Our Days; References;.