Receiving the Day
Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
Published on 26. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-0-7879-5647-9 (ISBN)
Description
This title invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. It 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, "Receiving the Day" 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.
Reviews / Votes
"With wisdom, clarity, and sacred practicality, Dorothy Basschanges our relationship with Time. It needn't control us. Rather,
the day, the week, and the year are each an opportunity for us to
shape our lives in the peace and kindness of God. God's story
becomes our story. This is a book of genuine insight and gentle
leadership. Let it turn your calendar from a taskmaster into a gift
from the Creator for creation and for you." (Walter Wangerin Jr.,
author, The Book of God)
"Those who struggle with pressures and limits of time--that is, all
of us! --will find this book a rich resource to be tasted and
tried. This deeply spiritual book dramatically reorients the heart
of the reader . . . challenging our time-obsessed society and
teaching the wisdom of religious practices." (Bonnie J.
Miller-McLemore, author, And Also a Mother: Work and Family As
Theological Dilemma)
"A profoundly useful book. . . . It reminds us forcibly that we are
embodied creatures gifted by God with time too precious to fritter
or work away. In its recommendations for healing our relationship
to time it is often unsettlingly revolutionary, frequently
subversive of our secular culture, and always full of Dorothy
Bass's honest and generous reflections on her own life. It is a
pleasure to recommend it." (Roberta Bondi, author, A Place to Pray:
Reflections on the Lord's Prayer and Memories of God)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-5647-9 (9780787956479)
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Person
DOROTHY C. BASS, editor of Practicing Our Faith and a historian of American religion, is director of the Valparaiso University Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.
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.